pissing

1. 1
   verb

   Present participle and gerund of piss.

   The doctor got worried when he admitted he'd been pissing blood for a week.

   Pissing in the street earned him a fine and a night in jail.

   Note

   The -ing form carries every meaning of the verb, and all of them are mildly vulgar. With an object it reports what comes out, as in pissing blood; with it as subject it means raining hard; and in British, Irish and Commonwealth speech it can mean doing something with ease. Among friends it passes; in polite company, urinating is the safe choice.

2. 2
   adjectiveslangvulgar

   Used before a noun as an intensifier, showing dislike of or annoyance at the thing it names.

   Somebody tell me how to turn off this pissing alarm before I throw it out the window.

   We waited three hours for the pissing bus, and then it drove straight past us.

   Similarbloody, damn, bleeding, frigging

   Note

   A curse that sits in front of a noun and adds nothing but temper: the pissing computer is no worse a machine than before, only more resented. It never takes more or most and never follows its noun. Its home is spoken frustration; on the page it reads as crude slang.

3. 3
   nounvulgaruncountable

   An act of urinating.

   All that pissing against the back wall has left the whole yard stinking.

   The tomcat's nightly pissings on the porch finally drove the neighbors to call animal control.

   Note

   The noun usually names the activity in general and stays uncountable: all that pissing against the wall. The plural pissings counts separate acts, and territorial pissings borrows the picture of an animal marking its ground. It is crude enough to keep out of anything formal, where urination does the same work.

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