Talk:piss pot

Questionable sense: "someone who is regularily intoxicated". Rod (A. Smith) 01:14, 4 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Yes, I've definitely heard it in UK. Not so much recently, but that may be because I'm less often pissed (British sense). Synonym (for those who don't know Latin) would be always blotto. I'll add citing it to my "to do" list (unless Sb feels it's more his um...cup of tea ;-) ) --Enginear 17:19, 4 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Maybe when the room stops rotating! SemperBlotto 17:21, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

Is pisspot (meaning of useless or of little value) the adjective? for example "That is a pisspot idea". or "The Banana Republic is a pisspot country."; or is it piss pot? Andrew massyn 21:16, 4 June 2006 (UTC)


 * I think you might be thinking of "piss-poor". It is possible that "piss-pot" exists too as an adjective, but I have never heard it. &mdash; Paul G 09:59, 11 June 2006 (UTC)

Will remove rfv tag for second meaning. Andrew massyn 20:03, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

Adjectival sense of pisspot.
The adjectival sense of piss pot or pisspot is quite common. I'll try and find some quality cites later as it is too late here now. --Dmol 20:42, 23 May 2007 (UTC)


 * I suspect that such constructions are better interpreted as attributive placements of the noun "pisspot" as a modifier. One might say "You did a pisspot job" but I have my doubts about anyone intelligibly saying "That was pisspot" in the context of discussing the job.  Not even the OED shows a true adjectival sense, although the OED does recognize attributive usage of the noun, as in: 1619 H. HUTTON Follie's Anat. sig. A7, "A sowre pis-pot visage." -- WikiPedant 13:24, 24 May 2007 (UTC)