adj
Meaning 1
Containing or exuding pus.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: medicine, sciences
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: purulent, suppurant
Antonyms: none provided
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adj
Containing or exuding pus.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: medicine, sciences
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: purulent, suppurant
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Alternative form of pursy.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, alternative, dated, slang
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
name
A village in La Léchère, Savoie department, France.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A cat.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, dated, endearing, informal, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: kitty, puss, pussy-cat, baudrons, cat, domestic cat, grimalkin, housecat, kibty, kitten, kitter, kitty-cat, kitty witty, malkin, mog, moggy, mouser, pussy
Antonyms: none provided
noun
The female genitalia; the vulva or vagina.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: colloquial, countable, uncountable, vulgar
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: axe wound, bearded clam, beaver, berk, bonne bouche, box, bun, bush, cavern, clunge, coin slot, cooch, coochie, cookie, cooter, cooze, crack, crevice, cunny, cunt, fanny, fish lips, foo-foo, front bottom, front bum, front hole, gash, ginch, girl, Grand Canyon, honeypot, hoo-ha, innie, juice box, kebab, kitty, la-la, love box, love tunnel, minge, minnie, monosyllable, moocha, muff, muffin, nonny, pee-pee, penis fly trap, pink, pink bits, poontang, pump, punani, pussy, quim, sausage wallet, sheath, slit, snapper, snatch, squish mitten, stench trench, strange, sugar walls, tuppence, trap, twat, twinkle, vadge, vag, vagina, vaginer, va-jay-jay, vertical smile, Vicky, Victoria, Virginia, vulva, wee-wee, whisker biscuit, wizard's sleeve, badly packed kebab, beef curtains, burger, chocha, clam, coochy, coot, fur burger, fur pie, gee, girl penis, hair pie, ham sandwich, honey hole, it, ladybits, mooshoo, mott, na-na, nooky, noonie, old hat, pee flap, prat, pudendum muliebre, quaint, quiff, rat, roast beef, scut, slot, treasures, vajay, yoni
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: danger zone, down there, genital organs, genitalia, genitals, genitors, intimate parts, junk, nethers, no-no spot, pee-pee, private parts, privates, pudenda, reproductive organs, sex organs, sweet spot, undercarriage, underparts, weapon, wee-wee
noun
Anything soft and furry; a bloom form, or catkin, as on the pussy willow.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, dated, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Sexual intercourse with a female; usually in the phrase get some pussy.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: slang, uncountable, vulgar
Synonyms: aphrodisia, carnal knowledge, coitus, coition, commerce, commixtion, congress, conjunction, connection, consummation, conversation, copulation, coupling, intercourse, intimacy, intimate relations, intromission, joining, lovemaking, lustmaking, mating, mounting, pareunia, penetration, relations, sex, sexual congress, sexual intercourse, sexual relation, sexual union, swiving, union, the beast with two backs, the birds and the bees, boom-boom, chesterfield rugby, horizontal dancing, horizontal hula, horizontal jogging, horizontal mambo, horizontal refreshments, horizontal slam dance, how's your father, love, Netflix and chill, physical love, roll in the hay, Ugandan affairs, Ugandan discussions, action, ass, bang, barney-mugging, beef injection, bonking, cuntfuck, fucking, frig, fucky-fucky, hot beef injection, hump, humpa humpa, jig-jig, jiggy-jiggy, lay, legover, meat injection, nookie, old hat, pipe, plow, plough, poon, poontang, punani, pussy, ride, root, rumpo, rumpy-pumpy, seeing-to, sexy time, sexy times, screw, screwing, shag, skin, snu snu, tang, trim, hanky-panky, funny business, making whoopee, jiggery-pokery, monkey business, fooling about, fooling around, playing around
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A coward; a weakling; an ineffectual, timid, weak-spirited, or pathetic person.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, derogatory, slang, uncountable, vulgar
Synonyms: bottler, caitiff, candy-ass, candy-arse, coistril, coward, chicken, chicken liver, chickenshit, cocktail, cowardy custard, craven, dog, fraidy cat, funker, gutless wonder, invertebrate, jessie, lizard, milquetoast, nancy, niddering, nidering, nidget, niding, nithing, piece of crap, piece of shit, pisspants, poltroon, pullet, punk, pussy, pussyhole, quiche-eater, quakebreech, quakebuttock, recreant, scaredy cat, scaredy pants, shithouse, sissy, slag, sluggard, snool, sook, weak sister, wheyface, yellow belly, yellow back, big girl's blouse, crybaby, milksop, namby, namby-pamby, nestle-cock, pansy, pantywaist, poon, pushover, softy, tenderling, weakling, weenie, wimp, wuss, wussy
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A woman or girl, seen as having characteristics associated with cats such as sweetness.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic, colloquial, countable, endearing, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
The anus of a man, usually the passive participant in gay sex.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable, vulgar
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: a-hole, anus, arsehole, arse, asscunt, asshole, asspussy, ass, back alley, back door, back passage, balloon knot, batty, batty hole, bootyhole, bottom, brown eye, browneye, bumhole, bum, bung-hole, bunghole, bungus, butthole, buttonhole, chocolate channel, chocolate starfish, chuff, cinnamon ring, clacka, clacker, cornhole, craphole, cumhole, dinger, ding, dock, dookie hole, dung funnel, exit hole, fartbox, farthole, fourth point of contact, freckle, fuckhole, fudge tunnel, fundament, Gary Glitter, gump stump, Hershey highway, jacksie, jacksy, keister, leather cheerio, love hole, other end, poop chute, pooper, poophole, rear exit, rectum, ringpiece, rosebud, rusty sheriff's badge, shithole, shitter, sluthole, smelly freckle, starfish, stinkhole, tewel, tooter, tradesman's entrance, turd cutter, vent, wazoo, where the sun don't shine, windpipe, ying-yang
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Used in blends to form deliberately grotesque and unwieldy words referring to cavities. See -ussy.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Internet, countable, humorous, uncountable, vulgar
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A notional part of the body used during exertion of effort; usually in the form put one's whole pussy into.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Internet, countable, humorous, uncountable, vulgar
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A game of tipcat.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, dated, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: cat, cat and dog, one-a-cat, piggy
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Used in a phrasal verb: pussy out.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
containing pus
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: purulent
Antonyms: none provided
noun
informal terms referring to a domestic cat
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: kitty, kitty-cat, puss, pussycat
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: domestic cat, house cat, Felis domesticus, Felis catus
noun
obscene terms for female genitals
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: cunt, puss, slit, snatch, twat
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: female genitalia, female genitals, female genital organ, fanny
History
Etymology tree English pus Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Germanic *-gaz Proto-West Germanic *-g Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English pussy From pus + -y.
A variant of pursy with dialectal assimilation of /ɹ/ before a coronal consonant.
From French Pussy, claimed to be from an inherited Roman personal name Pussius.
Etymology tree English puss Proto-Germanic *-j-, *-ij- Proto-West Germanic *-i, *-ī 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.
Across languages
456 source translations are retained for this English entry.