pussy

From puss (“cat”) +‎ -y (diminutive suffix).

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) enPR: po͝osʹi, IPA^(key): /ˈpʊ.si/

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• Rhymes: -ʊsi
• Hyphenation: pus‧sy

pussy (countable and uncountable, plural pussies)

2. (informal, endearing) A cat. [from 17th c.]

   Synonyms: kitty, puss, pussy-cat; see also Thesaurus:cat

   • 2007 November 17, Liz Jones, “Are cats the new dogs?”, in The Independent:

     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.

4. (vulgar, colloquial) The female genitalia; the vulva or vagina. [from 17th c.]

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:vagina, Thesaurus:vulva

   Hypernyms: see Thesaurus:genitalia

5. Anything soft and furry; a bloom form, or catkin, as on the pussy willow. [from 19th c.]
6. (vulgar, slang, uncountable) Sexual intercourse with a woman; usually in the phrase get some pussy. [from 20th c.]

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:copulation

   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!

7. (derogatory, vulgar, slang) A coward; a weakling; an ineffectual, timid, or pathetic person. [from 20th c.]

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:coward, Thesaurus:milksop

   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^[1], 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.

8. (colloquial, endearing, now rare) A woman or girl, seen as having characteristics associated with cats such as sweetness. [from 16th c.]
   • 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?

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

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:anus

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

    thrussy; clussy

11. (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.
12. (dated) A game of tipcat.

    Synonyms: cat, cat and dog, one-a-cat, piggy

• Maori: poti, puihi

From pus +‎ -y.

• enPR: pŭs'i, IPA^(key): /ˈpʌ.si/

• Audio (Northern California):

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• Rhymes: -ʌsi
• Hyphenation: pus‧sy

pussy (comparative pussier, superlative pussiest)

1. (medicine) Containing or exuding pus.

   Alternative form: pusy

   Synonyms: purulent, suppurant

pussy (comparative more pussy, superlative most pussy)

1. (slang, dated) Alternative form of pursy.

• “pussy”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

• “pussy”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• Fielding, Lucie (2021) Trans Sex: Clinical Approaches to Trans Sexualities and Erotic Embodiments, New York: Routledge, →ISBN, page 96

Borrowed from English pussy.

• IPA^(key): /pu.si/

pussy m (plural pussys)

1. (slang) (vagina)
2. (slang) (effeminate man)