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],
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],
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],
[
"pus",
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],
[
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],
[
"پیشی",
"پیشی#Persian"
],
[
"பூசை",
"பூசை#Tamil"
],
[
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],
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},
{
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},
"expansion": "Persian پیشی (piši)",
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},
{
"args": {
"1": "ta",
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},
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},
{
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},
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"1": "sc",
"2": "pisittu"
},
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}
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29,
33
]
],
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{
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11,
15
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],
"text": "Come here, puss! I've got some milk for you.",
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"A cat."
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"(informal, often as a term of address) A cat."
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143,
147
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"text": "He then began to beat about, in the ſame Language, and in the ſame Manner, as if he had been beating for a Hare, and at laſt cried out, 'Soho! Puſs is not far off. Here's her Form, upon my Soul; I believe I may cry ſtole away.'",
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19,
23
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"ref": "1881, P. Chr. Asbjörnsen [i.e., Peter Christen Asbjørnsen], “A Day with the Capercailzies”, in H. L. Brækstad, transl., Round the Yule Log. Norwegian Folk and Fairy Tales, London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, →OCLC, page 77:",
"text": "'[…] It won't kill Puss any better for that.' / \"'But, goodness gracious, what can that hare be made of?' I asked.",
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192,
196
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"ref": "1958, T[erence] H[anbury] White, chapter 16, in The Once and Future King, New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam's Sons, →ISBN, book I (The Sword in the Stone):",
"text": "Mention a hare to Master Twyti and, although he would still go on galloping after the wretched hart which seemed to be his destiny, he would gallop with one eye over his shoulder yearning for puss.",
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"(dated, hunting) A hare."
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"The vulva (female genitalia)."
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"(vulgar, slang) The vulva (female genitalia)."
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"ref": "1986, Tim Kazurinsky, Denise DeClue, About Last Night, spoken by Bernie (Jim Belushi):",
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"(uncountable, vulgar, slang, metonymic) Sex with a woman."
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"A coward; a wuss; someone who is unable to stand up for themselves."
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]
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"(vulgar, slang, chiefly Canada, US) A coward; a wuss; someone who is unable to stand up for themselves."
],
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"Canada",
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"countable",
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"uncountable",
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}
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{
"enpr": "po͝os",
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"Australia"
]
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"ipa": "/pʉs/",
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"Northern-Ireland",
"Scotland"
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},
{
"rhymes": "-ʊs"
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{
"homophone": "pus (without the foot-strut split)"
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"_dis1": "0 0",
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"pus",
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],
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"bus",
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"pussen",
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155,
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"ref": "1991, New York Magazine, volume 24, number 21, page 62:",
"text": "Hubbert has a rasping voice and a razory laugh, and he's busy and theatrical in the worst way — a noisy performing pro with whirlwind arms and a saturnine puss.",
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"(slang) The mouth."
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"_dis1": "100 0",
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"_dis1": "100 0",
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"_dis1": "100 0",
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"The face."
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"(slang) The face."
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"ipa": "/pʉs/",
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"ref": "2010 Alien Purgatory page 40",
"text": "It didn't move as much, and the same teary puss leaked from its eyes."
},
{
"ref": "2012 Southern Supposition page 132",
"text": "People called him Puss Head because if you crossed him, he went to great lengths to make sure that before you died, puss leaked from your head."
},
{
"ref": "2016 When Crickets Cry page 267",
"text": "Puss leaked out from beneath white gauze on his back and trickled down his spine."
}
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{
"word": "gigglepuss"
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{
"word": "glamourpuss"
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{
"word": "puss caterpillar"
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{
"word": "puss-gentleman"
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{
"word": "puss in a bag"
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{
"word": "puss in the corner"
},
{
"word": "pusslike"
},
{
"word": "puss moth"
},
{
"word": "puss out"
},
{
"word": "puss-puss"
},
{
"word": "sea-puss"
},
{
"word": "sea puss"
},
{
"word": "sour puss"
}
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"pūse",
"puse#Middle_Low_German"
],
[
"pūskatte",
"puskatte#Middle_Low_German"
],
[
"poes",
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],
[
"بسة",
"بسة"
],
[
"poes",
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],
[
"Puus",
"Puus#Low_German"
],
[
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"Puuskatte#Low_German"
],
[
"pus",
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],
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"kattepus",
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],
[
"pus",
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],
[
"pisică",
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],
[
"پیشی",
"پیشی#Persian"
],
[
"பூசை",
"பூசை#Tamil"
],
[
"pusa",
"pusa#Tagalog"
],
[
"pisittu",
"pisittu#Sardinian"
]
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},
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"2": "pisittu"
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15
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"text": "He then began to beat about, in the ſame Language, and in the ſame Manner, as if he had been beating for a Hare, and at laſt cried out, 'Soho! Puſs is not far off. Here's her Form, upon my Soul; I believe I may cry ſtole away.'",
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23
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"ref": "1881, P. Chr. Asbjörnsen [i.e., Peter Christen Asbjørnsen], “A Day with the Capercailzies”, in H. L. Brækstad, transl., Round the Yule Log. Norwegian Folk and Fairy Tales, London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, →OCLC, page 77:",
"text": "'[…] It won't kill Puss any better for that.' / \"'But, goodness gracious, what can that hare be made of?' I asked.",
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"ref": "1958, T[erence] H[anbury] White, chapter 16, in The Once and Future King, New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam's Sons, →ISBN, book I (The Sword in the Stone):",
"text": "Mention a hare to Master Twyti and, although he would still go on galloping after the wretched hart which seemed to be his destiny, he would gallop with one eye over his shoulder yearning for puss.",
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"(dated, hunting) A hare."
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"glosses": [
"The vulva (female genitalia)."
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"genitalia",
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"(vulgar, slang) The vulva (female genitalia)."
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"ref": "1986, Tim Kazurinsky, Denise DeClue, About Last Night, spoken by Bernie (Jim Belushi):",
"text": "So don't know! So, what are you gonna do? Sell your birthright for a little bit of puss?",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
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"Sex with a woman."
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"(uncountable, vulgar, slang, metonymic) Sex with a woman."
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"note": "cat, woman, vulva; mouth, face"
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"note": "cat, woman, vulva; mouth, face"
},
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"sense": "cat",
"word": "moggie"
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"sense": "cat",
"word": "moggy"
}
],
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}
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"text": "Hubbert has a rasping voice and a razory laugh, and he's busy and theatrical in the worst way — a noisy performing pro with whirlwind arms and a saturnine puss.",
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"The mouth."
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"(slang) The mouth."
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"The face."
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"(slang) The face."
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"sense": "mouth",
"word": "cakehole"
},
{
"sense": "mouth",
"word": "gob"
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{
"sense": "mouth",
"word": "mush"
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{
"sense": "mouth",
"word": "trap"
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"ref": "2010 Alien Purgatory page 40",
"text": "It didn't move as much, and the same teary puss leaked from its eyes."
},
{
"ref": "2012 Southern Supposition page 132",
"text": "People called him Puss Head because if you crossed him, he went to great lengths to make sure that before you died, puss leaked from your head."
},
{
"ref": "2016 When Crickets Cry page 267",
"text": "Puss leaked out from beneath white gauze on his back and trickled down his spine."
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