Standard Lemma guide

piss

intj · noun · verb · 12 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

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  • /pɪs/
  • rhymes with -ɪs
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  • CMU ARPABET: P IH1 S Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

intj

Meaning 1

Expresses anger, disappointment or dissatisfaction.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: mildly, vulgar

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

Urine.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: mildly, uncountable, usually, vulgar

Examples

  • This toilet is disgusting. There's piss all over the floor.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

noun

Meaning 3

The act of urinating.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, mildly, vulgar

Examples

  • I'm desperate for a piss!

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

4

noun

Meaning 4

Alcoholic beverage, especially of inferior quality.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, mildly, uncountable, vulgar

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

5

noun

Meaning 5

An intensifier.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: attributive, countable, mildly, uncountable, vulgar

Examples

  • piss-poor

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

6

verb

Meaning 6

To urinate.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: intransitive, mildly, vulgar

Examples

  • When I got home I found a drunk pissing in my doorway.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

7

verb

Meaning 7

To discharge as or with the urine.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: mildly, transitive, vulgar

Examples

  • If you're pissing blood, you'd better see a doctor.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

8

verb

Meaning 8

To achieve easily.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, mildly, slang, transitive, vulgar

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

9

verb

Meaning 9

To rain heavily.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: ambitransitive, mildly, slang, vulgar

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

10

noun

Meaning 10

informal terms for urination

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • he took a pee

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: peeing, pee, pissing

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: micturition, urination

11

noun

Meaning 11

liquid excretory product

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • there was blood in his urine
  • the child had to make water

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: urine, pee, piddle, weewee, water

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: body waste, excretion, excreta, excrement, excretory product

12

verb

Meaning 12

eliminate urine

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • Again, the cat had made on the expensive rug

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: make, urinate, piddle, puddle, micturate, pee, pee-pee, make water, relieve oneself, take a leak, spend a penny, wee, wee-wee, pass water

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: excrete, egest, eliminate, pass

Narrower terms: wet, stale

History

Etymology

From Middle English pisse (noun) and pissen (verb), from Old French pissier, possibly from Vulgar Latin *pīssiāre, probably of imitative origin. Compare Old Norse pissa (“to urinate, piss”). Displaced Old English miċġe (“urine”) and mīgan (“to urinate”).

Across languages

Translations

195 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Danish: pis! — expression of anger, disappointment or dissatisfaction
  • Romanian: pișa-m-aș! — expression of anger, disappointment or dissatisfaction
  • Amharic: ሽንት (šənt) — urine
  • Arabic: شُخَاخ (šuḵāḵ) — urine
  • Arabic: بَوْل (bawl) — urine
  • Armenian: շեռ (šeṙ) — urine
  • Armenian: չիշիկ (čʻišik) — urine
  • Bashkir: һейҙек (heyźek) — urine
  • Basque: pixa — urine
  • Basque: txiza — urine
  • Bulgarian: пи́кня (píknja) — urine
  • Catalan: pixo — urine
  • Catalan: pipí — urine
  • Catalan: pixat — urine
  • Catalan: pixada — urine
  • Cebuano: ihi — urine
  • Cherokee: ᎠᏗᎧᏓ (adikada) — urine
  • Chinese Mandarin: 小便 (xiǎobiàn) — urine
  • Czech: chcanky — urine
  • Danish: pis — urine
  • Dutch: pis — urine
  • Esperanto: urino — urine
  • Estonian: kusi — urine
  • Estonian: piss — urine
  • Estonian: uriin — urine
  • Finnish: kusi — urine
  • Finnish: pissa — urine
  • Finnish: virtsa — urine
  • French: pisse — urine
  • French: urine — urine
  • French: pipi — urine
  • Galician: mexo — urine
  • Galician: ouriños — urine
  • Galician: urina — urine
  • Georgian: ფსელი (pseli) — urine
  • Georgian: შარდი (šardi) — urine
  • German: Pisse — urine
  • Greek: κατουρλιό (katourlió) — urine
  • Greek: κάτουρο (kátouro) — urine
  • Greek: τσίσα (tsísa) — urine
  • Hebrew: שֶׁתֶן (shéten) — urine
  • Hungarian: pisi — urine
  • Icelandic: hland — urine
  • Ido: urinifar — urine
  • Indonesian: pipis — urine
  • Irish: mún — urine
  • Italian: orina — urine
  • Italian: piscio — urine
  • Italian: piscia — urine
  • Italian: pipí — urine
  • Japanese: 小便 (shōben) — urine
  • Japanese: おしっこ (o-shikko) — urine
  • Ket: дәсь — urine
  • Khmer: មូត្រ (moot) — urine
  • Khmer: ទឹកនោម (tɨk noom) — urine
  • Korean: 오줌 (ojum) — urine
  • Korean: 소변 (sobyeon) — urine
  • Northern Kurdish: mîz — urine
  • Luxembourgish: Piss — urine
  • Macedonian: мочка (močka) — urine
  • Malay: kencing — urine
  • Navajo: łizh — urine
  • Old English: miċġa — urine
  • Old English: miċġe — urine
  • Old English: migoþa — urine
  • Old English: hland — urine
  • Persian: شاش (šâš) — urine
  • Persian: جیش (jiš) — urine
  • Plautdietsch: Pisch — urine
  • Plautdietsch: Pess — urine
  • Polabian: pisaină — urine
  • Polish: siki — urine
  • Portuguese: mijo — urine
  • Portuguese: xixi — urine
  • Portuguese: urina — urine
  • Punjabi: مُوتَر (mūtar) — urine
  • Romanian: pișat — urine
  • Russian: сса́ки (ssáki) — urine
  • Russian: сца́ки (scáki) — urine
  • Russian: ссани́на (ssanína) — urine
  • Northern Sami: gožža — urine
  • Northern Sami: gužža — urine
  • Spanish: meado — urine
  • Spanish: orina — urine
  • Spanish: meada — urine
  • Spanish: pis — urine
  • Spanish: pipí — urine
  • Swedish: piss — urine
  • Swedish: kiss — urine
  • Thai: เยี่ยว (yîao) — urine
  • Thai: ฉี่ (chìi) — urine
  • Tocharian B: miśo — urine
  • Turkish: çiş — urine
  • Turkish: idrar — urine
  • Turkish: sidik — urine
  • Ottoman Turkish: سیدك (sidik) — urine
  • Ugaritic: 𐎘𐎐𐎚 (ṯnt) — urine
  • Ukrainian: сцяки (scjaky) — urine
  • Welsh: piso — urine
  • Welsh: pisiad — urine
  • French: pisse — alcohol
  • German: Fusel — alcohol
  • German: Plörre — alcohol
  • Icelandic: sull — alcohol
  • Romanian: pișat — alcohol
  • Russian: бухло́ (buxló) — alcohol
  • Russian: по́йло (pójlo) — alcohol
  • Albanian: shurrój — ''(vulgar)'' to urinate
  • Arabic: بَوَّلَ (bawwala) — ''(vulgar)'' to urinate
  • Arabic: شَخَّ (šaḵḵa) — ''(vulgar)'' to urinate
  • Armenian: միզել (mizel) — ''(vulgar)'' to urinate
  • Armenian: շռել (šṙel) — ''(vulgar)'' to urinate
  • Aromanian: chish — ''(vulgar)'' to urinate
  • Azerbaijani: işəmək — ''(vulgar)'' to urinate
  • Basque: pixa egin — ''(vulgar)'' to urinate
  • Belarusian: сцаць (scacʹ) — ''(vulgar)'' to urinate
  • Bulgarian: пишкам (piškam) — ''(vulgar)'' to urinate
  • Bulgarian: пикая (pikaja) — ''(vulgar)'' to urinate
  • Bulgarian: чуркам (čurkam) — ''(vulgar)'' to urinate
  • Catalan: pixar — ''(vulgar)'' to urinate
  • Chinese Mandarin: 撒尿 (sāniào) — ''(vulgar)'' to urinate
  • Chinese Mandarin: 尿泡 (niàopāo) — ''(vulgar)'' to urinate
  • Czech: čurat — ''(vulgar)'' to urinate
  • Czech: chcát — ''(vulgar)'' to urinate
  • Dalmatian: miur — ''(vulgar)'' to urinate
  • Dutch: piesen — ''(vulgar)'' to urinate
  • Dutch: pissen — ''(vulgar)'' to urinate
  • Dutch: zeiken — ''(vulgar)'' to urinate
  • Esperanto: pisi — ''(vulgar)'' to urinate
  • Esperanto: urini — ''(vulgar)'' to urinate
  • Finnish: kusta — ''(vulgar)'' to urinate
  • Finnish: pissata — ''(vulgar)'' to urinate
  • Franco-Provençal: pissier — ''(vulgar)'' to urinate
  • French: pisser — ''(vulgar)'' to urinate
  • Galician: mexar — ''(vulgar)'' to urinate
  • Georgian: ფსმა (psma) — ''(vulgar)'' to urinate
  • Georgian: ფსამს (psams) — ''(vulgar)'' to urinate
  • German: Wasser lassen — ''(vulgar)'' to urinate
  • German: pinkeln — ''(vulgar)'' to urinate
  • German: pissen — ''(vulgar)'' to urinate
  • German: strullen — ''(vulgar)'' to urinate
  • Greek: κατουρώ (katouró) — ''(vulgar)'' to urinate
  • Ancient Greek: ὀμείχω (omeíkhō) — ''(vulgar)'' to urinate
  • Hebrew: הִשְׁתִּין (hishtín) — ''(vulgar)'' to urinate
  • Hindi: मूतना (mūtnā) — ''(vulgar)'' to urinate
  • Hungarian: pisál — ''(vulgar)'' to urinate
  • Hungarian: húgyozik — ''(vulgar)'' to urinate
  • Icelandic: pissa — ''(vulgar)'' to urinate
  • Icelandic: míga — ''(vulgar)'' to urinate
  • Indonesian: kencing — ''(vulgar)'' to urinate
  • Irish: mún — ''(vulgar)'' to urinate
  • Italian: pisciare — ''(vulgar)'' to urinate
  • Japanese: 小便をする (shōben o suru) — ''(vulgar)'' to urinate
  • Khmer: នោម (noom) — ''(vulgar)'' to urinate
  • Khmer: ចែង (caeng) — ''(vulgar)'' to urinate
  • Korean: 오줌싸다 (ojumssada) — ''(vulgar)'' to urinate
  • Kyrgyz: сийүү (siyüü) — ''(vulgar)'' to urinate
  • Latin: mēiō — ''(vulgar)'' to urinate
  • Latin: mingō — ''(vulgar)'' to urinate
  • Latvian: mīzt — ''(vulgar)'' to urinate
  • Lithuanian: myžti — ''(vulgar)'' to urinate
  • Lithuanian: sisioti — ''(vulgar)'' to urinate
  • Macedonian: моча (moča) — ''(vulgar)'' to urinate
  • Marathi: मुतणे (mutṇe) — ''(vulgar)'' to urinate
  • Nepali: मुत्नु (mutnu) — ''(vulgar)'' to urinate
  • Old English: mīgan — ''(vulgar)'' to urinate
  • Persian: شاشیدن (šâšidan) — ''(vulgar)'' to urinate
  • Polish: sikać — ''(vulgar)'' to urinate
  • Polish: szczać — ''(vulgar)'' to urinate
  • Portuguese: mijar — ''(vulgar)'' to urinate
  • Romanian: pișa — ''(vulgar)'' to urinate
  • Russian: ссать (ssatʹ) — ''(vulgar)'' to urinate
  • Russian: посса́ть (possátʹ) — ''(vulgar)'' to urinate
  • Sanskrit: मेहति (mehati) — ''(vulgar)'' to urinate
  • Scottish Gaelic: mùin — ''(vulgar)'' to urinate
  • Serbo-Croatian: пишати — ''(vulgar)'' to urinate
  • Serbo-Croatian: pišati — ''(vulgar)'' to urinate
  • Slovak: pišať — ''(vulgar)'' to urinate
  • Slovak: cikať — ''(vulgar)'' to urinate
  • Slovak: šťať — ''(vulgar)'' to urinate
  • Spanish: mear — ''(vulgar)'' to urinate
  • Spanish: empapar de meado — ''(vulgar)'' to urinate
  • Spanish: echarse un meo — ''(vulgar)'' to urinate
  • Swedish: pissa — ''(vulgar)'' to urinate
  • Thai: เยี่ยว (yîao) — ''(vulgar)'' to urinate
  • Thai: ฉี่ (chìi) — ''(vulgar)'' to urinate
  • Turkish: işemek — ''(vulgar)'' to urinate
  • Turkish: çiş yapmak — ''(vulgar)'' to urinate
  • Turkish: çiş etmek — ''(vulgar)'' to urinate
  • Turkish: siğmek — ''(vulgar)'' to urinate
  • Ottoman Turkish: سیمك (siymek) — ''(vulgar)'' to urinate
  • Ukrainian: сця́ти (scjáty) — ''(vulgar)'' to urinate
  • Vietnamese: đái — ''(vulgar)'' to urinate
  • Walloon: pixhî — ''(vulgar)'' to urinate
  • Welsh: piso — ''(vulgar)'' to urinate