different between pisser vs twister

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

English

Etymology

From Middle English twyster, equivalent to twist +? -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?tw?st?(?)/
• Rhymes: -?st?(r)

Noun

twister (plural twisters)

1. One who twists.
   1. One whose occupation is to twist or join the threads of one warp to those of another, in weaving.
2. The instrument used in twisting, or making twists.
   • 1653, John Wallis, Grammatica Linguæ Anglicanæ

     He, twirling his twister, makes a twist of the twine.

3. A ball delivered with a twist, as in cricket or billiards.
4. (colloquial) A tornado.
5. (carpentry) A girder

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Craig to this entry?)

6. (dated) The inner part of the thigh, the proper place to rest upon when on horseback.
7. (Britain, colloquial) A crook, a villain.
8. The party game Twister, usually capitalized, or a variant.

Translations

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:twister.

Derived terms

• titty twister
• tongue-twister

See also

• dust devil
• water spout
• willy-willy

Anagrams

• Witters, retwist, witters, writest

French

Etymology

From twist +? -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /twis.te/

Verb

twister

1. (dance) to dance the twist, to twist

Conjugation

Further reading

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