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piss

Pronunciation: /pɪs/

The English word “piss” has 9 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. Urine.
  2. The act of urinating.
  3. Alcoholic beverage, especially of inferior quality.
  4. An intensifier.

verb

  1. To urinate.
  2. To discharge as or with the urine.
  3. To achieve easily.
  4. To rain heavily.

interjection

  1. Expresses anger, disappointment or dissatisfaction.

Etymology

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

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