# 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:** 19
**Page:** 2
### Author:  [@MaceMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaceMan)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2003, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/piss-or-pee/182565/21 "2003-06-18T05:20:01Z")
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> \*Originally posted by hajario \*
> \*\*I personally like “piss” because it is an onomonopia. It’s probably one of the first words uttered by humankind.
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> Haj \*\*
I think you meant: onomatopoeia
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### Author:  [@Blalron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blalron)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2003, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/piss-or-pee/182565/22 "2003-06-18T06:23:02Z")
urinate
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### Author:  [@green\_bladder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/green_bladder)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2003, 6:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/piss-or-pee/182565/23 "2003-06-18T06:29:15Z")
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> \*Originally posted by Thudlow Boink \*
> \*\*Does **raisinbread** piss purple?
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> (I’m not even going to ask about **green\_bladder**.) \*\*
😃 Thanks for the thought
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> _percypercy_
> \*\*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 ? \*\*
Well, let’s not rule out the latter, shall we? 😉
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### Author:  [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2003, 6:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/piss-or-pee/182565/24 "2003-06-18T06:32:04Z")
I’m a guy and I pee.
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### Author:  [@Essured](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Essured)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2003, 10:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/piss-or-pee/182565/25 "2003-06-18T10:45:46Z")
I’m a woman, and I usually piss.
Sometimes, I take a leak, have a squat (when in the bush), hang a leak, and I even once did a “gash slash”, but I try to forget that night 🙂
I never pee.
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### Author:  [@dead0man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dead0man)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2003, 11:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/piss-or-pee/182565/26 "2003-06-18T11:11:04Z")
Pee in front of children or my parents, piss for all other occasions. But I usually “take a leak”.
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### Author:  [@auntnut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/auntnut)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2003, 11:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/piss-or-pee/182565/27 "2003-06-18T11:14:43Z")
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> \*Originally posted by X~Slayer(ALE) \*
> \*\*Pee is the “politically correct” version of Piss. Victorian sensibilities disallowed women to utter the word, thus it was called by its initial.
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> in modern context, both are suitable to use depending on upbringing. Its hardly a “bad” word anymore. \*\*
Oh Pissoff !!! 😃
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### Author:  [@NutMagnet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NutMagnet)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2003, 11:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/piss-or-pee/182565/28 "2003-06-18T11:37:33Z")
pee
peepee
piss
void
weewee
wizz
tinkle
drain the dragon
leak the lizard
take your pick
I usually have to “piss like a racehorse” [sub]I have no idea what that means or where I got it from, but I say it anyway[/sub]
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### Author:  [@Wolfian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wolfian)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2003, 11:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/piss-or-pee/182565/29 "2003-06-18T11:51:05Z")
Pee is the act. Piss is the result. YMMV.
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### Author:  [@Mycroft\_Holmes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mycroft_Holmes)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2003, 12:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/piss-or-pee/182565/30 "2003-06-18T12:14:54Z")
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> \*Originally posted by Roadwalker \*
> \*\*shi-shi \*\*
You’re not originally from Brazil are you? This is exactly what my kids use (thanks to their Brazilian mother). Although as an adult I prefer to “migar”.
And in the States I micturate:D
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### Author:  [@big\_alex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/big_alex)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2003, 12:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/piss-or-pee/182565/31 "2003-06-18T12:16:03Z")
waz
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### Author:  [@Mycroft\_Holmes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mycroft_Holmes)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2003, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/piss-or-pee/182565/32 "2003-06-18T12:17:00Z")
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> \*Originally posted by Mycroft Holmes \*
> \*\*And in the States I micturate:D \*\*
And in Germany I go pinkeln, and here I go plassen. Man, I don’t know how my bladder even works anymore with all that confusion.
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### Author:  [@WeRSauron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WeRSauron)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2003, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/piss-or-pee/182565/33 "2003-06-18T12:17:54Z")
I “go to the bathroom.” I don’t think the people around me need or want to know what I’m going to do there. 😉
WRS
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### Author:  [@WeRSauron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WeRSauron)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2003, 12:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/piss-or-pee/182565/34 "2003-06-18T12:20:32Z")
**Roadwalker** reminds me, I was raised with “shoo-shoo”, the verb being “shoo-shoo karna” (in Urdu) or “to go shoo-shoo.” That’s how my mom referred to our urinating even in notes to the babysitter.
WRS
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### Author:  [@Mycroft\_Holmes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mycroft_Holmes)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2003, 12:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/piss-or-pee/182565/35 "2003-06-18T12:25:20Z")
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> \*Originally posted by big alex \*
> \*\*waz \*\*
From [Merriam - Webster Online](http://www.m-w.com/home.htm)
Main Entry: mic·tu·rate
Pronunciation: 'mik-ch&-"rAt, 'mik-t&-
Function: intransitive verb
Inflected Form(s): -rat·ed; -rat·ing
Etymology: Latin micturire to desire to urinate, from meiere to urinate; akin to Old English mIgan to urinate, Greek omeichein
Date: 1842
: URINATE
- mic·tu·ri·tion /"mik-ch&-'ri-sh&n, "mik-t&-/ noun
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### Author:  [@beagledave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beagledave)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2003, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/piss-or-pee/182565/36 "2003-06-18T12:35:55Z")
See a man about a horse.
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### Author:  [@Pixelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pixelle)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2003, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/piss-or-pee/182565/37 "2003-06-18T13:58:08Z")
I say **wee**. I usually only say pee or piss if I’m talking to someone on SDMB because it’s more likely to be the word most Dopers would use.
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### Author:  [@Surreal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Surreal)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2003, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/piss-or-pee/182565/38 "2003-06-18T15:05:00Z")
I almost always say “piss” when I’m talking to someone I know, but on the SDMB I’ll use the word “pee”, as in “I pee in the sink” or “I pee in the pool.”
Using the word “piss” on a public message just seems ill-mannered to me.
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### Author:  [@Ender\_Will](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ender_Will)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2003, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/piss-or-pee/182565/39 "2003-06-18T16:47:50Z")
like **Dead0Man** , I usually take a leak.
Sometimes, I do as **NutMagnet** and piss like a racehorse. Usually “piss like an Iraqi racehorse” One of my friends threw the “Iraqi” bit in in high school, nobody knows where he came from with it, but I like it.
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