Pussy Meaning
/ˈpʊsi/Definition, CEFR level C1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounA cat.
nounThe female genitalia; the vulva or vagina.
Sentence Examples
When the milk turns sour, I'm not the kind of pussy to drink it.
Pal, you're a pussy.
According to Vladimir Chizhov, the word "pussy" is indecent.
CEFR Practice Quiz
The little ____ purred softly while sitting on her owner's warm lap.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The children called the stray cat ____ and left food out for it every evening on the doorstep.
Word Origin & History
Etymology tree English puss Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English pussy From puss (“cat”) + -y (diminutive suffix). Usage of the word to refer to a coward may be influenced by pusillanimous.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"And although, as someone recently said to me, they are not "designer" (she had expected my pussies to be expensive, with a pedigree), to me my cats are the most beautiful in the world."
— 2007 November 17, Liz Jones, “Are cats the new dogs?”, in The Independent:
"I'ma get up in that body like a surgeon / Pussy wetter than a damn sea urchin"
— 2018, “Super Saiyan Superman”, in Ta13oo, performed by Denzel Curry, United States:
"When the pussies on the willow
Open in the spring,
If you listen very closely
You will hear them sing:—
We are pussies, we are pussies,
though we never purr;
We are gaily swinging, swinging,
in our coats of fur."
— before 1895, “Pussy Willow”:
"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!"
— 1991, Daniel Clowes, Art School Confidential:
"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?"
— 1925, Sinclair Lewis, Martin Arrowsmith (fiction), Harcourt Brace & Company:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The little ____ purred softly while sitting on her owner's warm lap.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The children called the stray cat ____ and left food out for it every evening on the doorstep.