popcorn pisser
- noun
- Offensive
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- Whenever there's a tense moment in a horror film, he's the biggest popcorn pisser in the room.
Examples
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My friend is a total popcorn pisser when it comes to scary films.
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Don't be such a popcorn pisser during the horror movie!
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If you scream at every jump scare, you'll earn the title of popcorn pisser among your friends.
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She laughed so hard during the comedy that everyone called her a popcorn pisser.
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If you scream at every jump scare, you'll earn the title of popcorn pisser among your friends.
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Whenever there's a tense moment in a horror film, he's the biggest popcorn pisser in the room.
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My friend is a total popcorn pisser when it comes to scary films.
Synonyms
A person who complains and gets upset very easily over small things
How Scared
Surface Forms
Morphology
popcorn + pisser
The literal constituents 'popcorn' (a snack) and the colloquial 'pisser' (an ambiguous slang term) give no clear, compositional cue to someone who is easily frightened or overreacts; the relation between snack + slang is not logically or metaphorically predictable. This is a regionally marked slang coinage with an idiosyncratic meaning, so a B1 learner knowing the parts would very likely not infer the intended sense without prior exposure.
Etymology
Popcorn pisser may come from the image of someone at a movie whose popcorn is spilled when they jump at every scare, or who becomes a pisser by laughing or getting so scared they 'wet themselves' a little. So the phrase means someone who is 'easily frightened' or who reacts with 'strong excitement'.