ˈpuss-cat
= pussy-cat.
| 1565 K. Daryus (Brandl) 304 He shall go play with my mothers pussecat. 1598 Florio, Micia, a pusse-kat, a kitlin. 1604 W. Terilo Fr. Bacon's Proph. 171 in Hazl. E.P.P. IV. 274 The Pus-Cat and the Dogge, For safegard from the stealth Of Rats, and Mise, and Wolfe, and Foxe. 1915 J. Galsworthy Bit o' Love i. 19 Old puss-cat! 1957 [see hep-cat]. |