peed off
- idiom
- UK
- I'm really peed off about the way they treated us.
Examples
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She gets peed off if people are late for meetings.
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She was peed off when her plans fell through.
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He was peed off when his computer crashed in the middle of his work.
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I'm really peed off about the delay.
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He was peed off when his computer crashed in the middle of his work.
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I'm really peed off about the way they treated us.
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She gets peed off if people are late for meetings.
Synonyms
Very angry or annoyed
Feeling very angry or annoyed
Antonyms
How Angry
Surface Forms
Morphology
peed + off
The form 'peed off' does not transparently combine the literal meanings of its parts: 'peed' reads as the past of 'pee' (to urinate) and 'off' does not yield a meaning of 'annoyed'. The adjectival meaning 'annoyed' is idiomatic (likely a variant of 'peeved off' or 'pissed off') and cannot be predicted from the constituent words, so it is opaque to learners.
Etymology
Peed off may come from the old word peeve, which meant a small, annoying thing like a pebble in your shoe. When little irritations pile up you feel 'annoyed or angry', so that image helps explain the modern meaning.