pussy

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Anything soft and furry; a bloom form, or catkin, as on the pussy willow.

(vulgar, slang, uncountable, often in the phrase "to get some pussy") Sexual intercourse with a woman.

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.

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, 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.

• 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?

(vulgar, gay slang) The anus of a man, usually the passive participant in gay sex.

(vulgar, humorous, Internet slang) Used in blends to form deliberately grotesque and unwieldy words referring to cavities. See -ussy on Wikipedia.Wikipedia .

thrussy; clussy

(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. Also used in blends to form deliberately grotesque and unwieldy words referring to this. See -ussy on Wikipedia.Wikipedia .

(dated) A game of tipcat.

Synonyms

• (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

• (female genitalia): genitals

Derived terms

Descendants

• Maori: poti, puihi

Translations

Etymology 2

From pus +‎ -y.

Pronunciation

• enPR: pŭs'i, IPA^(key): /ˈpʌsi/

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Adjective

pussy (comparative pussier, superlative pussiest)

1. (medicine) Containing pus.

   Synonym: purulent

Alternative forms

• pusy

Translations

Etymology 3

Adjective

pussy (comparative more pussy, superlative most pussy)

1. (slang, dated) Alternative form of pursy

Further reading

• “pussy”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

References

• “pussy”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.