Definition of "pisspot"
pisspot
noun
plural pisspots
(vulgar slang, dated) A portable container used for urination, especially in hospitals or in the absence of indoor plumbing; a chamber pot.
Quotations
Beauty looks like a pisspot. I tell her so. A compliment because the golden urine of life is poured into her by her Father the Sun. Hence, the Sun is sitting on a pisspot. That pisspot is the Zodiac.
1972, Aleister Crowley et al., The Magical Record of the Beast 666: The Diaries of Aleister Crowley, 1914-1920, page 103
(vulgar slang, derogatory) A very unpleasant person, particularly a mean, nasty, or contemptible one.
Quotations
(vulgar slang, derogatory) An unpleasant or disgusting place or thing.
Quotations
It was only the pisspots of the world that made it. The most dangerous places. The unstable countries, the feudal states, the anarchic backwaters, places you wouldn′t dare walk out the door without a gun, where bodyguards were fashion accessories—those places did a lot better in the end.
2006, David Wellington, Monster Island, page 11
(vulgar slang, derogatory, Australia) A consumer of large quantities of alcohol; a drunkard.
Quotations
“Today my son said to me, ‘You're a pisspot, dad, a bloody pisspot.’ You know what that Australian word ‘pisspot’ means, Kapetan Nikola? A ‘metho’, a drunkard. He called me, his own father, a ‘metho’...”
1983, The Strength of Tradition: Stories of the Immigrant Presence in Australia, 1970-81, page 163
I would get indignant at magazine articles that characterised Australia as a nation of pisspots. I remember one in particular because I was nearly inspired to write a letter to the editor. ‘Australians,’ claimed the journalist, ‘drank until they threw up on their shoes.’ And then I realised there was a good deal of truth in all this. Quite a few Australians do drink until they throw up on their shoes. I have done it myself.
1988, Kate Jennings, “Cold Water”, in Trouble: Evolution of a Radical, Selected Writings 1970-2010, page 77