Pissed vs Irritated - What's the difference?
pissed | irritated |
(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 pissed and irritated
is that pissed is past tense of piss while irritated is past tense of irritate.As adjectives the difference between pissed and irritated
is that pissed is drunk while irritated is experiencing a feeling of irritation.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.