pissere

Middle English

Alternative forms

• pisser, pissare

Etymology

From pisse +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpisər(ə)/

Noun

pissere (plural pisseres) (rare, vulgar)

1. A pisser; one who urinates.
2. A soldier, particularly one seen as a rogue or scoundrel.
3. (In certain phrases such as "pissere to the wal"): A male human being, a man, a male.
   • John Wycliffe, Wycliffe's Bible 1 Samuel 25:34:

     ...ellis the Lord God of Israel lyueth, which forbeed me, `lest Y dide yuel to thee, if thou haddist not soone come in to `metyng to me, a pissere to the wal schulde not haue left to Nabal til to the morewe liyt.

     (direct translation) ...otherwise, as the Lord God of Israel, who has forbidden me from hurting you, lives, if you had not come quickly to meet me, not a pisser against the wall should have been left to Nabal at daybreak. (functional translation, New International Version) ...Otherwise, as surely as the LORD, the God of Israel, lives, who has kept me from harming you, if you had not come quickly to meet me, not one male belonging to Nabal would have been left alive by daybreak.”

Descendants

• English: pisser

References

• “pisser(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-08-21.