Piss.

• Format: Manuscript
• Language: English
• Published: 1968
• Subjects: English language > Dialects > Newfoundland and Labrador; Newfoundland
• Online Access: http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/elrcdne/id/62706

piss It was a Saturday evening, I was in the house listening to the baseball game on the CBC radio network. It was about three o'clock in the evening, it had been foggy and misty all day. My grandmother had finished scrubbing the kitchen floor. She sat down by the window looked out through and said, "I hope this piss will hold up (stop). it has been pissing for a week, I sup- pose it will soon have to stop won't it?" This is the first time that I have actually heard this. It struck me very funny. She did not smile, she was deadly serious, I can assure you. This term is used mostly by older people (40 - oldest) It is rare, if ever, a younger person will speak of rain in this way. Heard from grandmother, Ettie Langdon, domestic, aged 67. She heard it from her mother in Hermitage, around 1920. Not used Not used Withdrawn