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pussy cat

pussy cat is the alternative form of pussy-cat.

Meaning of pussy-cat

Noun

pussy-cat (plural pussy-cats)

  1. (endearing, informal) A pet domestic cat; a pussy.
    • Ding dong bell,
      The Cat is in the well.
      Who put her in,
      Little Johnny Green.
      What a naughty boy was that,
      To drown poor Puſſy Cat,
      Who never did him any harm,
      And kill'd the mice in his father's barn.1795, Gammer Gurton's Garland, or, The Nursery Parnassus, Stockton: R. Christopher, page 25
  2. (informal) A gentle or soft-hearted person.
    • He looks stern, but he’s just a big pussy-cat really.
  3. The silky catkin of various willows.
  4. (dated) A sexy woman.

Forms of pussy cat

pluralpussy cats

Questions about pussy cat

What is pussy cat the alternative form of?
Pussy cat is the alternative form of pussy-cat.

Words near pussy cat in the dictionary

  1. pussy bandits
  2. pussy bow
  3. pussy bows
  4. pussy boy
  5. pussy boys
  6. pussy cat
  7. pussy cats
  8. pussy control
  9. pussy eating
  10. pussy fart
  11. pussy farts

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pussy cat (page history and authors); pussy-cat (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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