cat piss
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8.2
- noun
- Vulgar
:
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- We spread out a wool blanket from the days when I had Jake and Jasmine, two calicos, and, believe it or not, the smell of old cat piss can be terribly sad.
- smell of cat piss
Oh, now I'm just getting sprays to mask the scent of cat piss.
- Oh, now I'm just getting sprays to mask the scent of cat piss.
- So see mice and rats, they're repelled by they, they're repelled by cat piss.
Examples
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Feels like I got cat piss in my eyes!
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Something smells like cat piss.
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Soaks up that cat piss real good.
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Her room smelled of dead flowers and cat piss.
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I can't stand the smell of cat piss.
Fiction book (1997) -
The house always stunk like cat piss.
Blog text (12) -
I found a spot on the carpet that smells strongly of cat piss.
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After the party, I discovered that there was some cat piss on the sofa.
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Cleaning the litter box regularly prevents the smell of cat piss from spreading.
Synonyms
264
1.8
A pale yellow liquid that your body makes and gets rid of through the bladder
118
9.9
The liquid the body sends out when a person pees
How Smelly
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'urine from a cat' is directly and compositionally derived from the constituents 'cat' + 'piss'—a literal noun+noun combination describing the bodily fluid of a cat. Although 'piss' is colloquial/vulgar in register, the referent is transparent and cross‑linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows both words would understand the MWE.
Etymology
Cat piss comes from the very strong smell of a cat's piss. Cats often pee in hidden places and the smell can stay on clothes or furniture, so people use cat piss to mean a 'strong, bad smell'.