A while back I said something along the lines of "Someone seems pissed!" to a person.
After a while I noticed I had left out a pretty important word and I'm wondering if what I actually told them was "Someone seems to have urinated himself!" instead of "Someone seems to be a little angry."
If you say someone 'seems pissed' in British English it means they are drunk, not mad.
If someone 'seems pissed off' then it means angry.
In US English they often leave out the 'off' from this expression, as indicated above.
But do not worry, what you said does not mean that you think that they wet themselves.
if they seem pissed, they seem mad
If someone pissed, they peed. If you say they are pissed or they are pissed off, they are mad.
In American English we use "to be/seem pissed" and "to be/seem pissed off" interchangeably (respectively).
I use them interchangeably in some contexts, but not others.
As far as I use the words,
Pissed means drunk
Pissed off means very angry
