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Pissed vs Mortified - What's the difference?

pissed | mortified |

As verbs the difference between pissed and mortified

is that pissed is (piss) while mortified is (mortify).

As an adjective pissed

is (uk|australia|new zealand|south africa|canada|colloquial) drunk.

pissed

English

Verb

(head)
  • (piss)
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (UK, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Canada, colloquial) Drunk.
  • * {{quote-book
  • , year=1996 , 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 , 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.
  • * 2008 , Terry Beresford, ''Shiner, 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.
  • (US, Canada, vulgar, colloquial) Annoyed, angry.
  • * 1987 , Jeb Stuart, Steven E. DeSouza, , “Holly and Ginny” scene 287:
  • That one look pissed Ms. Gennero...
  • * 1989 , Judith Stiehm, Arms And The Enlisted Woman , 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.
  • * 2009 , Steve Serby, No Substitute for Sundays: Brett Favre and His Year in the Huddle with the New York Jets , 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.

    Usage notes

    In Canada, pissed'' can mean either ''drunk'' or ''angry''. The term pissed off is commonly used to unambiguously give the meaning ''angry .

    Synonyms

    * (drunk) drunk, intoxicated, bladdered, blotto, plastered, rat-arsed; see also * pissed off; see also

    See also

    * pissed as a newt

    mortified

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (mortify)

  • mortify

    English

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • (obsolete) To kill.
  • (obsolete) To reduce the potency of; to nullify; to deaden, neutralize.
  • * Francis Bacon
  • Quicksilver is mortified with turpentine.
  • * Hakewill
  • He mortified pearls in vinegar.
  • (obsolete) To kill off (living tissue etc.); to make necrotic.
  • *, II.3:
  • *:Servius the Grammarian being troubled with the gowt, found no better meanes to be rid of it, than to apply poison to mortifie his legs.
  • To discipline (one's body, appetites etc.) by suppressing desires; to practise abstinence on.
  • Some people seek sainthood by mortifying the body.
  • * Harte
  • With fasting mortified , worn out with tears.
  • * Prior
  • Mortify thy learned lust.
  • * Bible, Col. iii. 5
  • Mortify , therefore, your members which are upon the earth.
  • (usually, used passively) To embarrass, to humiliate.
  • I was so mortified I could have died right there, instead I fainted, but I swore I'd never let that happen to me again.
  • *
  • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=5 , passage=Then we relapsed into a discomfited silence, and wished we were anywhere else. But Miss Thorn relieved the situation by laughing aloud, and with such a hearty enjoyment that instead of getting angry and more mortified we began to laugh ourselves, and instantly felt better.}}
  • (obsolete) To affect with vexation, chagrin, or humiliation; to humble; to depress.
  • * Evelyn
  • the news of the fatal battle of Worcester, which exceedingly mortified our expectations
  • * Addison
  • How often is the ambitious man mortified with the very praises he receives, if they do not rise so high as he thinks they ought!
  • (Scotland, legal, historical) To grant in mortmain
  • * 1876 James Grant, History of the Burgh and Parish Schools of Scotland , Part II, Chapter 14, p.453 ( PDF 2.7 MB):
  • the schoolmasters of Ayr were paid out of the mills mortified by Queen Mary