different between piss vs pins

English

Etymology

From Middle English pissen, from Old French pissier, from Vulgar Latin *p?ssi?, probably of echoic origin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?s/
• Rhymes: -?s

Noun

piss (countable and uncountable, plural pisses)

1. (mildly vulgar, usually uncountable) Urine.

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

   • 1610, Ben Jonson, The Alchemist, Act II (among the list of elixir ingredients):

     Of piss and egg-shells

   • 1611, William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act 4, Scene 1

     Monster, I do smell all horse-piss; at which my nose is in great indignation.

   • 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses, II:8:

     Smells of men. Spat-on sawdust, sweetish warmish cigarettesmoke, reek of plug, spilt beer, men’s beery piss, the stale of ferment.
2. (mildly vulgar, countable) An instance of pissing.

   I'm desperate for a piss!

   • 1999, Tin House #2 (?ISBN, Win McCormack, Rob Spillman, Elissa Schappell), page 170:

     But the urinal was safe, no unshielded pissing trough, but a nice, modest urinal, with a wall on each side of you so you could have your privacy. [...] That was one of the best pisses of my life.

3. (mildly vulgar, countable and uncountable, slang) Alcoholic beverage, especially of inferior quality.
4. (mildly vulgar, attributive) An intensifier.

   piss-poor

   • 1989, Kate Pullinger, When the monster dies, Jonathan Cape:

     Irene went down to her studio and brought the painting upstairs. She leaned it against a wall and then she and Mary contemplated it from across the room. 'It really is piss-ugly,' said Mary with a note of grudging affection in her voice.

   • 2007, C. N. Barton, The Cambridge Diaries: A Tale of Friendship, Love and Economics, Janus Publishing Company Lim (?ISBN), page 417:

     “You are piss funny, Caolan O'Donnell, you really are.”

   • 2016, Rae Earl, My Mad Fat Diary: A Memoir, St. Martin's Griffin (?ISBN), page 267:

     Just watched Black Adder Goes Forth. Can I just say Ben Elton is my bloody hero for ever. If it wasn't for him I would still think voting Tory was OK. And he is piss funny ...

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:urine

Derived terms

• bepiss

Translations

Verb

piss (third-person singular simple present pisses, present participle pissing, simple past and past participle pissed)

1. (intransitive, mildly vulgar) To urinate.

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

   • 1601, Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Act 5, Scene 5

     O Jove, a beastly fault! And then another fault in the semblance of a fowl; think on ’t, Jove; a foul fault! When gods have hot backs, what shall poor men do? For me, I am here a Windsor stag; and the fattest, I think, i’ the forest. Send me a cool rut-time, Jove, or who can blame me to piss my tallow? Who comes here? my doe?

   • 1611, King James Version. I Kings 14:10:

     Therefore, behold, I will bring evil upon the house of Jeroboam, and will cut off from Jeroboam him that pisseth against the wall, and him that is shut up and left in Israel, and will take away the remnant of the house of Jeroboam, as a man taketh away dung, till it be all gone.

   • 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses, I:3:

     Along by the edge of the mole he lolloped, dawdled, smelt a rock and from under a cocked hindleg pissed against it. He trotted forward and, lifting again his hindleg, pissed quick short at an unsmelt rock.

2. (transitive, mildly vulgar) To discharge as or with the urine.

   Lately I've been pissing blood.
3. (transitive, chiefly Britain, mildly vulgar) To achieve something easily.
   • 2018, Carl Fogarty, The World According to Foggy, Hachette UK (?ISBN)

     "I'll piss this," I thought. "There's only Gary to beat and I beat him easily in both heats."

4. (transitive, intransitive, mildly vulgar) To rain heavily.
   • 1989, Christine Dann, Pip Lynch, Wilderness Women: Stories of New Zealand Women at Home in the Wilderness

     She spent that night under her sheet of polythene and 'somehow managed to get only half wet', waking up the next morning to find that 'it had absolutely pissed down through the night'.

   • 2002, Will Self, Feeding Frenzy, Penguin UK (?ISBN)

     Let's face it, they're there for a good stroll on a Sunday afternoon when it's pissing outside.

   • 2013, Patricia Scanlan, With All My Love: A Novel, Simon and Schuster (?ISBN), page 102:

     Normally she would have left the car at home and walked to the hotel but it was pissing rain and she didn't want to meet Jeff looking like a drowned rat.

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:urinate

Translations

Interjection

piss

1. (mildly vulgar) Expresses anger, disappointment or dissatisfaction.
   • 1967, Walter Otto Weyrauch, The Law of a Small Group: A Report on the Berkeley Penthouse Experiments with Emphasis on Penthouse V. Parts I and II

     At times he gets irritable, especially if he believes that something has been misplaced or lost: "Piss oh piss! -- where in the hell does everything go around here!"

   • 1992, Sandra Brown, Three Complete Novels, Wings (?ISBN)

     There was nothing left of the sundae except a puddle of white foam muddied by chocolate syrup, with a cherry floating on top. "Oh, piss," she muttered, "the ice cream's melted."

   • 2014, Michael Wiley, Blue Avenue: First in a noir mystery series set in Jacksonville, Florida, Severn House Publishers Ltd (?ISBN)

     Fowler was unresponsive when emergency services arrived and was declared dead at the scene. Fowler worked for the mayor's office for the past three years and twice ran unsuccessfully for city council. Police are asking anyone who saw a green Toyota or Honda SUV near the scene of the accident to contact them.' 'Piss!' Melchiori said again. 'He was a friend of mine.'

Derived terms

Anagrams

• ISPs, PSIS, SSPI, psis, sips

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?s/
• Rhymes: -?s

Verb

piss

1. singular imperative of pissen
2. (colloquial) first-person singular present of pissen

Icelandic

Etymology

From pissa (“to pee”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p??s?/
• Rhymes: -?s?

Noun

piss n (genitive singular piss, no plural)

1. (informal) pee, piss, urine

Declension

Synonyms

• (urine): hland, þvag

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

piss

1. imperative of pisse

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

piss

1. imperative of pissa

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?nz/
• Homophone: pens (pin-pen merger)

Noun

pins

1. plural of pin

Verb

pins

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of pin

Anagrams

• Insp, NIPs, NPIs, Nips, PSNI, nips, snip, spin

Catalan

Noun

pins

1. plural of pin

French

Noun

pins m

1. plural of pin

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From the English plural of pin.

Noun

pins m (definite singular pinsen, indefinite plural pins or pinsar, definite plural pinsane)

1. a lapel pin

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Noun

pins m (definite singular pinsen, indefinite plural pinsar, definite plural pinsane)
pins f (definite singular pinsa or pinsi, indefinite plural pinser, definite plural pinsene)

1. form removed with the spelling reform of 2012; superseded by pinse f, m

References

• “pins” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Spanish

Noun

pins m pl

1. plural of pin