I grew up on the South Shore and people may have used a couple times - very rarely though - only for once in a lifetime things, or really awesome things like the BoSox winning the World Series. It's usually posers who use it in my area, or outta staters who don't even know how to use it.
In portuguese,"pissa" is a non-dictionarized slangy word that translates to the english slangy Dick Tracy - without last name and capitalizing. The pronounciation is almost like the one described above: the "i" sounds ea, as in sea.
I grew up on the Noath Shoah (1958-1976) and I don't ever recall saying "wickid pissa". I'm not even sure I ever said "wickid". Either I'm a "Brahmin" or it came along after my time ;)
I grew up in Br'ricka in the 60s-70s and heard "wicked," "pissa," and the occasional "wicked pissa"... i think overuse by Charles Laquedera on WBCN in the 70s-80s made it kind of a stoopid cliche thing.
In my mind's ear I hear "Whoa . . . pissah!" much more easily than "wickid pissah" - which sounds extravagant.And it's "wickit", not "wickid" - at least in western Mass.
I grew in dotty - cousins in southie and JP - we all say wicked pissa - so suck it! Also, everyone on north and south shore says the same. Don't hate on our vernacular poser
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re: Wicked pissa
By Koby
Mon, 06/21/2004 - 3:40am
how do you pronounce that? pie sa? piss a?
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By Jen
Wed, 06/30/2004 - 11:01pm
Pi - sa (short i like in IT) accent on the Pi
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By Rick
Sat, 07/10/2004 - 3:13pm
The REAL term is: "wikkid f*ckin pissa" or "wikkid frickin' pissa" if you don't wanna sound too gross.
re: Wicked pissa
By Antti
Fri, 09/10/2004 - 6:09am
Pissa means piss in the finnish language.
re: Wicked pissa
By rachel
Fri, 12/17/2004 - 7:36pm
pissa means wiked cool in italian
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By Mike
Sun, 01/02/2005 - 5:31pm
Wicked pissa is the epitamy of the Boston Red Sox
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By Brian from Boston
Fri, 04/08/2005 - 10:37am
Only people that aren't from Boston would say Wicked Pissa. No one on the Northshore or Southshore combine the two.
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By susanna
Tue, 08/30/2005 - 10:53pm
Oh No Brian!!!! I was raised in the Back Bay area and I always said "wicked pissa lol.
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By James
Wed, 11/23/2005 - 8:55pm
Either way... THATS WICKED PISSA!
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By Kermit
Mon, 11/28/2005 - 3:16pm
Brian Moore is from Boston and always says "Wicked Pissa". He also likes clam chowda.
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By Les Haskell
Sun, 12/03/2006 - 2:26am
Grew up in Bedfid and went ta Shawsheen Tech then moved ta Buhricka. It was always "wicked pissa".
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By alan
Fri, 12/22/2006 - 10:36pm
In Winthrop it's "wicked pissa" or just "wicked."
re: Wicked pissa
By Chris
Wed, 12/27/2006 - 2:47am
I grew up on the South Shore and people may have used a couple times - very rarely though - only for once in a lifetime things, or really awesome things like the BoSox winning the World Series. It's usually posers who use it in my area, or outta staters who don't even know how to use it.
re: Wicked pissa
By Lusitano
Thu, 04/05/2007 - 12:43pm
In portuguese,"pissa" is a non-dictionarized slangy word that translates to the english slangy Dick Tracy - without last name and capitalizing. The pronounciation is almost like the one described above: the "i" sounds ea, as in sea.
re: Wicked pissa
By Pottsie
Tue, 10/09/2007 - 1:06pm
Apparently Wicked Pissa Cool means Pottsie in Radio Land...just ask them over at Radio Daddy!
re: Wicked pissa
By Greg E.
Wed, 12/05/2007 - 8:30am
I grew up on the Noath Shoah (1958-1976) and I don't ever recall saying "wickid pissa". I'm not even sure I ever said "wickid". Either I'm a "Brahmin" or it came along after my time ;)
re: Wicked pissa
By Marinda
Tue, 03/04/2008 - 12:17am
I grew up in Br'ricka in the 60s-70s and heard "wicked," "pissa," and the occasional "wicked pissa"... i think overuse by Charles Laquedera on WBCN in the 70s-80s made it kind of a stoopid cliche thing.
re: Wicked pissa
By Brad
Mon, 09/15/2008 - 3:56pm
In my mind's ear I hear "Whoa . . . pissah!" much more easily than "wickid pissah" - which sounds extravagant.And it's "wickit", not "wickid" - at least in western Mass.
re: Wicked pissa
By Paula
Fri, 08/27/2010 - 11:47am
No.....I'm from the South Shore and grew up saying wicked pissa!!
North and South Shore are not
By anon
Wed, 12/29/2010 - 9:19pm
North and South Shore are not Boston, Einstein
People from Boston do not say
By Ryan
Fri, 10/14/2011 - 12:18am
People from Boston do not say "wicked pissa". That sounds retarded and sounds like a wannabe phrase.
you ah wrong kid
By Dotty
Tue, 10/01/2013 - 6:48pm
I grew in dotty - cousins in southie and JP - we all say wicked pissa - so suck it! Also, everyone on north and south shore says the same. Don't hate on our vernacular poser
yeah
By trebor
Thu, 05/12/2016 - 11:21am
Agreed. Saying wicked and pissa were things that I said in high school a while ago on the South Shore. I don't know anyone who still says it though.
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