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Pussycat   /pˈʊsikˌæt/   Listen
Pussycat

noun
1.
A person who is regarded as easygoing and agreeable.
2.
Informal terms referring to a domestic cat.  Synonyms: kitty, kitty-cat, puss, pussy.





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"Pussycat" Quotes from Famous Books



... you've arranged The world for your convenience; and have planned Your mothers' lives between you? I'm to be The dear old grannie in the ingleneuk; And hide my grizzled wisps in a mutch with frills? Nay, God forbid! I'm no tame pussycat, To snuggle on the corner of a settle, With one eye open for the chance-thrown titbit, While the good housewife goes about her duties: Me! lapping with blinking eyes and possing paws, The saucer of skim-milk that young skinflint spares me, And purring, when ...
— Krindlesyke • Wilfrid Wilson Gibson
... desultory, and in the midst Lucilla made her appearance with Horatia, who was laughing and saying, 'I found this child wandering about the park, and the little pussycat won't tell where she ...
— Hopes and Fears - scenes from the life of a spinster • Charlotte M. Yonge
... go so far as that. But that joke of your little pussycat about the sweethearts got mixed with the smell of the wind and the chrysanthemums and dahlias and sunflowers." He pressed his fingers hard on his eyes again. "Do you know, there's pain in it—worse than you'd think! The half-idea ...
— Somehow Good • William de Morgan


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