Offended vs Pissed - What's the difference?
offended | pissed |
(offend)
(transitive) To hurt the feelings of; to displease; to make angry; to insult.
*{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=6 (intransitive) To feel or become offended, take insult.
(transitive) To physically harm, pain.
(transitive) To annoy, cause discomfort or resent.
(intransitive) To sin, transgress divine law or moral rules.
(transitive) To transgress or violate a law or moral requirement.
(obsolete, transitive, archaic, biblical) To cause to stumble; to cause to sin or to fall.
* 1896 , Adolphus Frederick Schauffler, Select Notes on the International Sunday School Lessons , W. A. Wilde company, Page 161,
* New Testament'', Matthew 5:29 (''Sermon on the Mount ),
(piss)
(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 ,
* 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 verbs the difference between offended and pissed
is that offended is (offend) while pissed is (piss).As an adjective pissed is
(uk|australia|new zealand|south africa|canada|colloquial) drunk.offended
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(head)offend
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(en verb)citation, passage=‘[…] I remember a lady coming to inspect St. Mary's Home where I was brought up and seeing us all in our lovely Elizabethan uniforms we were so proud of, and bursting into tears all over us because “it was wicked to dress us like charity children”. We nearly crowned her we were so offended . She saw us but she didn't know us, did she?’.}}
- "If any man offend not (stumbles not, is not tripped up) in word, the same is a perfect man."
- "If thine eye offend thee, pluck it out."
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* (English Citations of "offend")Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* offendedly * offendedness * offender * reoffendExternal links
* *pissed
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(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.
