Lively vs Pissed - What's the difference?
lively | pissed |
Full of life; energetic.
* 1671 , (John Milton), (Samson Agonistes)
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, title= Bright; vivid; glowing; strong; vigorous.
* 1704 , (Isaac Newton), (Opticks): Or, A Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections and Colours of Light
* 1688 , (Robert South), Sacramental Preparation: Set forth in a Sermon on Matthew 5, 12.
(archaic) Endowed with or manifesting life; living.
* c. 1600 , (Philemon Holland)
(archaic) Representing life; lifelike.
* 1632 , (Philip Massinger) and (Nathan Field), (The Fatal Dowry)
(archaic) Airy; animated; spirited.
* 1734 , (Alexander Pope), (An Essay on Man)
(of beer) Fizzy; foamy; tending to produce a large head in the glass.
(nautical)
* 1846 , (Herman Melville), (Typee)
(obsolete) In a lifelike manner.
* , III.i:
*, Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, p.220-1:
Vibrantly, vividly.
(piss)
(UK, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Canada, colloquial) Drunk.
* {{quote-book
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, author=Hunter Davies
, title=The Beatles
, page=79
, passage=The waiters would send us up beer onstage as well as food, so now and again we'd end up getting pissed while we were playing.}}
* 2006 , Dean Riley, The Reveller: Every Lie Has Eighty Percent Truth ,
* 2008 , Terry Beresford, ''Shiner,
(US, Canada, vulgar, colloquial) Annoyed, angry.
* 1987 , Jeb Stuart, Steven E. DeSouza, , “Holly and Ginny” scene 287:
* 1989 , Judith Stiehm, Arms And The Enlisted Woman ,
* 2009 , Steve Serby, No Substitute for Sundays: Brett Favre and His Year in the Huddle with the New York Jets ,
As a proper noun lively
is .As a verb pissed is
(piss).As an adjective pissed is
(uk|australia|new zealand|south africa|canada|colloquial) drunk.lively
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) lyvely, lifly, from (etyl) .Alternative forms
* (l) (obsolete)Adjective
(er)- But wherefore comes old Manoa in such haste, / With youthful steps? Much livelier than erewhile / He seems.
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=[…] St.?Bede's at this period of its history was perhaps the poorest and most miserable parish in the East End of London. Close-packed, crushed by the buttressed height of the railway viaduct, rendered airless by huge walls of factories, it at once banished lively interest from a stranger's mind and left only a dull oppression of the spirit.}}
Tottenham 3-1 Shamrock Rovers, passage=But with the lively Dos Santos pulling the strings behind strikers Pavlyuchenko and Defoe, Spurs controlled the first half without finding the breakthrough their dominance deserved.}}
- The colours of the prism are manifestly more full, intense, and lively that those of natural bodies.
- His faith must be not only living, but lively too.
- chaplets of gold and silver resembling lively flowers and leaves
- I spied the lively picture of my father.
- From grave to gay, from lively to severe.
Usage notes
* Nouns to which "lively" is often applied: person, character, lady, woman, man, audience, personality, art, guide, activity, game, lesson, introduction, discussion, debate, writing, image, town, city, village, etc.Derived terms
* look livelyNoun
(livelies)- Speak the word, my livelies , and I'll pilot her in.
Etymology 2
From (etyl) .Adverb
(en adverb)- Him to a dainty flowre she did transmew, / Which in that cloth was wrought, as if it liuely grew.
- the Painter Protogenes .
Anagrams
* *pissed
English
Verb
(head)Adjective
(en adjective)page 201,
- We finished the bottle off and I was more pissed than ever, I was a fucking mess, and Johnny carried me to bed.
page 24,
- We drank, getting more and more pissed , and as we did, these four birds were growing more and more attractive, so we all sat down with them, but none of them wanted to know us, just Peter, dirty fucking bastard he was.
- That one look pissed Ms. Gennero...
page 255,
- Some women were physically incapable, and the guys would say, “See, I told you women can?t hack it.” The more I saw of that, the more pissed I got, and the more determined I got to stick it out.
page xv,
- So I was already pissed' at Bill to begin with, for what happened with the O?Donnell disaster the year before, and now I was even more ' pissed at the fuckin? guy.