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piss proud

piss proud

9.9
Acting like you are better than other people for no reason
  • idiom
  • NSFW
translation icon : extremadamente orgulloso
  • He strutted around the office, piss proud after landing the new account.

Examples

  • He walked into the room looking piss proud!

  • Even though it was only a minor victory, she acted piss proud for days.

  • Don’t get piss proud over something so trivial; stay humble.

  • After winning the award, she felt piss proud of her achievements.

  • After winning the championship, he walked around the city with a piss proud attitude, boasting about his team's success.

  • She was so piss proud of her promotion that she couldn't stop talking about it at the office party.

  • His piss proud demeanor made it hard for others to be happy for him when he received the award.

Synonyms

proud
vspiss proud
108 1.4

Looking strong and important in a way that makes people feel respect

leans toward arrogant showy self-importance rather than noble dignity
prideful
vspiss proud
8 6.1

Feeling or acting as if you are better than other people

is more about outward show and unjustified self-importance than pure disdain
proud as a peacock
vspiss proud
  • Informal
1 7.4

Being very pleased with yourself and showing it in a loud, showy way

shows arrogant superiority that is often unjustified rather than just showiness
overproud
vspiss proud
7.2

Believing you are better than other people and acting like it

expresses arrogance with showy often unjustified display rather than mere excess

Antonyms

humble
222 2.8

Not proud and not thinking you are better than others

modest
81 2.7

Not thinking you are better than others and not boasting

How Proud

piss proud
  • NSFW
9.9
arrogant
260 4.5
proud
∞ 1.0
pleased
936 1.0
modest
81 2.7

Surface Forms

piss proud positive

Morphology

piss + proud

This is a vulgar/slang compound where 'piss' does not keep its literal meaning (to urinate) but functions as a coarse intensifier attached to 'proud'; the overall sense 'extremely proud/arrogant' can be partially inferred if a learner recognises the intensifier pattern (e.g., 'piss-poor') but is not directly compositional from the literal meanings. Because the intensifying use of 'piss' is informal and unpredictable for a B1 learner who only knows the basic words, it is only partially transparent.

Etymology

The phrase piss proud may come from one simple image: one story says a man who has just peed feels very pleased and looks at himself, so the two words piss and proud show a quick, silly self-importance. So, piss proud now means 'extremely proud' or 'arrogant'.