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pussivant

pussivant verb: to engage in pointless, annoying or meddlesome activity; to fuss around.

Verb

pussivant (third-person singular simple present pussivants, present participle pussivanting, simple past and past participle pussivanted)

  1. (archaic, dialectal) To engage in pointless, annoying or meddlesome activity; to fuss around.
    • The weather was fine, and the hay was in. It was one of those intervals between harvests which he was wont to take easy, and it would amuse him to think of his neighbour always ‘puzzivantin’’ over some ‘improvement’ or other.1923, John Galsworthy, Captures, London: William Heinemann Ltd., page 4

Forms of pussivant

third-person singular presentpussivants
present participlepussivanting
past participlepussivanted
pastpussivanted
alternative formpuzzivant

Origin of pussivant

An alteration of pursuivant.

Questions about pussivant

What does pussivant mean?
Pussivant means to engage in pointless, annoying or meddlesome activity; to fuss around.
What part of speech is pussivant?
Pussivant is a verb.
What is the past tense of pussivant?
The past tense of pussivant is pussivanted.

Words near pussivant in the dictionary

  1. pussifies
  2. pussify
  3. pussifying
  4. pussing
  5. pussing out
  6. pussivant
  7. pussivanted
  8. pussivanting
  9. pussivants
  10. pussley
  11. pusslike

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