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piss

piss

81 8.4
An informal rude word for the act of passing urine
  • noun
  • /pɪs/
  • Offensive
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  • We stopped on the way home for Doc to take a piss in the woods.
  • take a piss
  • go for a piss

No, I just go for a garden piss by the tree.

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Examples

  • At work, when you sleep, when you have a piss, we'll be watching.

  • I got to take a piss.

  • No, I just go for a garden piss by the tree.

  • Always try to take a piss before I go out.

    Fiction book (2000)
  • It's not funny, I need to take a piss.

  • I have to get up three times a night to take a piss.

  • - You had to take a piss, didn't you?

  • But I gotta take a piss like you would not believe, Mr. Johansen!

    Fiction book (1999)
  • I went to take a pre-emptive piss, and the entire bathroom upstairs was blacked out.

    Blog text (30)
  • I need to find a bathroom; I really have to take a piss.

Synonyms

pee
vspiss
  • Baby Talk
64 5.6

An act of letting out the body's yellow liquid

is more vulgar and rougher in tone than this childish informal word
leak
vspiss
  • NSFW
42 8.1

An informal word for peeing

is a deliberate vulgar act rather than a passive discharge
pissing
vspiss
  • Offensive
14 9.9

An act of peeing

is the vulgar noun form rather than the verb form
urination
vspiss
13 3.9

Passing urine from the body

is informal and vulgar rather than the formal medical term
peeing
vspiss
1 4.6

To let urine leave your body

is more vulgar and stronger in tone than this neutral term
pipi
vspiss
  • Baby Talk
1 9.9

A childish word children use for pee

is more vulgar and adult in tone compared with this childish word

Antonyms

1 9.7

To keep from peeing for a while

Idioms

piss and vinegar
  • Offensive
3 9.9

A strong feeling of energy and eagerness to do things, sometimes with anger

To need to pee very badly, often after drinking a lot

rest in piss
  • Offensive
9.9

A rude, joking way to show dislike for someone or something that is gone

To be unable to manage even a very simple task because you are very bad at doing things

To spoil someone's good mood by being negative or critical

9.9

To say or do something that spoils other people's enjoyment

To lie to someone in an obvious way while expecting them to believe it

9.9

To have sudden, very bad diarrhea after eating bad food or when feeling very nervous

piss proud
  • NSFW
9.9

Acting like you are better than other people for no reason

A rude British phrase that says someone is very bad at organizing events

Compounds

cat piss
  • Vulgar
3 8.2

A strong, bad smell from cat pee

piss and wind
  • Offensive
1 9.9

Talk that has no useful information

piss-up
  • NSFW
1 9.9

A party where people drink a lot

9.9

A style that mixes fancy, expensive things with cheap or rude items

streak of piss
  • Offensive
9.9

A person who is very afraid and acts in a shameful way

How Formal

to urinate
69 3.3
to pass water
  • UK
7.6
to pee
  • Informal
371 2.6
to take a leak
  • NSFW
41 9.3
piss
  • Offensive
81 8.4

Surface Forms

piss singular
pisses plural

Etymology

Piss is a very old, simple word that comes from the basic sound people used for urinating and it appears in many European languages, like German pissen. So a piss is the short, informal word for 'to urinate'.