pusil
English
Etymology
(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin pusillus (“very little”).
Adjective
pusil (comparative more pusil, superlative most pusil)
- (obsolete) Very small; little; petty.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Francis Bacon to this entry?)
Related terms
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “pusil”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Anagrams
Cebuano
Etymology
From Spanish fusil (“rifle”), from French fusil (“rifle, gun”), from Old French fuisil, foisil, from Vulgar Latin *focīlis (petra), from Latin focus.
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: pu‧sil
Noun
pusil
- a gun; a device for projecting a hard object very forcefully; a firearm
Quotations
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