Piss

Piss is slang, one of the seven dirty words, which can mean the following:

• Piss can refer to urine: the act of urination is "to piss"
• Piss can refer to alcohol: see "to be pissed" below.
• "Piss off" can mean "Go away!"
• To "piss someone off" is to make a person angry.
• To "piss something away" is to use it up without having anything to show for it. One can also 'piss it all up the wall', often in reference to a squandered fortune.
• A piss-up is a party involving lots of alcohol.
• A "piss-take" is similar to a parody.
• To "take the piss out of" someone is to make fun of that person. Extreme piss taking, with the possibility of drawing tears, can be referred to as "ripping the piss out of" someone.
• To "take the piss out on" someone is to get angry with that person.
• A pisser is a disagreeable person or event
• "It's pissing down" means it's raining heavily.
• A "piss artist" is someone who drinks too much, not someone who makes patterns in the snow...
• A "piece of piss" is an easy task, also "piss in the hand"

The verb to be pissed is equivalent to the verbs "to be drunk" in British English and "to be annoyed" in American English. This was commented on in a South Park episode in which an Englishman says:

Leave it to Americans to think that "no" means yes, "pissed" means angry, and "curse word" means something other than a word that's cursed!!

• Former U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson is reported to have said of FBI director J. Edgar Hoover, "Better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside pissing in."
• U.S. Vice President John Nance Garner famously described the office as "not worth a pitcher of warm piss".

Word Origin: 1250-1300 ME (Middle English) pissen OF (Old French) pissier.