pissy

From piss + -y.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɪsi/

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• Rhymes: -ɪsi

pissy (comparative pissier, superlative pissiest)(slang, vulgar)

1. Soaked or dirtied by urine.

   David's father immediately threw his baby's pissy clothes into the wash.

2. Resembling or smelling like urine.
   • 1980 December 13, Mitzel, “Dale Barbre's Murder Transformed”, in Gay Community News, volume 8, number 21, page 12:

     Dan Valentine works as a bartender in a pissy and discreet Boston Village gay bar called "Bonaparte's".

   I admit the car still has a pissy smell from what happened last year.

   1. (of rain) Weak and drizzly.

      I wish these pissy rain showers would either build up into a storm or go away.

3. Anal retentive, whinging and pernickety.

   Stop being pissy: you knew what I meant when I said "Don't touch the dial", but you prodded the dial with a fork.

5. Annoyed; angry; in a bad mood; pissed off.

   Synonyms: shitty; see also Thesaurus:annoyed; Thesaurus:angry

6. Worthless; crappy.
   • 2001, Lesley Choyce, Cold Clear Morning, page 239:

     About those times when she'd stay here while you were out on the road with your pissy little band, off to Truro or Moncton or wherever. What do you think she was doing back here? Helping her mom with the laundry?