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Pissed vs Drink - What's the difference?

pissed | drink |

As verbs the difference between pissed and drink

is that pissed is past tense of piss while drink is to consume (a liquid) through the mouth.

As an adjective pissed

is drunk.

As a noun drink is

a beverage.

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

    Anagrams

    * English words with different meanings in different locations

    drink

    English

    Alternative forms

    * drinck (obsolete)

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .

    Verb

  • (ambitransitive) To consume (a liquid) through the mouth.
  • * Spenser
    • There lies she with the blessed gods in bliss, / There drinks the nectar with ambrosia mixed.
  • * Thackeray
    • the bowl of punch which was brewed and drunk in Mrs. Betty's room
  • *
    • , title=The Mirror and the Lamp , chapter=2 citation , passage=That the young Mr. Churchills liked—but they did not like him coming round of an evening and drinking weak whisky-and-water while he held forth on railway debentures and corporation loans. Mr. Barrett, however, by fawning and flattery, seemed to be able to make not only Mrs. Churchill but everyone else do what he desired.}}
  • To consume alcoholic beverages.
  • * Thackeray
    • Bolingbroke always spoke freely when he had drunk freely.
  • * Shakespeare
    • I drink to the general joy of the whole table, / And to our dear friend Banquo.
  • To take in (a liquid), in any manner; to suck up; to absorb; to imbibe.
  • * Dryden
    • Let the purple violets drink the stream.
  • To take in; to receive within one, through the senses; to inhale; to hear; to see.
  • * Tennyson
    • to drink the cooler air
  • * Shakespeare
    • My ears have not yet drunk a hundred words / Of that tongue's utterance.
  • * Alexander Pope
    • Let me drink delicious poison from thy eye.
  • (obsolete) To smoke, as tobacco.
  • * Taylor (1630)
    • And some men now live ninety years and past, / Who never drank tobacco first nor last.
    Synonyms
    * gulp, imbibe, quaff, sip, see also * (consume alcoholic beverages) drink alcohol
    Derived terms
    * drinkable * drink and drive * drinker * drinking * drink like a fish * drink under the table * drink up
    Related terms
    * drunken, drunk

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) . Compare (etyl) (m).

    Noun

  • A beverage.
  • A (served) alcoholic beverage.
  • The action of drinking, especially with the verbs take'' or ''have .
  • A type of beverage (usually mixed).
  • Alcoholic beverages in general.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1935, author= George Goodchild
    • , title=Death on the Centre Court, chapter=1 , passage=She mixed furniture with the same fatal profligacy as she mixed drinks , and this outrageous contact between things which were intended by Nature to be kept poles apart gave her an inexpressible thrill.}}
  • * '>citation
  • Any body of water.
  • (uncountable, archaic) Drinks in general; something to drink
  • * , (w) 25:35:
    • For I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink
    Usage notes
    * A plainer term than more elevated term (beverage). Beverage is of French origin, while drink is of Old English origin, and this stylistic difference by origin is common; see (list of English words with dual French and Anglo-Saxon variations).
    Synonyms
    * (served beverage) beverage, see also * (served alcoholic beverage) beverage, see also * (action of drinking) gulp, sip, swig * (type of beverage) beverage * (alcoholic beverages in general) alcohol
    Derived terms
    * the big drink * drink-driver * drink-driving * drive to drink * in the drink * straw that stirs the drink * take to drink