pisspot

plural pisspots · alternative piss pot

1. datedslangvulgarA portable container used for urination, especially in hospitals or in the absence of indoor plumbing; a chamber pot.

   He was fumbling in his little night-table, where he keeps his pisspot.

   1974, Angela Carter, Fireworks, page 115

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   Beauty looks like a pisspot. I tell her so. A compliment because the golden urine of life is poured into her by her Father the Sun. Hence, the Sun is sitting on a pisspot. That pisspot is the Zodiac.

   1972, Aleister Crowley et al., The Magical Record of the Beast 666: The Diaries of Aleister Crowley, 1914-1920, page 103

   Upstairs, Cornelius van den Meer is calling for the pisspot to be emptied.

   2000, Gregory Maguire, Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister, page 252

   Synonyms: can, chamber, chamber pot, chemical toilet, commode, Cousin John, crapper, gazunder

2. derogatoryslangvulgarA very unpleasant person, particularly a mean, nasty, or contemptible one.

   That ought to satisfy the pisspot sons of bitches, he thought as he transmitted his apology to the spacecraft orbiting above.

   1992, Ben Bova, Mars, page 102

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   ‘I′m sorry about your place. It′s not my doing,’ I said. ‘Like hell it isn′t.’ Then a yellow tooth glinted behind his lip and he added, ‘You little pisspot.’

   1996, James Lee Burke, Cadillac Jukebox, page 270

   By now a large crowd had gathered; when she learned the kid was dead a sobbing Deluvina Maxwell cursed Garrett and pounded his chest. “You pisspot!” she raged, “you sonofabitch!”

   1998, Frederick Nolan, The West of Billy the Kid, page 287

   Synonyms: assbag, assbreath, assbucket, asschunk, asscunt, assface, assfag, assfaggot

3. derogatoryslangvulgarAn unpleasant or disgusting place or thing.

   “It should have been you who threw the feast, to welcome me back,” Ramsay complained, “and it should have been in Barrow Hall, not this pisspot of a castle.”

   2011, George R. R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons, page 498

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   He sailed it out the hatch into the harbor, then shrugged off the wrap and balanced it in his hand. “Do for wiping rags, I guess,” he muttered. “I won′t be sorry to look down on this pisspot world, though.”

   2005, David Drake, The Way To Glory, page 198

   It was only the pisspots of the world that made it. The most dangerous places. The unstable countries, the feudal states, the anarchic backwaters, places you wouldn′t dare walk out the door without a gun, where bodyguards were fashion accessories—those places did a lot better in the end.

   2006, David Wellington, Monster Island, page 11

4. derogatoryslangvulgarA large quantity.

   “Damned successful. In fact, I have made a veritable pisspot of money.”

   1966, Robert Carson, The Outsiders, page 225

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   “A whole colony?” Lightnin′ Jim swallowed. “That′ll cost you a whole pisspot of loot, Princess.”

   1980, Ron Goulart, Hail Hibbler, page 88

   The shipowners are pissed off and will need a pisspot of money thrown at them to go away.

   2001 September 8, Peter Skelton, “Norwegian Ship Boarded”, in sci.military.naval (Usenet)

   Synonyms: shitload, metric shitload, shitton, ton, load

5. AustraliaderogatoryslangvulgarA consumer of large quantities of alcohol; a drunkard.

   I mean, the bastard was an absolute bloody pisspot. The prick got the sack later anyway, for being drunk on the job.

   2011, Bill Marsh, Great Australian Railway Stories, page 48

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   “Today my son said to me, ‘You're a pisspot, dad, a bloody pisspot.’ You know what that Australian word ‘pisspot’ means, Kapetan Nikola? A ‘metho’, a drunkard. He called me, his own father, a ‘metho’...”

   1983, The Strength of Tradition: Stories of the Immigrant Presence in Australia, 1970-81, page 163

   I would get indignant at magazine articles that characterised Australia as a nation of pisspots. I remember one in particular because I was nearly inspired to write a letter to the editor. ‘Australians,’ claimed the journalist, ‘drank until they threw up on their shoes.’ And then I realised there was a good deal of truth in all this. Quite a few Australians do drink until they throw up on their shoes. I have done it myself.

   1988, Kate Jennings, “Cold Water”, in Trouble: Evolution of a Radical, Selected Writings 1970-2010, page 77

   Synonyms: pisshead, alco, alcoholic, alkie, bacchanal, bacchant, barfly, bibber

6. datedslangvulgarA doctor.