# Pee-waddlin' piss **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [December 16, 2007, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pee-waddlin-piss/430157 "2007-12-16T02:24:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2007, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pee-waddlin-piss/430157/1 "2007-12-16T02:24:48Z")
Occasionally I’ve thought about asking this, but [this thread title](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=447710) finally prompted me to do it. My dad had an expression, ‘pee-waddlin’ piss’; as in ‘That motorcycle beat the pee-waddlin’ piss outta me!’ Now I see ‘pee-widdling’. Which is more prevalent? When and where did it originate? ---
**Author:** ![cornflakes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@cornflakes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cornflakes)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2007, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pee-waddlin-piss/430157/2 "2007-12-16T17:33:10Z")
I have never heard “pee-widdling” before, only “pee-waddlin.” I assume that it has something to do with how people might walk funny when they have a full bladder, and there may or may not be something sexist to it. I have no idea why it might be sexist. I just wouldn’t be surprised if it did since I only heard it during football practice. My high school football coaches (1979-1982) used “pee-waddlin” to modify pejoratives. As linemen, we were taught how to “knock the pee-waddlin’ snot out of 'um!” I never figured out how snot could waddle like someone with a full bladder, and I still don’t have a clue about it. We discussed this one during water breaks and never made much sense of it, not that we really tried. So the phrase at least goes back to the 1980s in East Texas, and the coaches probably learned it from their coaches. For all I know, Cotton Hill (Hank’s dad on _King of the Hill_) may have invented it. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2007, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pee-waddlin-piss/430157/3 "2007-12-16T17:47:46Z")
[QUOTE=cornflakes] So the phrase at least goes back to the 1980s in East Texas [/QUOTE] Early-'70s, at least, in California. ---
**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2007, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pee-waddlin-piss/430157/4 "2007-12-16T17:51:12Z")
My great grand mother used “Pee-waddin” when I was a child, in the early 50s. ---
**Author:** ![spinky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/59ef9b/32.png) [@spinky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/spinky)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2007, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pee-waddlin-piss/430157/5 "2007-12-16T22:13:54Z")
One of my college professors used the phrase “scared the pee-waddin out of me” once while telling a story. Never heard it before or since. Always wondered where that came from. ---
**Author:** ![machiavellean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/65b543/32.png) [@machiavellean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/machiavellean)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2011, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pee-waddlin-piss/430157/6 "2011-01-29T01:47:32Z")
“If you don’t stop doing that, I’m going to slap the pee-waddlin’ soup out of you.” “That scared the pee-waddlin’ soup out of me.” Never heard “pee-waddlin’” followed by anything but soup. I know I heard her say it in the mid- to late-1940s. What she said came to mind out-of-the-blue early this morning. Then I was reminded of it again when I saw a three- to five-year-old boy clutching his genital region – quite obviously needing to micturate. ---
**Author:** ![cornflakes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@cornflakes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cornflakes)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2011, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pee-waddlin-piss/430157/7 "2011-01-29T03:43:42Z")
Brrainnnsss!!! Pee-waddlin’ brainnssss!!! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2011, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pee-waddlin-piss/430157/8 "2011-01-29T03:59:36Z")
Brain and brain! What is ‘brain’? ---
**Author:** ![cornflakes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@cornflakes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cornflakes)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2011, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pee-waddlin-piss/430157/9 "2011-01-29T04:10:20Z")
'Pinky’s cellmate? (I’m not sure if I’m followin’ ya, Johnny.) ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2011, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pee-waddlin-piss/430157/10 "2011-01-29T04:15:24Z")
> [@cornflakes](#): > > 'Pinky’s cellmate? > > (I’m not sure if I’m followin’ ya, Johnny.) [This](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zKDQfVbWqc#t=02m09s). ---
**Author:** ![cornflakes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@cornflakes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cornflakes)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2011, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pee-waddlin-piss/430157/11 "2011-01-29T04:23:29Z")
Aha! Though I have to admit, that episode was a little too… (save yourself; move to the next thread!) …brainy for me!