Wicked Good Guide to Boston English /
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Do you know that in Finnish Pissa is the same as pee?Good for you !?LOOOVESari&Anja
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Pissa=pissed off. i.e. "I got in late last night and my mom was wicked pissa."
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When someone explains something is pissa, it is usually a bad thing, as in sarcasm. For example when I was working at Dunkin Donuts as a kid and someone asked, " I need foah lahge regulah coffees, and three dozen donuts", we always said, "Oh, Pissa!"Although, when something is wicked pissa, it is usually a good thing. I can't recall hearing someone say wicked pissa in a negative fashion."Did you go to the Aerosmith consit?", "Yeah-r-I did! It was wicked pissa!"Of course there can be exceptions, but Boston sarchasm comes across pretty strong.
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Pissa can also be used to describe someone who is giving you a hard time. For example: "You know Timmy, you're a real pissa." Also in more working class bars in Boston it can be used as another name for the bathroom. "Hey Murph, watch my beer I got to go the pissa."
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i've only heard "pissa" as the bathroom
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Hey pissah has two meanings it can be good as in "O man you got Halo that's wicked pissah" or it can be negative as in "Damn I just stepped in dog shit that's just pissah."
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Pissa is one of those words that has a variety of meanings though I believe that the primary meaning is positive, which is how I always use it.Some examples:"Hey, is that your new guitah? Pissa.""Hey, you chicks wanna go out with me and my buddy here? Pissa."Hey, how's that new album? I heard it was f***ing pissa.""And you're bringing it to the party? Wicked pissa, man."
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In the movie Airplane! you can actually hear the original expression that pissa came from when Robert Hays is upset and says, "What a pisser!"
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The term 'pissa' predates Airplane by years, if not a decade or more. The fully etymology probably traces back to some of the townies in the colonial era.
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The meaning of Pissa is found in how you say it, sometimes good sometimes bad.There are also 3 levels of "pissa"1. Pissa2. Wicked Pissa3. Wicked Fucking Pissa
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When you drop a pot of badadas you may say "ahhhhh pissa!"Or if you shart you might shake out the poop and say "awwwwwww pissa I just took a shitta!"
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Pissa meant "cool" or "great" in parts of Boston. That is slang from 35 years ago. No one uses the word anymore. Only older folks vaguely remember what it means.
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My friends and I always used pissa as a noun referring to a negative situation. As in "I had to wait 45 minutes at the doctor's office. It was a wicked pissa!" In the same context you could say "wicked f***in pissa" and it would mean the same thing.
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Pissa can mean something good or something bad it just depends on what context you use it in, and your voice inflection.He’s a pissaGood-Said with a smile when talking about a friend who did something funny or crazy.Bad- When said with anger because a guy went back on his word or did something out of line