pissing post

noun

A cylinder-shaped public urinal, formerly used as a site for posting public notices.

First used 17th c.
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Meanings

nounpissing post (plural pissing posts)

plural pissing posts

  1. historicalA cylinder-shaped public urinal, formerly used as a site for posting public notices.First known use 17th c.

    “I thank you for your good will, my dear,” answered the patient husband; “you would promote me to the honour of being a pissing-post."

    1751, [Tobias] Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC
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    Only a month ago I was admired by princes, adored by women, idolised by the common people, and now I was a nobody the dogs used as a pissing-post.

    1999, Mike Mitchell, translating HJC von Grimmelshausen, Simplicissimus, IV.7, Dedalus 2016, p. 302

    They pasted the bills on the doors of taverns and houses, and on pissing posts provided for the convenience of those who walked the streets.

    2011, John Sutherland, How Literature Works, page 55
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