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pissy

pissy

2 9.7
Too small and poor in quality to deserve respect
  • adjective
  • /ˈpɪsi/
  • Offensive
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  • "You mean to tell me, boy, you're making ends meet on some pissy little government paycheck?"
  • pissy little

And so we put a whole bunch together for an hour and then we have all these different hours and some of the most, most pissy of calls.

Examples

  • Sorry that you've had such a pissy experience.

    Blog text (25)

  • See, this isn't about some pissy little competition.

    The Purging Hour (2015)

  • Get yourself a pissy little degree, come up here, and be "Top Guy?"

    Fiction book (1992)

  • Came out a lot stronger than his pissy little statement.

    Blog text (32)

  • They took your life away from you over a stupid, pissy little word.

    The Human Stain (2003)

  • Oh, and don't send that pissy little messenger boy like you did last time.

    Jane Doe (2001)

  • If the pissy little informant was right, there should be two men under that halo.

    Fiction book (1995)

  • And to me, this is pissy little people who have only recently moved into the city and are whining because of the so-called "noise."

    Blog text (10)

  • I got no brief for Sanderson or his pissy rip-off island.

    The Rum Diary (2011)

  • His complaints about the service were really just pissy remarks that no one took seriously.

Synonyms

petty
vspissy
97 3.9

Being mean about small, unimportant things

applies to small size and poor quality rather than only mean attitude
pissant
vspissy
  • Offensive
1 9.9

Not important and meant to insult

focuses also on being small and of poor quality rather than only insignificance
ropy
vspissy
  • UK
9.3

Of very poor quality and not good

adds contempt and smallness beyond merely poor quality

Antonyms

significant
∞ 2.5

Important and big enough to make a difference

valuable
526 2.5

Very useful and important, for example advice or skills

Compounds

pissy bed
  • NSFW
9.9

A bed wet with someone's pee

pissy-pants
  • Offensive
9.9

A person who complains and gets upset very easily over small things

How Worthless

contemptible
  • Offensive
15 7.4
pissy
  • Offensive
2 9.7
measly
  • Informal
29 6.3
insignificant
104 4.1

Surface Forms

pissy positive

Morphology

pissy = piss (opaque) = piss + y

The sense 'contemptibly small or petty' is a pejorative figurative extension whose meaning is not directly inferable from literal 'piss' + -y by an average learner.

Etymology

Pissy comes from the rude word piss, which means 'urine', plus the ending -y that makes adjectives. Because piss was used in slang to mean something worthless, as in piss-poor, pissy came to mean 'contemptibly small' or low quality.