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piss-pot
ˈpiss-pot Not now in polite use. [f. piss n. + pot n. So early mod.F. pissepot (1544).] a. A vessel, usually of earthenware, for urine; a chamber-pot.c 1440 Promp. Parv. 267/1 Iurdone, pyssepotte. 1529 More Suppl. Soulys ii. Wks. 195/1 And it happen to raine, out poure they pispottes vpon his hed. 1... Oxford English Dictionary
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Piss Pot Island
Piss Pot Island is an island on the South Branch Potomac River west of Romney in Hampshire County, West Virginia. Piss Pot Island received its name before 1755, the year it was included on Joshua Fry's and Peter Jefferson's Carte de la Virginie et du Maryland. Uncommon for islands of its size and ge... wikipedia.org
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piss poor / not a pot to piss in — Wordorigins.org
Sep 18, 2023Piss-poor is a combination of the two uses, using the metaphor underlying not a pot to piss in with piss - as an intensifier. The earliest use I know of is from a diary kept by Thomas Hirst Hayes, who was held as a prisoner-of-war by the Japanese in the Philippines. His diary entry for 13 March 1943 reads, in part:
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piss
▪ I. piss, v. Not now in polite use. (pɪs) Forms: α. 3–7 pisse, 4 pis, 4–6 pyss(e, 6– piss; β. 5 pysch-yn, 6 Sc. pisch(e, 6–8 Sc. pish. [ME. piss-en, a. OF. piss-ier (12th c. in Hatz.-Darm.), F. piss-er (Picard picher) = Pr. pissar (mod. pichá, Diez), Cat. pixar, Rhæt. pischar, It. pisciare, Rom. pi... Oxford English Dictionary
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Cunninghame Graham
However, he became disillusioned by the pettiness and dissent of those he called "piss-pot socialists" and increasingly turned to a nascent Scottish nationalism wikipedia.org
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Stuckist demonstrations
saw as the vacuity of Britart: "You can't help feeling that Saatchi's insipid sensationalism would make Duchamp wish that he'd never ever exhibited his piss-pot wikipedia.org
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