Meaning

(informal, endearing) A cat..

Definitions by Sense

1. (informal, endearing) A cat.
2. (vulgar, colloquial) The female genitalia; the vulva or vagina.
3. (dated) Anything soft and furry; a bloom form, or catkin, as on the pussy willow.
4. (vulgar, slang, uncountable) Sexual intercourse with a female; usually in the phrase get some pussy.
5. (derogatory, vulgar, slang) A coward; a weakling; an ineffectual, timid, weak-spirited, or pathetic person.
6. (colloquial, endearing, now rare) A woman or girl, seen as having characteristics associated with cats such as sweetness.
7. (vulgar) The anus of a man, usually the passive participant in gay sex.
8. (vulgar, humorous, Internet slang) Used in blends to form deliberately grotesque and unwieldy words referring to cavities. See -ussy.

Example Sentences

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.

I'ma get up in that body like a surgeon / Pussy wetter than a damn sea urchin

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.

I’m gonna get me some pussy tonight.

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!

You're such a pussy!

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?

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."

Word Forms

• pussies
• pussying
• pussied
• pussier
• pussiest
• more pussy
• most pussy

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Use pussy when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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