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→‎English: And this is not slang because it is not “unique to a particular profession or subject,” but a staple of general vulgar vocabulary, it’s almost that the cat meaning is now more peculiar, plus the labels are noisy.
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#* '''2010''', Jojo Moyes, "Why love letters are better left unread", ''The Telegraph'', 3 Jun 2010:
#* '''2010''', Jojo Moyes, "Why love letters are better left unread", ''The Telegraph'', 3 Jun 2010:
#*: 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?
#*: 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?
# {{lb|en|vulgar}} The female [[genitalia]]; the [[vulva]] and/or [[vagina]]. {{defdate|from 17th c.}}
# {{lb|en|vulgar|slang}} The female [[genitalia]]; the [[vulva]] and/or [[vagina]]. {{defdate|from 17th c.}}
#: {{ux|en|You have a lovely '''pussy'''!|inline=y}}
#: {{ux|en|You have a lovely '''pussy'''!|inline=y}}
#* {{quote-book|en|author=Alexandra Sirowy|title=The Telling|genre=young adult fiction|publisher={{w|Simon & Schuster}}|year=2016|page=6|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=pka9DAAAQBAJ&pg=PA6|passage=There's a lot of disagreement about where that word came from. '''Pussy''' is actually a diminutive of ''pusillanimous'', meaning cowardly. Although maybe the origin doesn't matter, since everyone equates it with the female anatomy anyway?|brackets=on}}
#* {{quote-book|en|author=Alexandra Sirowy|title=The Telling|genre=young adult fiction|publisher={{w|Simon & Schuster}}|year=2016|page=6|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=pka9DAAAQBAJ&pg=PA6|passage=There's a lot of disagreement about where that word came from. '''Pussy''' is actually a diminutive of ''pusillanimous'', meaning cowardly. Although maybe the origin doesn't matter, since everyone equates it with the female anatomy anyway?|brackets=on}}
# Anything soft and [[furry]]; a [[bloom]] form, or [[catkin]], as on the [[w:Pussy_Willow|pussy willow]]. {{defdate|from 19th c.}}
# Anything soft and [[furry]]; a [[bloom]] form, or [[catkin]], as on the [[w:Pussy_Willow|pussy willow]]. {{defdate|from 19th c.}}
# {{lb|en|vulgar|uncountable|normally in the phrase "to get some pussy"}} [[sexual intercourse|Sexual intercourse]] with a woman. {{defdate|from 20th c.}}
# {{lb|en|vulgar|slang|uncountable|normally in the phrase "to get some pussy"}} [[sexual intercourse|Sexual intercourse]] with a woman. {{defdate|from 20th c.}}
#: {{ux|en|I’m gonna get me some '''pussy''' tonight.|inline=y}}
#: {{ux|en|I’m gonna get me some '''pussy''' tonight.|inline=y}}
#* {{quote-book|en|year=1991|author=Daniel Clowes|authorlink=Daniel Clowes|title={{w|Art School Confidential (comics)|Art School Confidential}}|passage=The teachers are not there to help you. Most oft 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'''!}}
#* {{quote-book|en|year=1991|author=Daniel Clowes|authorlink=Daniel Clowes|title={{w|Art School Confidential (comics)|Art School Confidential}}|passage=The teachers are not there to help you. Most oft 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'''!}}
# {{lb|en|pejorative|vulgar|chiefly|_|North America}} A [[coward]]; a [[weakling]]; an [[ineffectual]], [[timid]], or [[pathetic]] person. {{defdate|from 20th c.}}
# {{lb|en|pejorative|vulgar|slang|chiefly|_|North America}} A [[coward]]; a [[weakling]]; an [[ineffectual]], [[timid]], or [[pathetic]] person. {{defdate|from 20th c.}}
#: {{ux|en|You're such a '''pussy'''!|inline=y}}
#: {{ux|en|You're such a '''pussy'''!|inline=y}}
#* {{quote-book|en|author=Sinclair Lewis|authorlink=Sinclair Lewis|title={{w|Arrowsmith (novel)|Martin Arrowsmith}}|genre=fiction|publisher={{w|Harcourt (publisher)|Harcourt Brace & Company}}|year=1925|passage=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?}}
#* {{quote-book|en|author=Sinclair Lewis|authorlink=Sinclair Lewis|title={{w|Arrowsmith (novel)|Martin Arrowsmith}}|genre=fiction|publisher={{w|Harcourt (publisher)|Harcourt Brace & Company}}|year=1925|passage=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?}}
#* {{quote-journal|en|author=Matt Keating|title=Do everyone a favour and don't bring your cold to work|journal={{w|The Guardian}}|url=https://www.theguardian.com/money/2007/nov/26/officehours7|archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20141006022359/http://www.theguardian.com/money/2007/nov/26/officehours7|archivedate=6 Oct 2014|date=26 Nov 2007|passage=I couldn't carry the burden of shame engendered by the bully-boy advertising of "max-strength" cold and flu remedies, the obvious subtext of which is "Get to work, you '''pussy'''."}}
#* {{quote-journal|en|author=Matt Keating|title=Do everyone a favour and don't bring your cold to work|journal={{w|The Guardian}}|url=https://www.theguardian.com/money/2007/nov/26/officehours7|archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20141006022359/http://www.theguardian.com/money/2007/nov/26/officehours7|archivedate=6 Oct 2014|date=26 Nov 2007|passage=I couldn't carry the burden of shame engendered by the bully-boy advertising of "max-strength" cold and flu remedies, the obvious subtext of which is "Get to work, you '''pussy'''."}}
# {{lb|en|vulgar|gay|_|slang}} the [[anus]] of a [[man]], usually the [[passive]] participant in [[gay]] [[sex]].
# {{lb|en|vulgar|gay|_|slang}} the [[anus]] of a [[man]], usually the [[passive]] participant in [[gay]] [[sex]].
# {{lb|en|dated}} A game of [[tipcat|tip-cat]].
# {{lb|en|dated}} A game of [[Wikipedia:Tip-cat|tip-cat]].


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Revision as of 16:49, 14 October 2021

English

Etymology 1

From puss +‎ -y (diminutive suffix).

Pronunciation

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  • Audio (US, Northern California):(file)
  • Rhymes: -ʊsi
  • Hyphenation: pus‧sy

Noun

pussy (plural pussies)

A pussy (1)
  1. (informal, endearing) A cat. [from 17th c.]
    • 2007, Liz Jones, "Are cats the new dogs?", The Independent, 17 Nov 07:
      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.
  2. (colloquial, now rare) An affectionate term for a woman or girl, seen as having characteristics associated with cats such as sweetness. [from 16th c.]
    • 2010, Jojo Moyes, "Why love letters are better left unread", The Telegraph, 3 Jun 2010:
      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?
  3. (vulgar, slang) The female genitalia; the vulva and/or vagina. [from 17th c.]
    You have a lovely pussy!
    • [2016, Alexandra Sirowy, The Telling (young adult fiction), Simon & Schuster, page 6:
      There's a lot of disagreement about where that word came from. Pussy is actually a diminutive of pusillanimous, meaning cowardly. Although maybe the origin doesn't matter, since everyone equates it with the female anatomy anyway?]
  4. Anything soft and furry; a bloom form, or catkin, as on the pussy willow. [from 19th c.]
  5. (vulgar, slang, uncountable, normally in the phrase "to get some pussy") Sexual intercourse with a woman. [from 20th c.]
    I’m gonna get me some pussy tonight.
    • 1991, Daniel Clowes, Art School Confidential:
      The teachers are not there to help you. Most oft 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!
  6. (derogatory, vulgar, slang, chiefly Canada, US) A coward; a weakling; an ineffectual, timid, or pathetic person. [from 20th c.]
    You're such a pussy!
    • 1925, Sinclair Lewis, Martin Arrowsmith (fiction), Harcourt Brace & Company:
      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?
    • 2007 November 26, Matt Keating, “Do everyone a favour and don't bring your cold to work”, in The Guardian‎[1], archived from the original on 6 October 2014:
      I couldn't carry the burden of shame engendered by the bully-boy advertising of "max-strength" cold and flu remedies, the obvious subtext of which is "Get to work, you pussy."
  7. (vulgar, gay slang) the anus of a man, usually the passive participant in gay sex.
  8. (dated) A game of tip-cat.
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Etymology 2

From pus +‎ -y.

Pronunciation

  • enPR: pŭs'i, IPA(key): /ˈpʌsi/
  • Audio (US, Northern California):(file)

Adjective

pussy (comparative pussier, superlative pussiest)

  1. (medicine) Containing pus.
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Etymology 3

Adjective

pussy (comparative more pussy, superlative most pussy)

  1. (slang, dated) Alternative form of pursy

Further reading

  • “pussy”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

References

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