piss

Etymology

From Middle English pisse (noun) and pissen (verb), from Old French pissier, possibly from Vulgar Latin *pīssiāre, probably of echoic origin. Compare Old Norse pissa (“to urinate, piss”).

noun

1. (now vulgar slang, usually uncountable) Urine.
   This toilet is disgusting. There's piss all over the floor.
   There in a puddle of piss sat Princess Fatima, her dress up over her knees, vomit dripping onto her bodice 2005, Richard Connelly Miller, Tanglefoot
2. (vulgar, slang, countable) The act of urinating.
   I'm desperate for a piss!
   But the urinal was safe, no unshielded pissing trough, but a nice, modest urinal, with a wall on each side of you so you could have your privacy. … That was one of the best pisses of my life. 1999, Tin House #2 (→ISBN, Win McCormack, Rob Spillman, Elissa Schappell), page 170
3. (vulgar, slang, countable and uncountable) Alcoholic beverage, especially of inferior quality.
   Let's dash over to Fisher's for a fifth of that one-fifty-one West Indian. We can't drink this piss, it's degrading. 1974, Donald Newlove, The Drunks, page 33
   ‘Want some advice?’ I said. ‘Stay off the piss. You won't want to be handling this kind of thing with a hangover.’ 1985, Helen Garner, Yellow Notebook: Diaries 1978-1987, Text Publishing, published 2022, page 140
4. (mildly vulgar, attributive) An intensifier.
   piss-poor
   Irene went down to her studio and brought the painting upstairs. She leaned it against a wall and then she and Mary contemplated it from across the room. 'It really is piss-ugly,' said Mary with a note of grudging affection in her voice. 1989, Kate Pullinger, When the monster dies, Jonathan Cape
   “You are piss funny, Caolan O'Donnell, you really are.” 2007, C. N. Barton, The Cambridge Diaries: A Tale of Friendship, Love and Economics, Janus Publishing Company Lim, page 417
   Just watched Black Adder Goes Forth. Can I just say Ben Elton is my bloody hero for ever. If it wasn't for him I would still think voting Tory was OK. And he is piss funny ... 2016, Rae Earl, My Mad Fat Diary: A Memoir, St. Martin's Griffin, page 267

verb

1. (intransitive, mildly vulgar) To urinate.
   When I got home I found a drunk pissing in my doorway.
   Roy: The work was fiiine. There was nothing wrong with the work. But they caught him... He pissed in the sink. / Jen: Oh. Oh! / Roy: Yeah... / Jen: Which sink? / Roy: All the sinks. Yeah, he basically went on a pee parade around the house. / Jen: Oh God, I have to fire him. 2008 November 21, Graham Linehan, The IT Crowd, Season 3, Episode 1
2. (transitive, mildly vulgar) To discharge as or with the urine.
   Lately I've been pissing blood.
   If any piss filthy matter, or little scales, or withal the urine have a strong smell, it shews ulceration of the bladder. 1824, Alexander Burnett, The Medical Adviser, →OCLC, page 71
3. (transitive, chiefly Britain, mildly vulgar) To achieve easily.
   "I'll piss this," I thought. "There's only Gary to beat and I beat him easily in both heats." 2018, Carl Fogarty, The World According to Foggy, Hachette UK
4. (transitive, intransitive, mildly vulgar) To rain heavily.
   She spent that night under her sheet of polythene and 'somehow managed to get only half wet', waking up the next morning to find that 'it had absolutely pissed down through the night'. 1989, Christine Dann, Pip Lynch, Wilderness Women: Stories of New Zealand Women at Home in the Wilderness
   Let's face it, they're there for a good stroll on a Sunday afternoon when it's pissing outside. 2002, Will Self, Feeding Frenzy, Penguin UK
   Normally she would have left the car at home and walked to the hotel but it was pissing rain and she didn't want to meet Jeff looking like a drowned rat. 2013, Patricia Scanlan, With All My Love: A Novel, Simon and Schuster, page 102

intj

1. (mildly vulgar) Expresses anger, disappointment or dissatisfaction.
   At times he gets irritable, especially if he believes that something has been misplaced or lost: "Piss oh piss! -- where in the hell does everything go around here!" 1967, Walter Otto Weyrauch, The Law of a Small Group: A Report on the Berkeley Penthouse Experiments with Emphasis on Penthouse V. Parts I and II
   There was nothing left of the sundae except a puddle of white foam muddied by chocolate syrup, with a cherry floating on top. "Oh, piss," she muttered, "the ice cream's melted." 1992, Sandra Brown, Three Complete Novels, Wings
   Fowler was unresponsive when emergency services arrived and was declared dead at the scene. Fowler worked for the mayor's office for the past three years and twice ran unsuccessfully for city council. Police are asking anyone who saw a green Toyota or Honda SUV near the scene of the accident to contact them.' 'Piss!' Melchiori said again. 'He was a friend of mine.' 2014, Michael Wiley, Blue Avenue: First in a noir mystery series set in Jacksonville, Florida, Severn House Publishers Ltd
   Well, piss! I can't leave here now. Billy, call into the room and ask one of the girls to ask the Doc if he can guess how much longer it will be. 2022, Terry McGuin, The Dracula Shark, page 179