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noun

Pussy n.

A pet name for a cat; also, an endearing name for a girl.

A catkin of the pussy willow.

The game of tipcat; also called pussy cat.

Pussy willow (Bot.), any kind of willow having large cylindrical catkins clothed with long glossy hairs, especially the American Salix discolor; called also glaucous willow, and swamp willow.

adjective

Pussy adj. See Pursy. (Colloq. or Low)

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Etymology of 'Pussy'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Pussy" Quotes from Famous Books

... incipient anarchy in Central America; as an emollient to this, Great Britain is about to present a bust of the late King Edward to the Peace Palace at the Hague! I can imagine myself saying "Pretty pussy, nice pussy," to the wild-cats I have shot in Nebraska and Dakota, but I should not be here if I had; and however small my value to the world I live in, I estimate it as worth at least a ton ...

— Germany and the Germans - From an American Point of View (1913) • Price Collier

... the 'cats' worry you, Pussy. What they think isn't true, and I don't blame you for getting cross! But in one way, dear, aren't they right? Hasn't my little girl been riding and driving and dancing a little too hard? Is it the wisest thing, just now? You have been nervous lately, dear, and excitable. Mightn't ...

— The Sturdy Oak - A Composite Novel of American Politics by Fourteen American Authors • Samuel Merwin, et al.

... respectable now. I've engaged a nice, tame pussy-cat person to take charge of my morals and chaperon me generally. Not—like you, Marraine—an Early Victorian autocrat with ...

— The Lamp of Fate • Margaret Pedler

... of Marches some warm, thawing days are sure to be thrown in between storms, and nothing, not even pussy willows and the skunk cabbage, yield more quickly to the mellowing influence than do the birds—sympathetic brethren of ours that they are. Hardly has the sunniest icicle begun to drop tears, when a song sparrow flits to the top ...

— The Log of the Sun - A Chronicle of Nature's Year • William Beebe

... Pussy-Willows grey Are Angel Kittens who have lost their way, And every Bulrush on the river bank A Cat-Tail from ...

— The Rubaiyat of a Persian Kitten • Oliver Herford

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