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pisser (s.xii1/3)

The form piscer is a cross reference to the following entry:

pisser (s.xii1/3)

piscer,  piser,  pisier,  pisseir,  pissir,  pissier,  pysser  (peser  A-N Med ii 246.99)  
  FEW:  *pissiare 8,587a Gdf: GdfC:  pissier 10,345a TL: pissier 7,977 DEAF:  pissier 1  DMF:  pisser  TLF:  pisser  OED:  piss v.  MED:  pissen v.  DMLBS:

With the exception of perhaps the citation from Respit, there is no indication that this verb already had any connotation of coarse language.

v.trans.

to urinate, pass with or like urine
( s.xii1/3; MS: s.xiiex )  La piere pisse en gravele  Lapid 49
( s.xiii2/4; MS: s.xiii3/4 )  Si ce avient que on pisse sanc par superfluité du sanc du foie [...]  A-N Med i 236
( 1266-1300; MS: s.xiv1/4 )  Ne fais mies bon de trop user, car le trop user fait pisier sanc  Waterford busby 307.S131.4
( s.xiv2; MS: s.xiv2 )  pernez – cete, si la entendez, est la soveraine medicine – un vif buk de treis anz, mettez en un lieu deke seit defié e veudé de sa viande q'il ad mangé, pus la receivez la tierce urine q'il i piscera  A-N Med ii 240

v.intrans.

to urinate, make water
( s.xiii4/4; MS: 1307-15 )  Cesti Eilred, kant il fust enfant e dust estre baptizé de Seint Dunstan, pissa el font; e donc dist le erceveske: ‘[...] Cesti serra failli e de mal affere’  Reis Engl1 86
( s.xiii2; MS: s.xiii2 )  Aloysgne quit en vin feit bien pisser  Med Pres1 134.16
( c.1300?; MS: s.xivm )  Pur hom que ad mal en la vessie et ne put pisseir [...]  Med Comp ANTS 536
( s.xiv2; MS: s.xiv2 )  Uncore si dolour neist en la veissie e si il pise ad grant grevance [...]  A-N Med ii 255

sbst. inf.

urinating, passing water
( c.1240; MS: s.xiii3/4 )  [u]ne grevance de pissier que est apelé stranguria  A-N Med i 82.xliv

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See also:

compisser  pis1  pissade  pissas  pisse1  pissure 
This is an AND2 Phase 4 (N-O/U-P-Q) entry. © 2013-17 The Anglo-Norman Dictionary. All rights reserved. Funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council of the United Kingdom.
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