pussy
noun
- house cat
noun
- coward
noun
- vulgarism
- vagina
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /ˈpʊsi/ / /ˈpɵsɪj/ / /ˈpʉse/
adj
Etymology: A variant of pursy with dialectal assimilation of /ɹ/ before a coronal consonant.
- Alternative form of pursy.
name
Etymology: From French Pussy, claimed to be from an inherited Roman personal name Pussius.
- A village in La Léchère, Savoie department, France.
noun
Etymology: Etymology tree English puss Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English pussy From puss (“cat”) + -y (diminutive suffix). Usage of the word to refer to a coward may be influenced by pusillanimous.
- A cat.
“And although, as someone recently said to me, they are not "designer" (she had expected my pussies to be expensive, with a pedigree), to me my cats are the most beautiful in the world.”
- The female genitalia; the vulva or vagina.
“I'ma get up in that body like a surgeon / Pussy wetter than a damn sea urchin”
- Anything soft and furry; a bloom form, or catkin, as on the pussy willow.
“When the pussies on the willow Open in the spring, If you listen very closely You will hear them sing:— We are pussies, we are pussies, though we never purr; We are gaily swinging, swinging, in our coats of fur.”
- Sexual intercourse with a female; usually in the phrase get some pussy.
“I’m gonna get me some pussy tonight.”
“The teachers are not there to help you. Most of them are still freelancers and the last thing they want is more competition. They are there because they need a steady paycheck and they hope to score some pussy!”
- A coward; a weakling; an ineffectual, timid, weak-spirited, or pathetic person.
“You're such a pussy!”
“You ought to hear some of the docs that are the sweetest old pussies with their patients—the way they bawl out the nurses. But labs—they seem sort of real. I don't suppose you can bluff a bacteria—what is it?—bacterium?”
- A woman or girl, seen as having characteristics associated with cats such as sweetness.
“‘I hope you two have been mewed in with that old pussy long enough. While you’ve been tittle-tattling I’ve been doing, — listen to what this bobby’s got to say.’”
“If Lloyd George’s endearments to mistress Frances Stevenson – “My darling Pussy. You might phone… on Friday if you can come. Don’t let Hankey see you” – had been made similarly public, would he have maintained his own reputation as a towering statesman?”
- The anus of a man, usually the passive participant in gay sex.
- Used in blends to form deliberately grotesque and unwieldy words referring to cavities. See -ussy.
“thrussy; clussy”
- A notional part of the body used during exertion of effort; usually in the form put one's whole pussy into.
- A game of tipcat.
verb
Etymology: Etymology tree English puss Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English pussy From puss (“cat”) + -y (diminutive suffix). Usage of the word to refer to a coward may be influenced by pusillanimous.
- Used in a phrasal verb: pussy out.