| 释义 |
▪ I. piss, v. Not now in polite use.|pɪs|
Forms: α. 3–7 pisse, 4 pis, 4–6 pyss(e, 6– piss; β. 5 pysch-yn, 6 Sc. pisch(e, 6–8 Sc. pish.
[ME. piss-en, a. OF. piss-ier (12th c. in Hatz.-Darm.), F. piss-er (Picard picher) = Pr. pissar (mod. pichá, Diez), Cat. pixar, Rhæt. pischar, It. pisciare, Rom. pisà; origin uncertain; the OF. and It. forms are not referable to any single Romanic type, and are prob. onomatopœic. From French the word has also passed (orig. as a euphemism) into the Teutonic langs.: OFris. pissia (Diez), MDu., MLG., 16th c. Ger. pissen, Da. pisse, Sw., Norw., Icel. pissa: so Welsh piso, pisio.
For various conjectures as to the origin of the Romanic word, see Diez, Körting No. 7195, Ulrich in Romania IX. 117; cf. also Scheler, Littré, s.v.]
1. a. intr. To discharge urine, urinate, make water.
c1290S. Eng. Leg. I. 45/381 Ȝwane he wolde pisse. c1330R. Brunne Chron. (1810) 328 Þei salle him ilkone bete him þat he pis. c1440Promp. Parv. 402/1 Pyssyn, or pyschyn, mingo. 1508Dunbar Tua Mariit Wemen 187 As dotit dog..liftis his leg apon loft, thoght he nought list pische. 1594Nashe Unfort. Trav. 56, I was at Pontius Pilates house [in Rome] and pist against it. 1687Dryden Hind & P. iii. 159 The wanton boyes wou'd piss upon your grave. 1785Burns Holy Willie's Pr. xv. 1870[see 3].
b. transf., and in various allusive and proverbial uses; spec. to be raining heavily. to piss in (a person's) pocket (Austral.), to ingratiate oneself with, be on very familiar terms with.
16022nd Pt. Return fr. Parnass. i. ii. (Arb.) 12 What Monsier Kynsader, lifting vp your legge and pissing against the world. 1642G. Torriano Sel. Italian Proverbs 19 He who pisseth against the wind, wetteth his shirt. 1668R. L'Estrange Vis. Quev. (1708) 36 Money will make the Pot boyl, though the Devil Piss in the Fire. 1670J. Ray Coll. Eng. Proverbs 131 Chi piscia contra il vento si bagna la commiscia, Ital. He that pisseth against the wind, wets his shirt. It is to a mans own prejudice, to strive against the stream. 1700T. Brown Amusem. Ser. & Com. 98 There are some Quacks as Honest Fellows as you would desire to Piss upon. 1720T. Gordon Cordial Low Spirits 72 They cannot impose upon their Prince, nor piss upon the laws. a1734North Exam. i. ii. §78 (1740) 70 So strangely did Papist and Fanatic, or..the Anticourt Party, p—s in a Quill; agreeing in all Things that tended to create Troubles and Disturbances. 1902Farmer & Henley Slang. V. 215/2 ‘Piss not against the wind’, or ‘He that pisseth against the wind wets his shirt’. 1962J. Baldwin Another Country i. ii. 94 Christ, it's pissing out there! 1967K. Tennant Tell Morning This xxx. 283 Soon's they knew you was in with Numismata, they all want to piss in your pocket. 1968H. C. Rae Few Small Bones ii. i. 73 Went camping up north..but it pissed the whole time. Come to think of it, I was pretty pissed the whole time myself. 1969C. Bray Blossom like Rose xii. 165, I don't mean to piss in yer pockets, but youse blokes are all right. 1970E. Pace Saberlegs (1971) vi. 58 Putting words on newspaper pages was, if anything, even more ephemeral than intelligence-gathering. As they used to say at Dartmouth, it was all ‘pissing in the wind’. 1971F. Hardy Outcasts of Foolgaran 77, I appeared before him many a time when I worked for the Union. If we piss in his pocket, he's just as apt to come our way. 1973L. Snelling Heresy i. vii. 52 I'd like to buy it, but frankly I think you're pissing against the wind... He's a pretty cunning little bugger. 1977J. Wainwright Nest of Rats i. viii. 60 How much time?.. Don't make it hours—otherwise you're pissing in the wind.
c. Const. with various adverbs: to piss about, to fool or mess about; to potter about; to piss down, to rain heavily; to piss off, to go away, depart.
1950G. Wilson Brave Company 172 It fairly pissed down on top of me. 1958F. Norman Bang to Rights 72 So what, I wish you'd piss off. 1960H. Pinter Caretaker i. 14 Piss off, he said... If you don't piss off, he says, I'll kick you all the way to the gate. 1961Partridge Dict. Slang Suppl. 1223/2 Piss about, to potter; fritter one's time away; to stall for time. 1970T. Lewis Jack's Return Home 179 Are you coming in? Or do we piss about all day? 1971W. J. Burley Guilt Edged viii. 138 Most of yesterday it was pissing down with rain. 1971B. W. Aldiss Soldier Erect 50 I'll have a drink when I feel like it, and not before. You two piss off if you're so bloody thirsty! 1972R. Quilty Tenth Session 19 Pissing down too, and one o'clock in the morning. 1974‘J. Fraser’ Wreath of Lords & Ladies vii. 57 Are we going to piss off home or sit here blabbering all night? 1975Sunday Times (Colour Suppl.) 23 Feb. 26/3 The manager who tried to discipline a man caught with an illicit can of tea was told to piss off. 1977J. Thomson Case Closed ii. 25 Tucker wouldn't come..not with it pissing down with rain. 1977M. Drabble Ice Age i. 59 Oh piss off, Mum, Maureen would reply, amiably.
2. a. trans. To discharge as or with the urine.
1362Langl. P. Pl. A. v. 192 He [Gloton] pissede a potel in a pater-noster while. c1375St. Augustin 1402 in Horstm. Altengl. Leg. (1878) 85/2 Þe chyld, iwis, A gret stone al out dude pis And was al hol of þat seknes. c1400Lanfranc's Cirurg. 62 Til þat he pisse blood. 1623Hart Arraignm. Ur. i. 1 Urine is that which is pissed.
b. transf. and fig. in various uses.
† to piss (money, etc.) against or on the wall: to squander or waste it. to piss away, to squander. to piss one's grease or tallow: said of deer becoming lean in rutting-time; hence transf.
c1450M.E. Med. Bk. (Heinrich) 232 Take talow of an hert, suche as he pysseþ by twene two seynt mary dayes. 1471Ripley Comp. Alch. v. xxxi. in Ashm. Theatr. Chem. Brit. (1652) 155 But as for Mony yt ys pyssyd on the walls. 1551Robinson tr. More's Utop. (1895) 197. 1598 Shakes. Merry W. v. v. 16. 1602 2nd Pt. Return fr. Parnass. iii. ii. (Arb.) 40 They are pestilent fellowes, they speake nothing but bodkins, and pisse vinegar. 1680Crowne Misery Civil War i. i, I command the conduits all piss Claret. 1694Motteux Rabelais v. xxviii. (1737) 132 He's nothing but Skin and Bones; he has piss'd his Tallow. 1948D. Ballantyne Cunninghams 211 Have to stop pissing away the hard-earned cash though. 1972P. Knapp Berengaria Exchange 18 Dinty had built up a ‘pretty good roll’. But as he now says with a shrug, ‘I pissed it all away in Paris.’ 1975Time 4 Aug. 61/2 ‘This company is doing a good business,’ he says. ‘If we can only stop pissing away the profits.’
3. a. To urinate upon or in, to wet with urine (= bepiss); to put out or extinguish (fire) in this way. Also refl.
1362Langl. P. Pl. A. vii. 143 A Brutiner, a braggere, a bostede him alse, And bad go pisse him with his plouh [B. vi. 157 bad hym go pissen]. c1560A. Scott Poems (S.T.S.) ii. 87 The fyre wes pischt out. 1593Pass. Morrice (1876) 80 Being as often readie to pisse my breeche. 1713Swift Elegy on Partridge, Whom roguish boys..Torment by pissing out their lights. 1870tr. Trousseau's Lect. Clin. Med. III. 478 Children, who piss their beds dreaming that they are pissing against a wall. 1951Partridge Dict. Slang. (ed. 4) 1136/2 Piss oneself laughing. 1969N. Cohn AWopBopaLooBop (1970) ix. 85 The Twist ballooned almost instantaneously from a fad to an industry. The papers pissed themselves. Big money got invested. 1976A. White Long Silence xviii. 147 Otto pissed himself with fear. 1978J. Barnett Head of Force xv. 146 You've pissed yourself..you dirty bastard.
b. to piss off, to annoy, irritate, put off, make ‘fed up’ or depressed (see also pissed ppl. a. 2); to piss up, to spoil, ruin, mess up.
1937E. Pound Fifth Decad of Cantos I. 49 Talleyrand stank with shanker And hell pissed up Metternich. 1968Southerly XXVIII. 275 She prefers British eccentrics because they don't expect to be liked. ‘I mean,’ she says, ‘it's their way of pissing people off, isn't it?’ 1970It 27 Feb.–13 Mar. 14/1 Wasn't it incredible? I just didn't believe it!.. They really piss me off. 1971B. Malamud Tenants 178 You ought to burn up both of these yourself, Willie, on account of this cat stole your white bitch and pissed up your black book. 1972Last Whole Earth Catalog (Portola Inst.) 9/3 It did piss me off when the dealer let me go for only five hundred and fifty dollars. 1974K. C. Constantine Blank Page 148, I still think it'd piss him off. 1976‘D. Craig’ Faith, Hope & Death xvii. 118 Did I let them just unload it because they pissed up a job?.. This was my money that had been lifted. 1977Rolling Stone 16 June 52/2 She may not want to be called ‘Queen’, but only because she considers herself too young, because she is not out to piss off Aretha Franklin any more than she already has.
▪ II. piss, n. Not now in polite use.|pɪs|
Forms: α. 4–6 pysse, 4–7 pisse, 5–6 pys, 6 pyse, 7– piss. β. 5 pysche.
[f. piss v. So F. pisse (Cotgr. 1611); cf. also MDu., LG. pisse, Du. pis.]
1. Urine, ‘water’. Also, the action or an act of urinating. † a rod in piss: see rod, and cf. pickle n.1 1 b.
c1386Chaucer Wife's Prol. 729 How Xantippa caste pisse vp-on his heed. 1388Wyclif 2 Kings xviii. 27 Thei ete her toordis, and drynke her pisse [1382 vryne] with ȝou. c1440Promp. Parv. 402/1 Pysse, or pysche, urina, minctura. 1600J. Pory tr. Leo's Africa ii. 56 Lothsome and intolerable stench of pisse, and of goates dung. a1704T. Brown Table Talk in Collect. Poems 122 What Miracles..were wrought by Cows Piss, and the Cold Bath? 1916Joyce Portrait of Artist ii. 96 That is horse piss and rotted straw, he thought. It is a good odour to breathe. 1926T. E. Lawrence Seven Pillars (1935) vi. lxxviii. 434 Mifleh brought up the youngest lads of the party, and had them spray the wounds with their piss, as a rude antiseptic. 1974P. Larkin High Windows 32 Groping back to bed after a piss. 1976Listener 18 Mar. 344/1 The words [in a radio play]..were punctuated with belches, giggles, mutterings, reflective hesitations, the repetition of good jokes, and a wonderfully realistic-sounding piss. 1979N. Freeling Widow iii. 11 The hallway smelt... Piss, cabbage, stale sweat.
2. In various fig. phrases, as on the piss, engaged in a bout of heavy drinking; take the piss (out of), to make fun (of), to ‘take the mickey’ (out of); piss and wind, empty talk, bombast; piss and vinegar, energy, aggression; also attrib.
1922Joyce Ulysses 322 All wind and piss like a tanyard cat. 1942Berrey & Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §240/2 Animation; spirit; vim,..piss and vinegar. 1942Horizon Aug. 124 Buggered if I know when he'll be back. Gone on the piss, I shouldn't wonder. 1945Penguin New Writing XXVI. 49 The corporal..sat back in his corner looking a little offended. He thought I was taking the piss. 1958F. Norman Bang to Rights 116 This only made us take the piss out of him the more. 1961Partridge Dict. Slang Suppl. 1223/2 Piss and wind, as in ‘He's all piss and wind!’ Empty talk; unsubstantiated boast(s). 1962E. Ambler Light of Day xii. 244 These policemen are all piss and wind anyway. 1966M. Spillane Death Dealers i. 17 Remember the old days, Tiger? You were young and fast and strong. Full of piss and vinegar. 1968‘P. Alding’ Circle of Danger iii. 20 Him not turning up may just mean he's been on the piss. 1969Guardian 13 Feb. 22/4 Mr Eric Lubbock, the Liberal MP for Orpington..said: ‘..I have heard nothing but piss and wind.’ 1971B. W. Aldiss Soldier Erect 49 ‘Come on, Wally, like—I don't think you ought to take the piss out of the poor sod!’ Geordie said. ‘He's got his living to earn.’ 1974Observer 30 June 22/8 And I don't binge. If I'd gone on the piss every time I missed a cut [sc. failed to qualify in a golf tournament] I'd be a raging alcoholic by now. 1975J. Symons Three Pipe Problem xviii. 190 You like to take the piss out of me, don't you? 1976J. O'Connor Eleventh Commandment xiv. 179, I was very happy and went on the piss. 1976R. Perry One Good Death iv. 66 The sarcasm left Collins unmoved. He knew that Pawson was in one of his piss and vinegar moods. 1978R. Busby Garvey's Code xi. 138 Jacko's not such a bad bloke. Full of piss and vinegar and ready to jump for any bugger with braid on his hat. 1978R. Hill Pinch of Snuff xiv. 145 When Hope replied ‘He's a Hungarian’ he thought at first he was taking the piss. Wield seemed prepared to accept this as a serious contribution, however.
3. Comb. piss artist, a glib person; a person who messes about; a drunkard; † piss-bowl = piss-pot; piss-bucket, a bucket for urinating in; piss-burnt a., stained or damaged with or as with urine, red-brown; piss-cutter N. Amer., someone or something excellent; a clever or crafty person; (see also quot. 1956); piss-head, a drunkard; piss-hole, (a) hole made by urine; (b) an unpleasant place; piss-house, an outside water closet; a lavatory; also fig. (see quots. 1931, 1942); piss-proud a., having an erection attributed to a full bladder, esp. upon awakening; piss-take, a parody, a send-up (see sense 2); also piss-taker, piss-taking; piss-tin, a tin for urinating in; piss-weed, some species of Androsace.
1975Peace News 11 July 11/1 Most donors seem to be pretty careful. The lists of who's been given money seem to bear this out—it's usually the right-on projects which have most and the con merchants and *piss artists often go without. 1977Sounds 9 July 36/4, I am appealing to anybody who knows John and Murdoch of Erkshire Scotland. You know, those piss-artists, protozoans who wrote that letter about a rock band classification. 1977Custom Car Nov. 5/2, I refer to the auto/driver self-destruct mechanism know as ‘booze’. A piss artist behind the wheel of a 1935 Austin Seven was a killer. 1977Private Eye 10 Nov. 22/1 (Advt.), Malcolm Derek Winn. Photographer, traveller, piss-artist. Whereabouts known? Box 1215.
1542Udall Erasm. Apoph. 23 b, She..powred downe a *pisse bolle vpon hym out of a wyndoore.
1973J. Seabrook Loneliness 104 The workhouses were terrible places. At Newark, you slept on a stone floor, and in the middle there was a *piss-bucket.
1565K. Daryus (Brandl) 418 Gyt thee away, thou *pys burnde Cokolde. 1742Fielding J. Andrews iii. xii, A long piss-burnt beard.
1942Berrey & Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §29/2 Something excellent,..*piss-cutter. Ibid. §432/2 Capable person; expert,..piss-cutter. 1956Amer. Speech XXXI. 192 His [sc. a marine's] garrison cap is a pisscutter (also used as a cynical description, i.e., ‘He's a pisscutter, he is!’). 1968E. R. Buckler Ox Bells & Fireflies xv. 206 Gus Jordan's got a new rowboat. It's a real pisscutter! 1974D. Sears Lark in Clear Air viii. 97 I'd send some [beer] along with you but that old piss-cutter of a Heeney would drink'm all before you cut the froth on the first bottle. 1977Maledicta Summer 13 A clever person is sometimes called a piss-cutter.
1961Patridge Dict. Slang Suppl. 1223/2 *Piss-head, an habitually heavy drinker. 1968Landfall XXII. 50 My old man was a piss-head too.
c1932Dylan Thomas Lett. (1966) 4 My eyes are two *piss-holes in the sand. 1973R. Busby Pattern of Violence ii. 24 ‘How's tricks, Lucky?’.. ‘Be better when I'm out of this piss hole—no offence, gents.’ 1974R. Gadney Something Worth Fighting For iv. 33 Let's get out of this pisshole.
1931Amer. Speech VII. 112 *Piss-house, n., the police station. 1942Berrey & Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §84/11 Toilet,..piss-house. Ibid. §466/10 Police station or jail,..pisshouse. 1973W. H. Canaway Harry doing Good ii. v. 187 Come outside for a leak. Blow your noses on the way to the piss-house. 1974H. MacInnes Climb to Lost World xi. 199 Next morning the Wall was wetter than ever... ‘Never seen it so wet here—what do you think?’ ‘Looks like a piss-house wall to me.’
1788Grose Dict. Vulg. T. (ed. 2), *Piss-proud, having a false erection. That old fellow thought he had an erection, but his ― was only piss-proud; said of any old fellow who marries a young wife. 1868Index Expurgatorius of Martial 88 Maevius who while sleeping only gets A piss-proud stand that melts away on waking. 1932Auden Orators iii. 104 That piss-proud prophet.
1977Spare Rib July 49/1 It's a bit of a *pisstake, sending up the whole bi-sexuality thing.
1976New Society 20 May 408/2 ‘What's funny about a jeweller?.. He's a *piss taker.
1971It 9–23 Sept. 21/1 The subjects for *piss-taking run the gamut from the chairboard executive's life..to the Amerikanjudicial system.
1974H. MacInnes Climb to Lost World vii. 104 If it was imperative, I used my *piss-tin, conveniently placed at arm's reach on the mud.
1713Petiver in Phil. Trans. XXVIII. 203 Small Aleppo *Piss-weed, Androsace Alepensis parva.
4. Used quasi-adverbially in sense ‘very, excessively, to an extremely undesirable degree’, as piss-elegant, piss-poor, piss-rotten, piss-wet, etc., adjs.
1940E. Pound Cantos lxix. 174 Bingham, Carrol of Carrolton Gone piss-rotten for Hamilton Cabot, Fisher Ames [etc.]. 1946(reported in oral use by Prof. A. L. Hench) This is a piss-poor outfit. My job is a piss-poor one. 1957J. Kerouac On Road (1958) 207 A pisspoor bum from Larimer Street. 1970J. Hansen Fadeout viii. 68 Feeling sorry for a man's a piss-poor reason to marry him. 1972R. Maughan Escape from Shadows iv. 186 But I feel out of place here, it's too piss-elegant. 1972J. Brown Chancer v. 64 ‘This beer,’ I said, ‘it's piss-poor.’ 1973Amer. Speech 1970 XLV. 58 Piss-elegant, pretentious, ostentatious, egotistical (used with reference to male homosexuals). 1973Nation Rev. (Melbourne) 24–30 Aug. 1432/1, I think privately that they look in pisspoor condition; but the spirited bidding rockets the price up to $2.50 in no time. 1974J. Anthoine in H. MacInnes Climb to Lost World x. 179 He got piss wet in that bloody channel [on a rock face]. Ibid. xi. 202 ‘Here we are,’ I said to Joe. ‘On a piss-wet cliff and there's no bloody water for a brew!’ 1977Gay News 24 Mar. 21/2 The Lovely Ladies from South America were so piss-elegant they could hardly lift their feet off the ground. 1977N.Y. Rev. Bks. 4 Aug. 35/4 They manufacture piss-chic cosmetics.
▸ piss test n. a drug test performed on urine.
1979S. Rees in D. Cluster They should have served that Cup Coffee vi. 162 You had to leave with no opiates in your system. The *piss test was their judge. 2001H. Marks Bk. Dope Stories iii. 308 Get..maybe one rubber pointed stick full of drug-free piss..for the piss test. |