pisspot
: piss pot
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Étymologie[modifier le wikicode]
- (Date à préciser) Du moyen anglais pyssepotte, équivalent de piss + pot.
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- (Vulgaire) (Vieilli) Pot de chambre.
He was fumbling in his little night-table, where he keeps his pisspot.
— (Angela Carter, Fireworks, 1974, page 115.)Upstairs, Cornelius van den Meer is calling for the pisspot to be emptied.
— (Gregory Maguire, Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister, page 252, 2000.)
- (Argot) (Vulgaire) (Péjoratif) Personne désagréable, sale ou dédaigneuse.
That ought to satisfy the pisspot sons of bitches, he thought as he transmitted his apology to the spacecraft orbiting above.
— (Ben Bova, Mars, 1992, page 102.)‘I′m sorry about your place. It′s not my doing,’ I said.
— (James Lee Burke, Cadillac Jukebox, 1996, page 270.)
‘Like hell it isn′t.’ Then a yellow tooth glinted behind his lip and he added, ‘You little pisspot.’
- (Argot) (Vulgaire) (Péjoratif) Lieu ou chose déplaisant ou dégoûtant.
It should have been you who threw the feast, to welcome me back,” Ramsay complained, “and it should have been in Barrow Hall, not this pisspot of a castle.
— (George R. R. Martin, A dance with Dragons, 2011, page 498.)- (Argot) (Vulgaire) (Péjoratif) Tonne, masse (une grande quantité de quelque chose).
Damned successful. In fact, I have made a veritable pisspot of money.
— (Robert Carson, The Outsiders, 1966, page 225.)
- (Argot) (Vulgaire) (Péjoratif) (Australie) Ivrogne.
Today my son said to me, ‘You're a pisspot, dad, a bloody pisspot.’ You know what that Australian word ‘pisspot’ means, Kapetan Nikola? A ‘metho’, a drunkard. He called me, his own father, a ‘metho’…
— (The Strength of Tradition: Stories of the Immigrant Presence in Australia, 1970-81, 1983, page 163.)I mean, the bastard was an absolute bloody pisspot. The prick got the sack later anyway, for being drunk on the job.
— (Bill Marsh, Great Australian Railway Stories, 2011, page 48.)
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Pot de chambre :
- → voir chamber pot
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- Australie : écouter « pisspot [Prononciation ?] »
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