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puzzivant

puzzivant is the alternative form 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

Forms of puzzivant

third-person singular presentpuzzivants
present participlepuzzivanting
past participlepuzzivanted
pastpuzzivanted

Questions about puzzivant

What is puzzivant the alternative form of?
Puzzivant is the alternative form of pussivant.

Words near puzzivant in the dictionary

  1. Puzio
  2. Puzios
  3. Puzon
  4. puzzel
  5. puzzels
  6. puzzivant
  7. puzzivanted
  8. puzzivanting
  9. puzzivants
  10. puzzle
  11. puzzle box

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Adapted from Wiktionary: puzzivant (page history and authors); pussivant (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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