English

Alternative forms

• piss-proud

Adjective

piss proud ‎(not comparable)

1. (Britain, vulgar) Having an erection when waking from sleep or, more generally or metaphorically, a false or "empty" erection.
   • 1988, George O'Brien, Dancehall Days, p150

     I fucked culture for being unnatural (it was nothing but the city's piss-proud erection).

2. (Britain, vulgar) (by extension) Falsely proud, implying an outward display of success or virility belies a dubious reality.
   • 2000, Sandra Gulland, The Many Lives and Secret Sorrows of Josephine B, p30

     And my guess is that his piss-proud father told him...

   • 2003, Maureen Jennings, Let Loose the Dogs, p 291

     Full of the strong beer brewed at the camp, the men boasted, piss proud of their sexual exploits.

3. (Britain, pejorative, dated) Denoting an old man who marries a young woman, implying the only erection he could muster would be prompted by the bladder.^[1][2]
4. (rare) Paruretic.
   • 1998, Richard H. Stratton & Kim Wozencraft, Slam: The Book, p106

     I really have to go, but nothing comes out. Not used to pissing next to twenty strangers. Piss proud?

See also

• morning glory
• morning wood

References

1. 1 2 “piss-proud” in A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, Francis Grose, 1796, Google Books Gutenberg Archive
2. ↑ 2003, Mark Steven Morton, The Lover's Tongue: A Merry Romp Through the Language of Love and Sex, p113