Piss proud
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Piss-proud (as well as Morning Glory) is a British idiom, which means having a false erection or more generally falsely proud. It refers to the common phenomenon of men waking up in the morning with an erect penis (see nocturnal penile tumescence), often attributed to be the result of a full bladder.[1] (In the US such an erection is colloquially referred to as morning wood.)
The idiom also refers to the kind of empty pride a person (or a person's personified penis) might have in considering such erections, falsely, to be an indication of virility, instead of the simple need to urinate ("piss").
The term is mentioned in Francis Grose’s A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, (1785):
- “Piss-proud, having a false erection. That old fellow thought he had an erection, but his — was only piss-proud; said of any old fellow who marries a young wife”.
[edit] Notes
- ^ See for example The Oxford English Dictionary.
[edit] References
- Grose, Francis, "Piss Proud" in A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, 1978.
