pissed off

English

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Adjective

pissed off (comparative more pissed off, superlative most pissed off)

1. (idiomatic, mildly vulgar, colloquial) Very annoyed, upset, angry. [from mid-20th c.]
   • 1951, James Jones, From Here to Eternity, New York: Charles Scribner, page 277:

     You cant disagree with the adopted values of a bunch of people without they get pissed off at you

   • 1984, Dorothy Nelkin and Michael Stuart Brown, Workers at Risk: Voices from the Workplace, page 103,

     They don't like that kind of talk and that made me even more pissed off.

   • 2001, in The Year's Best Science Fiction, page 196,

     When he'd cracked the tank and lifted Jesus the Rhesus out of the waters of rebirth, the monkey had seemed more pissed off at being sopping wet […]

Synonyms

• (annoyed, upset): browned off, cheesed off, (euphemistic, rare) peed off, (mainly US) pissed, (euphemistic) PO'd, p'd off, teed off, ticked off, torqued off
• See also Thesaurus:angry

Translations

annoyed, upset, angry

• Catalan: emprenyat
• Czech: naštvaný (cs) m, nasraný (cs) (vulgar)
• Finnish: vihainen (fi) (standard); vittuuntunut (fi) (vulgar)
• German: sickig (de), angepisst (de)
• Italian: incazzato (it) m

• Polish: (vulgar) wkurwiony (pl) m, wkurzony m
• Russian: злой (ru) (zloj), серди́тый (ru) (serdítyj)
• Spanish: cabreado (es), emputado (es) (some countries), encabronado (es), puteado (es)
• Swedish: förbannad (sv)
• Tagalog: galit

Verb

pissed off

1. simple past tense and past participle of piss off