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English
Etymology
From piss (“urine”) + proud. Appears in Francis Grose’s A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue (1796):
- “PISS-PROUD. Having a false erection. That old fellow thought he had an erection, but his — was only piss-proud; said of any old fellow who marries a young wife”.[1]
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piss proud (not comparable)
- (British, vulgar) Having an erection when waking from sleep or, more generally or metaphorically, a false or "empty" erection.
1988, George O'Brien, Dancehall Days, page 150:I fucked culture for being unnatural (it was nothing but the city's piss-proud erection).
- (British, vulgar, by extension) Falsely proud, implying an outward display of success or virility belies a dubious reality.
2000, Sandra Gulland, The Many Lives and Secret Sorrows of Josephine B, page 30:And my guess is that his piss-proud father told him...
2003, Maureen Jennings, Let Loose the Dogs, page 291:Full of the strong beer brewed at the camp, the men boasted, piss proud of their sexual exploits.
- (British, derogatory, dated) Denoting an old man who marries a young woman, implying the only erection he could muster would be prompted by the bladder.[1][2]
- (rare) Paruretic.
1998, Richard H. Stratton, Kim Wozencraft, Slam: The Book, page 106:I really have to go, but nothing comes out. Not used to pissing next to twenty strangers. Piss proud?
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