puss
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English[edit]
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Etymology 1[edit]
From a Common Germanic word for cat. Akin to Dutch poes "puss, cat", Low German puus-katte, dialectal Swedish kattepus, Norwegian pus.
Found also in several other European and Western Asian languages. Compare Romanian pisica.
Noun[edit]
puss (plural pusses)
- (informal) A cat.
- Our local theatre is showing Puss in Boots.
- A girl or young woman.
- (dated, hunting) A hare.
- (slang) pussy; vagina
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Etymology 2[edit]
Of Celtic origin, from or akin to Irish pus (“mouth, lip”), from Middle Irish bus.
Noun[edit]
puss (plural pusses)
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Norwegian[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
From pusse (“to clean, polish, plaster, render”).
Noun[edit]
puss m
Etymology 2[edit]
Noun[edit]
puss m, n
Etymology 3[edit]
Apparently from Dutch Low Saxon or German Low German.[1]
New High German Possen (“coarse prank”), although superficially similar, derives via Middle High German from Old French, and is therefore probably unrelated.
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puss n
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Swedish[edit]
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puss c
- peck; a light or dispassionate kiss performed with closed lips, used for example as a greeting or in non-sensual/non-sexual contexts
- a puddle, a plash
Declension[edit]
Declension of puss
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Categories:
- English terms derived from Germanic languages
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- English informal terms
- English dated terms
- en:Hunting
- English slang
- English terms derived from Celtic languages
- English terms derived from Irish
- English terms derived from Middle Irish
- Norwegian nouns
- Norwegian terms derived from Latin
- Norwegian terms derived from Dutch Low Saxon
- Norwegian terms derived from German Low German
- Swedish nouns
