different between pissant vs pisser

English

Alternative forms

• piss-ant

Etymology

From piss +? ant, because of the urine-like smell of anthills. Compare pismire.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p?sænt/

Noun

pissant (plural pissants)

1. (dated outside dialects) An ant.
2. (derogatory) An insignificant person.

   Synonym: nobody
3. (derogatory) A person who adheres strictly to a rule or policy despite current circumstances.

4. (derogatory) A person seemingly incapable of focusing on anything but the trivial, especially in the sense of trivial or irrelevant criticism.

Adjective

pissant (comparative more pissant, superlative most pissant)

1. (sometimes vulgar) Insignificant or unimportant.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:insignificant

Further reading

• “pissant”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
• “pissant”, in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary, (Please provide a date or year).

Anagrams

• ptisans, spastin

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pi.s??/

Adjective

pissant (feminine singular pissante, masculine plural pissants, feminine plural pissantes)

1. (Quebec, colloquial) funny

Verb

pissant

1. present participle of pisser

Further reading

• “pissant” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Etymology

From Middle English pissere; equivalent to piss +? -er (“agent noun”).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?s?(r)

Noun

pisser (plural pissers)

1. (mildly vulgar) One who pisses.
2. (mildly vulgar) That which pisses, particularly a penis.
3. (US dialect, slang, mildly vulgar) Someone or something impressive or remarkable.
4. (Britain, slang, mildly vulgar) A disappointing or frustrating situation or event.
5. (chiefly US, mildly vulgar, slang) That into which one pisses: a toilet or urinal.
6. (Australia, slang, mildly vulgar) An extremely amusing person or thing.
7. (informal) Synonym of piss clam

Synonyms

• (vulgar slang for toilet): See shitter and Thesaurus:toilet

Translations

References

• Oxford English Dictionary. "pisser, n."

Anagrams

• 'spires, Persis, Speirs, Spiers, persis, prises, resips, spiers, spires

Dutch

Etymology

From pissen +? -er.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?s?r

Noun

pisser m (plural pissers, diminutive pissertje n)

1. (literally) one who pisses
2. (figuratively) penis
3. (figuratively) amateur

Synonyms

• plasser

French

Etymology

From Old French pissier, from Vulgar Latin *pissi?re, present active infinitive of *pissi?, of originally Germanic origin or more likely of echoic origin. Cognates include Catalan pixar, Italian pisciare, Romanian pi?a.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pi.se/

Verb

pisser

1. (transitive, intransitive, slang) to piss
2. (transitive) to pour with (some liquid)

   Et, au milieu de cette buée amassée goutte à goutte, de cette évaporation continue des trois marmites, où fondaient les cochons, il n'était certainement pas, du plancher au plafond, un clou qui ne pissât la graisse.

   And, in the midst of that steam built up drop by drop, that continual evaporation from the three pots where the pigs were stewing, there wasn't a single nail from floor to ceiling which wasn't pouring with grease. (Emile Zola, Le Ventre de Paris)

Conjugation

Derived terms

• ne plus se sentir pisser
• pisse
• pissenlit
• pisseur, pisseuse
• pleuvoir comme vache qui pisse

Further reading

• “pisser” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• prises, prisse

Middle English

Noun

pisser

1. Alternative form of pissere

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French pissier, from Vulgar Latin *pissi?

Verb

pisser

1. (vulgar) to piss (excrete urine)

Conjugation

• Middle French conjugation varies from one text to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

pisser

1. present of pisse