Re: English Vocabulary Update


Fri, 15 Sep 1995 17:08:23 GMT

In <437g3v$oce@newsbf02.news.aol.com>, jzahn@aol.com (JZahn) writes:
>"Pissed" in England means "drunk/intoxicated," while in America it either
>means "angry" or the past tense of a slang term for urination.
>
It's a somewhat vulgar word, but neither slang nor American. You'll find it
used twice in 2nd Samuel in the King James Bible (US) / Authorized Version
(UK), where a Hebrew idiom for "male human being" is literally translated
twice as "one that pisseth against the wall". (Most modern translations
quietly substitute "male".)