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pussycat

pussycat 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 pussycat

pluralpussycats

Phrases with pussycat

Questions about pussycat

What is pussycat the alternative form of?
Pussycat is the alternative form of pussy-cat.

Words near pussycat in the dictionary

  1. pussybow
  2. pussybows
  3. pussyboy
  4. pussyboys
  5. pussybreath
  6. pussycat
  7. pussycat bow
  8. pussycat bows
  9. pussycats
  10. pussydom
  11. pussyfest

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pussycat (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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