• piss-the-bed,pissy-bed,pissy bed

Frompiss +‎bed orpiss +‎abed, so called after thedandelion's supposeddiuretic effect. CompareFrenchpissenlit.

pissabed (pluralpissabeds)

1. Thedandelion, formerly much used for itsdiuretic properties.[from 16th c.]
   • 1953,Samuel Beckett,Watt,[Paris]:Olympia Press,→OCLC:

     Of flowers there was no trace, save of the flowers that plant themselves, or never die […] The chief of these was thepissabed.

   • 2016,Alan Moore,Jerusalem, Liveright, published2016, page139:

     The tufted hillock […] had no buildings on and only golden clumps ofpiss-the-bed that were not yet gone into misty balls of seed.

2. (dialect) Any of various other wild plants with diuretic properties;bluet,oxeye daisy, etc.

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