piss off

English

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Verb

piss off (third-person singular simple present pisses off, present participle pissing off, simple past and past participle pissed off)

(idiomatic, intransitive, vulgar, colloquial, UK, US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland) To leave, to go away. [from mid-20th c.]
They've pissed off and left us in the lurch!
Why don't you piss off and leave us alone?
(idiomatic, transitive vulgar, colloquial) To annoy, anger
What really pisses me off about my job is that I have to get up at six o'clock.
- 2022 October 5, Harby, Lauren, “What We Know About Celine Dion's Health Battle”, in The List‎:
  It pisses people off that I am thin and I don't make any effort.

Synonyms

(to leave): bugger off, fuck off, get lost, pee off, rack off, take a hike; see also Thesaurus:go away
(to annoy): cheese off, pee off, tee off, tick off, torque off

Derived terms

POETS day

Translations

to leave, to go away

Chinese:
Mandarin: 滾開／滚开 (zh) (gǔnkāi), 滾球／滚球 (gǔnqiú), 滾／滚 (zh) (gǔn)
Czech: vysmahnout pf, odprejsknout (cs) pf, odpálit (cs) pf
Dutch: flikker op (nl), optiefen, oppleuren (nl), ophoepelen (nl), oprotten (nl), opflikkeren (nl), opdonderen (nl), ophoeren, oplazeren (nl), opsodemieteren (nl), wegwezen (nl), opsodeflikkeren
Esperanto: forpisiĝi
Finnish: (vulgar) painua vittuun, (less vulgar) painua hiiteen, häipyä (fi)
French: se casser (fr), se barrer (fr), se tirer (fr)
German: sich verpissen (de)
Greek: τσακίσου (el) (tsakísou)
Italian: svignarsela
Macedonian: оди мочај (odi močaj, literally “go and piss”)
Norwegian: stikk av
Portuguese: cai fora (pt)
Romanian: dispare (ro)
Russian: убира́ться (ru) impf (ubirátʹsja), кати́ться (ru) impf (katítʹsja), сва́ливать (ru) impf (sválivatʹ), вали́ть (ru) impf (valítʹ), свали́ть (ru) pf (svalítʹ) (colloquial), прова́ливать (ru) impf (proválivatʹ) (colloquial), съёбываться impf (sʺjóbyvatʹsja) (very vulgar), съеба́ться (ru) pf (sʺjebátʹsja) (very vulgar), идти́ на́ хуй impf (idtí ná xuj) (very vulgar), пойти́ на́ хуй pf (pojtí ná xuj) (very vulgar)
Spanish: pirar (es)
Swedish: sticka av, sticka och brinna, dra åt skogen (sv)

to annoy

Arabic: ضَايَقَ‎ (ḍāyaqa), زَعَجَ‎ (zaʿaja)
Catalan: emprenyar (ca), empipar (ca)
Czech: nakrknout pf, dožrat pf
Esperanto: ĝenaĉi, tedaĉi, fotri (literary, neologism)
Finnish: ärsyttää (fi), potuttaa (fi), (vulgar) vituttaa (fi), ottaa päähän (fi), ottaa kupoliin
French: faire chier (fr), casser les couilles (fr), emmerder (fr), péter les couilles (fr)
German: anpissen (de), ankotzen (de)
Italian: fare incazzare, far girare i coglioni, far girare le palle
Japanese: いらいらさせる (ja) (iraira saseru)
Latvian: kaitināt
Portuguese: chatear (pt)
Russian: злить (ru) impf (zlitʹ), разозли́ть (ru) pf (razozlítʹ), выводи́ть из себя́ impf (vyvodítʹ iz sebjá), вы́вести из себя́ pf (vývesti iz sebjá), раздража́ть (ru) impf (razdražátʹ), беси́ть (ru) impf (besítʹ), взбеси́ть (ru) pf (vzbesítʹ), достава́ть (ru) impf (dostavátʹ) (colloquial), доста́ть (ru) pf (dostátʹ) (colloquial), заёбывать impf (zajóbyvatʹ) (very vulgar), заеба́ть (ru) pf (zajebátʹ) (very vulgar)
Spanish: cabrear (es), mosquear (es), asquear (es), repatear (es), tocar los cojones a alguien, tocar los huevos a alguien, joder (es), putear (es)
Tagalog: galitin

Interjection

piss off!

(UK, US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, idiomatic, vulgar, colloquial, dismissal) Go away!