# Piss or Pee?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/piss-or-pee/182565
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [June 17, 2003, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/piss-or-pee/182565 "2003-06-17T22:42:09Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@raisinbread](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raisinbread)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2003, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/piss-or-pee/182565/1 "2003-06-17T22:42:09Z")
While reading a [recent thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=191296) I noted how people referred to that particular activity, on the whole, as pissing or peeing.
When I was a young lad my father took me upon his knee and told me “Son, men piss. Women pee.” What struck me as odd were the number of (perceived) gentlemen who were referring to the act of lizard draining as peeing.
So gents is it pissing or peeing?
WBS K TNX LOL
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### Author:  [@Roadwalker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roadwalker)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2003, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/piss-or-pee/182565/2 "2003-06-17T23:01:31Z")
shi-shi
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### Author:  [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2003, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/piss-or-pee/182565/3 "2003-06-17T23:03:37Z")
It’s both, though peeing is more common with me.
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### Author:  [@raisinbread](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raisinbread)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2003, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/piss-or-pee/182565/4 "2003-06-17T23:07:36Z")
When I mean “(perceived) gentlemen” I do not mean to diminish a gentleman’s honor but some of the handles could either be male or female.
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### Author:  [@Celyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Celyn)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2003, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/piss-or-pee/182565/5 "2003-06-17T23:12:11Z")
I had vaguley thought the “pee” was jsut a sort of Bowdlerised version of "piss.
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### Author:  [@X\_Slayer\_ALE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/X_Slayer_ALE)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2003, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/piss-or-pee/182565/6 "2003-06-17T23:15:32Z")
Pee is the “politically correct” version of Piss. Victorian sensibilities disallowed women to utter the word, thus it was called by its initial.
in modern context, both are suitable to use depending on upbringing. Its hardly a “bad” word anymore.
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### Author:  [@LolaCocaCola](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LolaCocaCola)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2003, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/piss-or-pee/182565/7 "2003-06-17T23:40:57Z")
> [@](#):
>
> \*Originally posted by raisinbread \*
> \*\*WBS K TNX LOL[/color] \*\*
😕
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### Author:  [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2003, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/piss-or-pee/182565/8 "2003-06-18T00:49:02Z")
I personally like “piss” because it is an onomonopia. It’s probably one of the first words uttered by humankind.
Haj
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### Author:  [@j\_kat\_251](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/j_kat_251)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2003, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/piss-or-pee/182565/9 "2003-06-18T01:05:37Z")
Piss is somewhat vulgar, I only use it in the company of male friends. If in a mixed group and it becomes necessary to announce a need to visit the restroom, the common expression is “take a slash”. Slash having nothing to do with “fagfic”. Pee just sounds so cutesy.
By the way, women tinkle goddamn you.
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### Author:  [@Michael\_Ellis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Michael_Ellis)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2003, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/piss-or-pee/182565/10 "2003-06-18T01:29:46Z")
So, I guess we’ve finished raising the tone of the board. :dubious:
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### Author:  [@donkeyoatey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/donkeyoatey)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2003, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/piss-or-pee/182565/11 "2003-06-18T01:45:09Z")
All I can think of, after reading the OP, was an expression we used when I was wee, (said to someone who was whining) :
My heart pumps purple piss for you.
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### Author:  [@green\_bladder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/green_bladder)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2003, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/piss-or-pee/182565/12 "2003-06-18T02:00:04Z")
I’m a pisser
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### Author:  [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2003, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/piss-or-pee/182565/13 "2003-06-18T02:03:56Z")
Does **raisinbread** piss purple?
(I’m not even going to ask about **green\_bladder**.)
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### Author:  [@Rysdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysdad)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2003, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/piss-or-pee/182565/14 "2003-06-18T02:12:12Z")
Gall bladders are green.
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### Author:  [@raisinbread](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raisinbread)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2003, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/piss-or-pee/182565/15 "2003-06-18T02:33:38Z")
I pissed the color blue once.
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### Author:  [@rexnervous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rexnervous)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2003, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/piss-or-pee/182565/16 "2003-06-18T02:37:38Z")
I used to never say ‘pee’ until I got into a long-term relationship with a woman some many years ago. Now, it’s all pee, all the time.
And, no golden shower jokes, please 🙂
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### Author:  [@percypercy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/percypercy)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2003, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/piss-or-pee/182565/17 "2003-06-18T03:35:02Z")
> [@](#):
>
> \*Originally posted by green\_bladder \*
> \*\*I’m a pisser \*\*
So it’s just a coincidence that **She’s a Mover** just came onto my stereo or do you have control of my computer, **green\_bladder**? And am I the only one that find these things funny?
-Lil
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### Author:  [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2003, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/piss-or-pee/182565/18 "2003-06-18T05:04:14Z")
Actually, I don’t have squat to say on the matter.
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### Author:  [@Orange\_Skinner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Orange_Skinner)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2003, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/piss-or-pee/182565/19 "2003-06-18T05:08:51Z")
Female, here. I say “piss” almost exclusively, unless I’m in the company of those who might object: Adults I either don’t know well enough to be up on their stance on swearing, (not that “piss” is to be considered a _real_ swear word or anything), or if there are young children around.
The word “pee” just strikes me as childish. Probably because childhood was the time in my life when talking about pee was most frequent and colorful–and in the conversation, that was what it was always called–pee.
I have graduated to “piss.”
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### Author:  [@j.c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/j.c)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2003, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/piss-or-pee/182565/20 "2003-06-18T05:12:53Z")
Somehow, it’s rarely a topic of conversation in my life.
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