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pussivants

pussivants is the third-person singular simple present indicative of pussivant.

Meaning of pussivant

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

Questions about pussivants

What is pussivants the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Pussivants is the third-person singular simple present indicative of pussivant.

Words near pussivants in the dictionary

  1. pussing
  2. pussing out
  3. pussivant
  4. pussivanted
  5. pussivanting
  6. pussivants
  7. pussley
  8. pusslike
  9. pussly
  10. pusstie
  11. pussums

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