Wiss vs Piss - What's the difference?
wiss | piss |
(archaic) To know, to understand.
* 1652 , Elias Ashmole, Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum :
* 1874 , Dodsley et al., A Select Collection of Old English Plays :
(vulgar) Urine.
(vulgar, slang) Alcoholic beverage, especially of inferior quality.
(vulgar) To urinate.
(vulgar) To discharge as or with the urine.
As nouns the difference between wiss and piss
is that wiss is meadow, pasture while piss is (vulgar) urine.As a verb piss is
(vulgar) to urinate.wiss
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Alternative forms
* wisVerb
- Now with their might they downe me pull, and bring me where they woll, the Blood of myne heart I wiss now causeth both Joy and blisse.
- And though that the water be gross and heavy, yet nothing so gross as the earth, I wiss ; therefore by heat it is vapoured up lightly, and in the air maketh clouds and mists.
piss
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Noun
- 1611' ''Monster, I do smell all horse-'''piss ; at which my nose is in great indignation.'' — Shakespeare, ''The Tempest , Act 4, Scene 1.
- 2005' ''There in a puddle of '''piss sat Princess Fatima, her dress up over her knees, vomit dripping onto her bodice'' - Richard Connelly Miller, ''Tanglefoot
Synonyms
* See alsoVerb
- 1601' ''O Jove, a beastly fault! And then another fault in the semblance of a fowl; think on ’t, Jove; a foul fault! When gods have hot backs, what shall poor men do? For me, I am here a Windsor stag; and the fattest, I think, i’ the forest. Send me a cool rut-time, Jove, or who can blame me '''to piss my tallow? Who comes here? my doe?'' — Shakespeare, ''The Merry Wives of Windsor , Act 5, Scene 5.