pussivant
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English
Alternative forms
Etymology
An alteration of pursuivant.[1]
Verb
pussivant (third-person singular simple present pussivants, present participle pussivanting, simple past and past participle pussivanted)
- (dialectal, archaic) To engage in pointless, annoying or meddlesome activity; to fuss around.
- 1923, John Galsworthy, Captures, London: William Heinemann Ltd., page 4:
- The weather was fine, and the hay was in. It was one of those intervals between harvests which he was wont to take easy, and it would amuse him to think of his neighbour always ‘puzzivantin’’ over some ‘improvement’ or other.
References
- ^ “pussivant, v.”, in OED Online
, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
