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English

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A stray kitten is standing in a park next to a small branch.
A pussy (etymology 1 sense 1)

Etymology 1

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From puss (“cat”) +‎ -y (diminutive suffix).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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pussy (countable and uncountable, plural pussies)

  2. (informal, endearing) A cat. [from 17th c.]
    Synonyms: kitty, puss, pussy-cat; see also Thesaurus:cat
    • 2007 November 17, Liz Jones, “Are cats the new dogs?”, in The Independent:
      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.
  4. (vulgar, colloquial) The female genitalia; the vulva or vagina. [from 17th c.]
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:vagina, Thesaurus:vulva
    Hypernyms: see Thesaurus:genitalia
    • 2018, “Super Saiyan Superman”, in Ta13oo, performed by Denzel Curry, United States:
      I'ma get up in that body like a surgeon / Pussy wetter than a damn sea urchin
  5. (dated) Anything soft and furry; a bloom form, or catkin, as on the pussy willow. [from 19th c.]
    • before 1895, “Pussy Willow”‎[1]:
      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.
  6. (vulgar, slang, uncountable) Sexual intercourse with a woman; usually in the phrase get some pussy. [from 20th c.]
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:copulation
    I’m gonna get me some pussy tonight.
    • 1991, Daniel Clowes, Art School Confidential:
      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!
  7. (derogatory, vulgar, slang) A coward; a weakling; an ineffectual, timid, or pathetic person. [from 20th c.]
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:coward, Thesaurus:milksop
    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[2], 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."
    • 2010, BioWare, Mass Effect 2, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Prison Ship Purgatory:
      [Shepard:] You're in a bad situation, and I'm going to get you out of here.
      [Jack:] Shit, you sound like a pussy.
  8. (colloquial, endearing, now rare) A woman or girl, seen as having characteristics associated with cats such as sweetness. [from 16th c.]
    • 1897, Richard Marsh, The Beetle:
      ‘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.’
    • 2010 June 3, Jojo Moyes, “Why love letters are better left unread”, in The Telegraph:
      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?
  9. (vulgar) The anus of a man, usually the passive participant in gay sex.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:anus
  10. (vulgar, humorous, Internet slang) Used in blends to form deliberately grotesque and unwieldy words referring to cavities. See -ussy.
    thrussy; clussy
  11. (vulgar, humorous, Internet slang) A notional part of the body used during exertion of effort; usually in the form put one's whole pussy into.
  12. (dated) A game of tipcat.
    Synonyms: cat, cat and dog, one-a-cat, piggy
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Derived terms
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Descendants
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  • → Māori: poti, puihi
Translations
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Verb

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pussy (third-person singular simple present pussies, present participle pussying, simple past and past participle pussied)

  1. (intransitive) Used in a phrasal verb: pussy out.

Etymology 2

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From pus +‎ -y.

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Adjective

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pussy (comparative pussier, superlative pussiest)

  1. (medicine) Containing or exuding pus.
    Alternative form: pusy
    Synonyms: purulent, suppurant
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Etymology 3

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A variant of pursy with dialectal assimilation of /ɹ/ before a coronal consonant.

Adjective

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pussy (comparative more pussy, superlative most pussy)

  1. (slang, dated) Alternative form of pursy.

Further reading

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  • “pussy”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

References

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French

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Etymology

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Borrowed from English pussy.

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Noun

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pussy m (plural pussys)

  1. (slang) pussy (vagina)
  2. (slang) pussy (effeminate man)
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