piss

[ pis ]

/ pɪs /

Vulgar.

noun

urine.

verb (used without object), pissed, piss·ing.

to urinate.

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CHALLENGE YOURSELF WITH THIS MIDDLE SCHOOL PART OF SPEECH QUIZ!

How well do you know your adjectives from your adverbs? Your preposition from your pronouns? Your interjections from your conjunctions? Let’s put your knowledge of parts of speech to the text! Note: Many of the following questions will ask you to identify the parts of speech “in order.” That means the first word in all capital letters will correspond to the first option in an answer, and so on.

Question 1 of 10

In order, what parts of speech are the words in all capital letters? Alisa was VERY tired, SO she decided to go to bed.

adverb, adverb

adverb, conjunction

adjective, conjunction

TAKE THE QUIZ TO FIND OUT

Idioms for piss

piss away, Slang. to squander; fritter away:

piss off, Slang.

to anger.
to go away; leave (often used imperatively).

take a piss, to urinate.

Origin of piss

1250–1300; Middle English pissen < Old French pissier < Vulgar Latin *pisiāre (imitative)

Words nearby piss

pisistratus, pismire, pismo clam, pisolite, pisolith, piss, piss about, piss artist, piss away, piss off, piss-poor

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British Dictionary definitions for piss away

piss

/ (pɪs) slang /

verb

(intr) to urinate

(tr) to discharge as or in one's urineto piss blood

noun

an act of urinating

urine

Australian beer

on the piss drinking alcohol, esp in large quantities

piece of piss something easily obtained of achieved

take the piss to tease or make fun of someone or something

piss all over to be far superior toa version that pisses all over the original

Word Origin for piss

C13: from Old French pisser, probably of imitative origin

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Idioms and Phrases with piss away

piss away

Squander, waste, as in They've pissed away a fortune on those horses. This term uses piss in the sense of “discharge something as though it were urine.” [Vulgar slang; first half of 1900s]