pussy
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See also: Pussy
English
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From puss + -y (diminutive suffix).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation, General American) enPR: po͝osʹi, IPA(key): /ˈpʊsi/
Audio (Northern California): (file) - Rhymes: -ʊsi
- Hyphenation: pus‧sy
Noun
[edit]pussy (countable and uncountable, plural pussies)
- (informal, endearing) A cat. [from 17th c.]
- 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.
- (vulgar, colloquial) The female genitalia; the vulva or vagina. [from 17th c.]
- 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?
- Anything soft and furry; a bloom form, or catkin, as on the pussy willow. [from 19th c.]
- (vulgar, slang, uncountable, often 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 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!
- (derogatory, vulgar, slang) 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?
- 1983, Oliver Stone, directed by Brian de Palma, Scarface, spoken by Tony Montana (Al Pacino):
- This town is like a great big pussy just waiting to get fucked!
- 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."
- 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.
- (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?
- (LGBTQ, vulgar) The anus of a man, usually the passive participant in gay sex.
- (LGBTQ, vulgar) The anus of a trans woman.
- (vulgar, humorous, Internet slang) Used in blends to form deliberately grotesque and unwieldy words referring to cavities. See -ussy.
- (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.
- (dated) A game of tipcat.
Synonyms
[edit]- (cat): kitty, kitty-cat, puss, pussy-cat; see also Thesaurus:cat
- (affectionate term): darling, honey, pussums; see also Thesaurus:sweetheart
- (female genitalia): poontang, coochie, punani, quim; see Thesaurus:vulva or Thesaurus:vagina
- (uncountable: intercourse with woman): poontang, poon, tang, punani; see also Thesaurus:copulation
- (cowardly man): scaredy-cat, wimp, wuss; see also Thesaurus:coward
- (ineffectual, timid, or pathetic person): pansy, sissy, weenie, weakling; see also Thesaurus:milksop
- (tip-cat): cat, cat and dog, one-a-cat, piggy
Hypernyms
[edit]- (female genitalia): genitals
Derived terms
[edit]- a pussy and a pulse
- boy pussy
- bussy
- clussy
- eat pussy
- Europussy
- high as giraffe pussy
- pussification
- pussify
- pussyarse
- pussyass
- pussy bandit
- pussy bow
- pussy-boy
- pussy boy
- pussybreath
- pussycat
- pussy control
- pussydom
- pussy eating
- pussy fart
- pussyfication
- pussy finger
- pussyfoot
- pussyfuck
- pussyfucker
- Pussygate
- pussygirl
- pussy hat
- pussyhole
- pussy juice
- pussyless
- pussylicker
- pussylike
- pussy lips
- pussy magnet
- pussyman
- pussy money
- pussymonger
- pussyologist
- pussyology
- pussy out
- pussy pad
- pussy pass
- pussy posse
- pussy pounding
- pussy power
- pussy print
- pussy repellent
- pussy tickler
- pussytoe
- pussytoes
- pussy torture
- pussy wants a corner
- pussy whip
- pussywhipped
- pussy willow
- thussy
- -ussy
Descendants
[edit]Translations
[edit]affectionate term for a girl or woman
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informal: affectionate term for a cat
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slang: female genitalia
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anything soft and furry
vulgar: sexual intercourse with a woman
informal: coward
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Etymology 2
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- enPR: pŭs'i, IPA(key): /ˈpʌsi/
Audio (Northern California): (file)
Adjective
[edit]pussy (comparative pussier, superlative pussiest)
Alternative forms
[edit]Translations
[edit]containing pus
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Etymology 3
[edit]Adjective
[edit]pussy (comparative more pussy, superlative most pussy)
Further reading
[edit]- “pussy”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
References
[edit]- “pussy”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- Fielding, Lucie (2021) Trans Sex: Clinical Approaches to Trans Sexualities and Erotic Embodiments, New York: Routledge, →ISBN, page 96
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