"pussivant" meaning in English

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Verb

Forms: pussivants [present, singular, third-person], pussivanting [participle, present], pussivanted [participle, past], pussivanted [past], puzzivant [alternative]
Etymology: An alteration of pursuivant. Etymology templates: {{etymon|en|id=fuss}}, {{from|en|pursuivant}} pursuivant Head templates: {{en-verb}} pussivant (third-person singular simple present pussivants, present participle pussivanting, simple past and past participle pussivanted)
  1. (dialectal, archaic) To engage in pointless, annoying or meddlesome activity; to fuss around. Tags: archaic, dialectal
    Sense id: en-pussivant-en-verb-CGwVKmB~ Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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