Middle English Dictionary Entry
pissing(e ger.
Entry Info
| Forms | pissing(e ger. Also pisinge. |
| Etymology |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) The act of urinating, urination; ~ of blod, discharge of blood with the urine; difficulte (hardnesse) of ~, hard (streit) ~, pathological retention of urine; (b) urine; (c) ~ place, ?a privy; ~ pokes, private parts; ~ pot (vessel), chamber pot; anat. ~ pores, the renal veins and the ureters, regarded as two parts of the same structure; (d) in place name.
Associated quotations
a
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)96a/a : Thei þat haueþ þe ston, þey haueþ manye disauauntagis, difficulte ofte pissinge [L vrinandi] wiþ colica passio & oþir soche..som tyme þe weyes beþ alle I-stoppid, and pissinge is al forbode.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)215b/b : Apium..helpeþ also aȝeins þe stoon and aȝens difficultee of pissynge [L stranguiriam].
- a1425 *Medulla (Stnh A.1.10)22a/a : Dissuria: of hard pyssynge.
- a1450 Chauliac(4) (Cai 336/725)32/25 : Of þe stoon in þe bladdre, & for cause of comynynge or entermetynge in þe reynes, as of streite pissynge.
- ?a1450 Arderne LW (Em 69)115 : [Dysuria is classified under..suppression..and] dyfficulte, i.e. hardnesse, of pyssynge [or retention].
- ?c1450 Stockh.PRecipes (Stockh 10.90)135/16 : For pyssyng of blod.
b
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)289b/a : He casteþ fro him fagynge pissynge [L vrinam] and venemous.
- c1440 Thrn.Med.Bk.(Thrn)3/3 : Take bulles pyssynge & do þer-to vertgrese &..anoynte thi hede þer-with.
- c1440 Thrn.Med.Bk.(Thrn)35/32 : Take wormot, mynt, camamyll..floures of roses, sawge..& crommes of soure brede, and welle þam alle wele in white wyne or pyssyng clarifiede, & mak þan a plaster of þam.
- c1440 Thrn.Med.Bk.(Thrn)38/1 : Tak rede nettills, salt, & pyssynge, & sethe þam wele.
- ?c1475 *Cath.Angl.(Add 15562)96a : Pissynge: locium animalium, vrina & vrinula hominum.
c
- a1425 *Medulla (Stnh A.1.10)60a/b : Sifon: a pissynge potte.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)106 : Cukkynge, or pysynge vesselle: Scaphium.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)402 : Pyssynge place: Oletum. Pyssynge vesselle:..madula, madellum, scaphium.
- a1450 Castle Persev.(Folg V.a.354)2294 : Men and wommen hathe no dowte Wyth pyssynge pokys for to pleye; I bynde hem in my bondys.
- c1475(1392) *MS Wel.564 (Wel 564)43a/a : Wiþ þe bladder nyȝ his necke ben conteyned þe lowere pissinge poris bringinge þe pisse from þe reynes, which priuily entriþ þe holis of þe vttere tunicle of þe bladdre.
d
- (1425-6) in Ekwall Street-Names Lond.166 : Pissynglane.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
Note: Med., etc. (sense (a)), see further J.Norri, Dictionary of Medical Vocabulary, s.v. pissing of blood.