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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

... And eaten up. The mice were taught That they some cunning must devise To keep the prey from pussy's eyes. ...

— Aesop, in Rhyme - Old Friends in a New Dress • Marmaduke Park

... A pussy cat, a parrot, and a monkey once lived together in a funny little red house, with one great round window like a big eye set in the front. And they were a very happy family as long as they had an old woman to cook their dinner and mend their clothes. ...

— Harper's Young People, October 26, 1880 - An Illustrated Weekly • Various

... ceiling and floor, a little flickering subdued light that trembles on the great arm chairs. "Flo" is curled up, with both ends saluting one another, on the velvet rug before the fender, and at a civil distance away is a purring bundle of gray and white pussy, with her paws doubled in and her eyes blinking at the half-burned coals. There is a bird cage in each window, and an odd little lullaby chirp or the grating of the little iron swings is the only sound ...

— Honor Edgeworth • Vera

... now ready, and the students ate enough for six, and gave Prince some cold meat which they happened to have in the boat. Prince sat on his hind legs with delight and mewed like a pussy cat. When all was finished, the students handed Matte a shining silver coin, and allowed him to fill his pipe with a special kind of tobacco. They then thanked him for his kind hospitality and went on their journey, much regretted by Prince, who sat with a woeful ...

— The Lilac Fairy Book • Andrew Lang

... on the veranda with all out of doors to give us appetite. It was Buttercup Sunday, a yellow June one that had been preceded by Pussy Willow Sunday, Dandelion Sunday, Apple Blossom, Wild Iris, and Lilac Sunday, to be followed by Daisy and Black-Eyed Susan and White Clematis and Goldenrod and Wild Aster ...

— Penelope's Postscripts • Kate Douglas Wiggin

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