piss
12 synonyms for piss, grouped by meaning and by how common each one is.
Noun — Vulgar slang for urine.
Synonyms
Everyday swaps
Common words most readers know — safe in any writing.
Less common
Still standard English, but they carry more weight.
Rare, literary or technical
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Synonyms by Meaning
1. noun
Vulgar slang for urine.
“The alley smelled of stale piss.”
How to use piss
The word patterns that sound natural to a native speaker.
piss down
take the piss
Considered vulgar; avoid in formal or polite writing.
Etymology
From Middle English pisse/pissen, from Old French pissier, likely of imitative origin — it replaced the Old English word micge.
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