pissed off

adjective

Very annoyed, upset, angry.

First used mid-20th c.

Meanings

adjectivepissed off (comparative more pissed off, superlative most pissed off)

comparative more pissed off · superlative most pissed off

  1. colloquialidiomaticmildlyvulgarVery annoyed, upset, angry.First known use mid-20th c.

    1984, Dorothy Nelkin and Michael Stuart Brown, Workers at Risk: Voices from the Workplace, page 103, They don't like that kind of talk and that made me even more pissed off.

    3 more examples

    You cant disagree with the adopted values of a bunch of people without they get pissed off at you^([sic])

    1951, James Jones, From Here to Eternity, New York: Charles Scribner, page 277

    2001, in The Year's Best Science Fiction, page 196, When he'd cracked the tank and lifted Jesus the Rhesus out of the waters of rebirth, the monkey had seemed more pissed off at being sopping wet […]

    It's better to be pissed off than be pissed on. Unless you have a snakebite or you're on fire.

    2021, Mike J. Aronson, Whatever, page 164

    Synonyms: browned off, cheesed off, peed off, pissed, PO'd, p'd off, teed off, ticked off

verb
  1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of piss off

Synonyms & antonyms

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Translations

Catalan emprenyat
  • emprenyatannoyed, upset, angry
Chinese Mandarin 氣炸 /气炸
  • 氣炸 /气炸annoyed, upset, angry
Czech naštvaný, nasraný
  • naštvanýannoyed, upset, angry
  • nasranýannoyed, upset, angry
Finnish vihainen, vittuuntunut
  • vihainenannoyed, upset, angry
  • vittuuntunutannoyed, upset, angry
French vénère
  • vénèreannoyed, upset, angry
German sickig, angepisst
  • sickigannoyed, upset, angry
  • angepisstannoyed, upset, angry
Italian incazzato
  • incazzatoannoyed, upset, angry
Māori hōhā
  • hōhāannoyed, upset, angry
Polish wkurwiony, wkurzony
  • wkurwionyannoyed, upset, angry
  • wkurzonyannoyed, upset, angry
Russian злой, серди́тый
  • злой (zloj)annoyed, upset, angry
  • серди́тый (serdítyj)annoyed, upset, angry
Spanish cabreado, emputado
  • cabreadoannoyed, upset, angry
  • emputadoannoyed, upset, angry
  • encabronadoannoyed, upset, angry
  • puteadoannoyed, upset, angry
  • arrechoannoyed, upset, angry
Swedish förbannad
  • förbannadannoyed, upset, angry
Tagalog galit
  • galitannoyed, upset, angry
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