Speakur

Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

piss

/pɪs/

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.17 in modern English

Syllables
piss
IPA
/pɪs/
6
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
3
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Urine.

Uncountable

noun

The act of urinating.

Countable

noun

Alcoholic beverage, especially of inferior quality.

Countable; Uncountable

noun

An intensifier.

Countable; Uncountable

verb

To urinate.

Intransitive verb

verb

To discharge as or with the urine.

Transitive verb

verb

To achieve easily.

British usage; Slang; Transitive verb

verb

To rain heavily.

Slang

Example Sentences

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”).

Origin

Word Breakdown

Usage

Inflected Forms

pisses (plural) pisses (present, singular) pissing (participle, present) pissed (participle, past) pissed (past)

Derived Forms

bepiss cowpiss midpiss outpiss pissabed pissant pissaphone pissass pissbaby pissbag pissboy pissbrain

Phrases

boil someone's piss cat piss couldn't organise a piss-up in a brewery couldn't piss a hole in the snow cow piss drinker don't piss in the wind and tell me it's raining don't piss on my leg and tell me it's raining frighten the piss out of

Synonyms

urinate peeing pee pissing urine piddle weewee water

Rhymes With

this miss chris kiss swiss dismiss bliss dis kris sis mis vis

Questions

How do you pronounce piss?
The recorded pronunciation is /pɪs/.
What does piss mean?
Urine.
Where does piss come from?
It is traced to Middle English.

How to pronounce piss

  1. Open the pronunciation page — Open the Speakur entry for “piss”.
  2. Read the phonetic spelling — Read the IPA spelling (/pɪs/) so you know which sounds to aim for.
  3. Play the audio — Click Play to hear reference audio for “piss”.
  4. Repeat and practice — Say “piss” aloud, matching stress and vowels until it feels natural.