Crossword clues for puss
puss
- Sock in the ___
- Shrewd storybook cat
- Kitty or kisser
- Kisser, or word with ''glamour''
- Kisser, or kitty
- Jesus Lizard song about a cat?
- He's in boots
- Girly man
- Feline in boots
- Fairy tale character "in boots"
- Fairy tale cat "in boots"
- Face (Sl.)
- Countenance, colloquially
- Certain wearer of boots
- Cat (abbr)
- Booted panto character
- Animal in boots
- A crab makes a sour one
- 2011 animated movie "___ in Boots"
- "___ in Boots" (2011 animated movie)
- "___ in Boots."
- ''___ in Boots''
- ___ in Boots (kid-lit cat)
- ___ in Boots
- Hunter conspires to rouse game
- Mug
- Kitty or kisser, slangily
- Cat in boots?
- Kisser or kitty
- Face, slangily
- Obscene terms for female genitals
- Informal terms
- Booted feline?
- "___ in Boots" (classic fairy tale)
- ___ in the corner
- Tabby
- Booted one
- Postscript about American pet?
- Pet turning up near ship
- Face, in slang
- Face: Slang
- Face, so to speak
- "__ in Boots" (fairy tale)
- Character in boots
- Boots-wearing cat of kid-lit
- '-- in Boots'
- Word with sour or glamour
- Word with ''sour'' or ''glamour''
- Suffix for sour
- Sour ending?
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Puss \Puss\ (p[.u]s), n. [Cf. D. poes, Ir. & Gael. pus.]
A cat; -- a fondling appellation.
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A hare; -- so called by sportsmen.
Puss in the corner, a game in which all the players but one occupy corners of a room, or certain goals in the open air, and exchange places, the one without a corner endeavoring to get a corner while it is vacant, leaving some other without one.
Puss moth (Zo["o]l.), any one of several species of stout bombycid moths belonging to Cerura, Harpyia, and allied genera, esp. Harpyia vinuli, of Europe. The larv[ae] are humpbacked, and have two caudal appendages.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"cat," 1520s, but probably much older than the record, perhaps imitative of the hissing sound commonly used to get a cat's attention. A conventional name for a cat in Germanic languages and as far off as Afghanistan; it is the root of the principal word for "cat" in Rumanian (pisica) and secondary words in Lithuanian (puz), Low German (puus), Swedish dialect katte-pus, etc. Applied to a girl or woman from c.1600, originally in a negative sense, implying unpleasant cat-like qualities; but by mid-19c. in affectionate use.
"the face" (but sometimes, especially in pugilism slang, "the mouth"), 1890, slang, from Irish pus "lip, mouth."
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. 1 (context informal English) A cat. 2 A girl or young woman. 3 (context dated hunting English) A hare. 4 (context vulgar slang English) vulva (female genitalia). Etymology 2
n. (context slang English) The mouth.
WordNet
Wikipedia
Puss may refer to:
- "Puss" (song), a 1992 noise rock song
- Puss (Swedish music duo), a musical group which performs live bitpop
- Puss (film), 2010 Swedish film
- Puss Milroy (1887–1916), Scottish rugby union player
- Cat, a small, usually furry, domesticated, carnivorous mammal
- Tom Puss, a fictional anthropomorphic cat
- Puss Moth (disambiguation), species of moths and similarly named items
Puss are a musical duo formed in Stockholm in 2001. They play live bitpop using two old-school chubby Game Boys and the Little Sound DJ tracker. Their name comes from the Swedish word puss meaning "small kiss". The duo consist of LayDJ (aka Josefin Karlsson) and Tobi-Wan (aka Tobias von Hofsten). They released their first album, entitled We Are Puss, in 2001. Since that time they have given numerous live performances and have released an EP single, " Master and Slave". It is their first work featuring vocals and thus non–Game Boy sounds.
Usage examples of "puss".
Then, as in the tilting of a mirror, it shifted again to resemble a many-hoofed, amethystine crustacean coated in sores of oozing puss, out of which sprouted many black shiny eyes, which in turn were mounted on swaying, antennae-like projections.
Puss and I went over, I tried once again to reach Tush Bannon at his Boatel by phone.
But before Puss and I went over, I tried once again to reach Tush Bannon at his Boatel by phone.
The sly puss went out quickly enough, but I was as sharp as she, and trod on the tail of her dress so that she could not shut the door after her.
You know how some of them go a bit ucky - a yellow stone might look like a lump of solid puss or something.
I embraced her effusively, and the sly little puss, pretending to be surprised to see Marcoline, made her a profound bow, which was returned with much grace.
The sly puss answered with a smile that shewed she understood my meaning.
Now, that is speaking more plainly than perhaps Papa would like, but you are a sensible puss, Arabella, and I have no scruple in being open with you.
You have your career before you: I wish you very well, and in proof of this can only advise you not to saddle yourself with an extravagant and shatterbrained little puss for a wife!
The sheets are heavenly against her flesh, sweet numbness is spreading through her limbs, and although the sanction of nightfall is still a long way off, she feels herself drifting into sleep, only vaguely aware of a gentle commotion next to her in the bed which, only when she wakes next morning, she will discover to be Puss, by then nestled, in a state of perfect contentment, at her feet.
Miss Puss has told so many people she makes aprons for her missionary money that she believes it sure enough.
Puss, who was always up for any kind of mischief, had begun to imitate him, and Ouentin was hardpressed to restrain his laughter.
The sly puss went out quickly enough, but I was as sharp as she, and trod on the tail of her dress so that she could not shut the door after her.
It was a Puss Moth, a small sky-blue high-winged monoplane, powered by the versatile De Havilland four-cylinder aero engine.
Vicky Camberwell brought the Puss Moth out over the final crest of the pass, with a mere two hundred feet to spare, for the small overladen aircraft was fast approaching its ceiling.