# piss proud

> English word · Adjective

## Definitions
1. Having an erection when waking from sleep or, more generally or metaphorically, a false or "empty" erection.
2. Falsely proud, implying an outward display of success or virility belies a dubious reality.
3. Denoting an old man who marries a young woman, implying the only erection he could muster would be prompted by the bladder.
4. Paruretic.

## Etymology
From piss (“urine”) + proud. Appears in Francis Grose’s A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue (1796):
: “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”.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
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