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pee off

verb · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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verb

Meaning 1

Synonym of piss off (all senses)

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: euphemistic, humorous, sometimes

Examples

  • 1973, Leo Simpson, The Peacock Papers, Macmillan, page 9 (dialogue): He pees me off on TV. Have we anything of his I could read? page 37 (dialogue): Pee off, this is a private conversation, hey?
  • 1984, William Goldman, The Season: A Candid Look at Broadway, Limelight Editions, →ISBN, page 131, I think, subconsciously, this is every performer's nightmare: that you're going to pee them off so much they're going to come up on stage and kill you.
  • 2005, "BC–The Cycling Geek", quoted in Graham Pond, London by London, The Friday Project Ltd (2005), →ISBN, page 150, Anyway, back to the red light point – it's knackering cycling around, and if one thing pees me off it's getting some good momentum up and then having to stop at a pedestrian crossing because someone's pressed the button then crossed anyway [...]

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: cheese off, tee off, tick off, aggravate, annoy, nettle, rankle, ruffle, sting, antagonize, bother, disgruntle, botherate, bug, get, grate, burn up, bedevil, devil, exasperate, frustrate, get up, grotch, hack off, hassle, irk, irritate, jazz, molest, mommick, nark, nerve, pee off, peeve, peeve off, persecute, pique, piss off, provoke, rile, rile up, roil, storm, test someone's patience, trouble, try one's patience, vex, wind up, Idioms:, boil someone's piss, chap someone's hide, get on someone's nerves, get on someone's tits, get on someone's wick, get someone's back up, get someone's dander up, get someone's goat, get someone's Irish up, get someone's nanny, get someone's nanny-goat, get under one's goat, get under someone's skin, give someone the shits, grind one's gears, harsh one's mellow, put someone's back up, raise someone's hackles, rub someone the wrong way, rub up the wrong way, ruffle someone's feathers, torque off

Antonyms: none provided

History

Etymology

From piss off, pee being the first letter of (and a euphemism for) piss.