piss

1 of 2

verb

pissed; pissing; pisses

intransitive verb

usually vulgar : urinate

transitive verb

usually vulgar : to urinate in or on

piss

2 of 2

noun

1
usually vulgar : urine
2
usually vulgar : an act of urinating
often used with take

Examples of piss in a Sentence

Verb I was so scared I almost pissed my pants.
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My characters are always in the service of pissing people off. Vincent Perella, IndieWire, 10 Oct. 2025 But new faces are going to show up in Edgewater this season — a revolving door of big, splashy, bold characters roll through, piss people off, disrupt our world. Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 10 Oct. 2025 At least the deck crew’s shenanigans are a source of constant amusement to the guests, but Nathan and Sandy are getting pissed. Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 30 Sep. 2025 But in, say, the French Revolution, things got going in part because of the popular unrest and the popular upheavals, but also because there was an inner circle of members of the French nobility who were totally pissed at Louis XVI. Nikki McCann Ramirez, Rolling Stone, 22 Sep. 2025 Which pisses me off, even through my white-hot shame. Allison Lax, Glamour, 15 Sep. 2025 To be honest, I was absolutely pissed at the colleague for calling at such an ungodly hour. R29 Team, Refinery29, 12 Sep. 2025 But those were the offensive issues, which is only one half of the Dolphins’ piss poor debut. Omar Kelly, Miami Herald, 7 Sep. 2025 The Italian photographer Gianni Berengo Gardin, who died in August at age ninety-four, announced his vocation to the world by pissing on his lens. Max Norman, New Yorker, 6 Sep. 2025

Word History

Etymology

Verb

Middle English, from Anglo-French pisser, from Vulgar Latin *pissiare, of imitative origin

First Known Use

Verb

14th century, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense

Noun

14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Time Traveler
The first known use of piss was in the 14th century

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“Piss.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/piss. Accessed 17 Oct. 2025.

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