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Pickled vs Pissed - What's the difference?

pickled | pissed |

As verbs the difference between pickled and pissed

is that pickled is past tense of pickle while pissed is past tense of piss.

As adjectives the difference between pickled and pissed

is that pickled is preserved by pickling while pissed is drunk.

pickled

English

Verb

(head)
  • (pickle)
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Preserved by pickling.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1959, author=(Georgette Heyer), title=(The Unknown Ajax), chapter=1
  • , passage=But Richmond
  • (label) 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