pussy n.
1. (also pussey, pussie) the vagina; also attrib.
in Pills to Purge Melancholy II 82: As fleet as my Feet, / Could convey me I sped, / To Johnny who many / Times Pussey had fed. | (1719)||
‘Cat’ [broadsheet ballad] A desperate battle between them [i.e. two copulating lovers] was fought / And John kept knocking poor pussy about. | ||
Sam Sly 3 Mar. 2/3: Tom H—e, Thomas F—s, and William Wr—t, not to be so fond of playing ‘pussy’ so much with the gals. | ||
‘Lady Pokingham’ in Pearl 1 July 19: Where’s your hand? here, put it there; can’t you feel the hair just beginning to grow on my pussey? | ||
My Secret Life (1966) V 1050: Sure and ye’ll say ye niver seed such a pussy as moine. | ||
Town-Bull 113: ‘How is Pussey?’ [...] ‘Pussey is hot [...] She wants stroking’. | ||
Sheaves from an Old Escritoire 49: When her pussie had been worked to a certain pitch, the girl [...] would squirt jets of perfumed water into the burning cunt. | ||
Crissie 109: ‘Hillo, Criss, give us a kiss! How’s yer pussy after last night?’. | ||
Lustful Memoirs of a Young and Passionated Girl 20: No, you are not old enough nor large enough now, but it won’t be long [...] before your pussy will be able to take in one as big as that. | ||
in Letter from My Father (1978) 38: Nan’s cunt was the first pussy that I ever had my fingers in. | ||
Anecdota Americana I 137: I put his hand on my pussy, and he got up and washed himself! | ||
🎵 I stroke it every chance I get, it’s my girl’s pussy. / It’s never dirty, always clean, it’s the best I’ve ever seen — is my girl’s pussy. | ‘My Girl’s Pussy’||
Tropic of Cancer (1963) 43: She commenced rubbing her pussy affectionately, stroking it with her two hands. | ||
Really the Blues 85: The cash customers were hotter than a pussy with the pox. | ||
Nunnery versus Fuckery 24: Over-joyed by the sensations that the red-head’s little pussy was causing to shoot up and down his sensitive prick-shaft. | ||
Big Smoke 162: Who’s got the lips I love to kiss and the pussy I love to tickle! | ||
Deep Down In The Jungle 51: I hate to talk about your mother, / She’s a good old soul. / She’s got a ten-ton pussy / And a rubber asshole. | ||
No Beast So Fierce 8: My pussy’s so long I use it for a jump rope. | ||
Moses Ascending (1984) 21: I hadn’t raised a black pussy since I was in England, being that white ones were more available. | ||
House of Hunger (2013) [ebook] ‘Of course it’s another thing when a man is starving for pussy’. | ||
(con. 1950s) Harder They Come 112: You can’ done pussy, so don’t mek it rule you. | ||
An Eng. Madam 72: He tried fingering my pussy, very gentle like. | ||
Godson 31: Poking a pussy in my face is like giving Popeye spinach’. | ||
Dolores Claiborne 98: Has he had his penis into you, Selena? Has he had it in your pussy? | ||
White Boy Shuffle 6: Passing mashed potatoes and photos of pussy lesions around the table. | ||
Grandmother’s Erotic Folktales 185: Miss Dorothy went to the river to bathe / And Mr Catfish made a raid! [...] Miss Dorothy bawled, ‘Oh my! Oh me! / Look, Mr Catfish is nibbling me pussy!’. | ||
(refs. to 1920s–30s) Where Dead Voices Gather (ms.) 147: Speaking of early black vocal groups, slang terms for the female genitalia or vagina, and errant pullulations in country music, mention might here be made of the Old South Quartette’s ‘Pussy Cat Rag’ of 1928 [...] From there, it was not far to Bo Chatman’s 1931 ‘Pussy Cat Blues.’ The leap to country music came with a Western-swing recording called ‘Pussy, Pussy, Pussy,’ recorded in 1939 by the Light Crust Doughboys. | ||
Peepshow [ebook] The glossy paper had been shredded across her neck, boobs and pussy. | ||
Keisha the Sket (2021) 27: He slid his 2 fingaz in ma pussy. | ||
Carnival 231: Listen here. You ain’t the first smooth-talking nigger to wet he prick with a little white pussy. | ||
Running the Books 55: You fucking cunt ass ho, you got the stinkiest damn pussy in this whole place. | ||
Sellout (2016) 230: Women of all creeds [and] colors [...] have to suffer through their partners humping them at two miles a minute and yelling ‘Who owns the pussy?’. | ||
Blood Miracles : Pussy’s just that fucking significant, is that it? | ||
🎵 If you know your pum-pum clean [...] your pussy good, your body tight. | ‘Big Bumpa Gal’||
🎵 Bring a bucket and a mop for this wet-ass pussy / Give me everything you got for this wet-ass pussy. | ‘WAP’||
Empty Wigs (t/s) 293: In those days pussies weren’t shaved. |
2. a (young) woman.
[ | Anatomie of Abuses 55: He hath his pretie Pussie to huggle withall]. | |
Dr. Thorne 56: You must have dear little pussy too. [...] Pussy was the youngest Miss Gresham. | ||
Hillyars and Burtons (1870) 81: How’s pussy? I was sorry for the old girl getting nabbed. | ||
Mabel n.p.: My jealous Pussy cut up rough / The day before I bought her muff / With sable trimming [F&H]. | ||
Ranch Verses 16: Purr ’round yer gentle pussies, neow rope ’em! Balance all! | ‘The Cowboys’ Christmas Ball’ in||
Sport (Adelaide) 23 Aug. 9/3: Jack F says when he gets his new suit he will show the boys the way to catch tarts. You could not catch pussy after last Monday night, Jacky . | ||
Somebody in Boots 110: Y’all know that, pussy? | ||
Ghost Squad 87: When a crook speaks about ‘the pussies’ he’s talking about furs — or women. They go together. | ||
Devil All the Time 136: Matson liked to think of himself as the school cock-hound, was always bragging about the pussy he picked up. | ||
🎵 See the pussy on the back doors getting slap, slap slap slap. | ‘Mandem Salute’||
Young Team 102: ‘A’m ir a dug! Always chasin pussies’. |
3. the female pubic hair.
My Secret Life (1966) II 222: I had seen the girl’s virgin cunt, and recollect the look of pussy, belly, thighs and slit. | ||
School Life in Paris 14: ‘Dkd you ever see such big voluptuous thighs?’ ‘Ah! but look at the “pussie” in between them!’. | ||
Secrets of Harry Bright (1986) 145: ‘I used to date a girl with a pussy like that!’ ‘Green?’ said the club pro. ‘Velvet,’ said Otto. | ||
Turning Angel 277: They all shave their pussies. |
4. (also puss) the cat-o’-nine-tails.
On Many Seas 226: He could have gloried in seeing the alternate white and red streaks rise on the paternal back in response to ‘Pussy’s’ gentle caresses. | (H.E. Hamblen)||
Townsville Dly Bulletin (Qld) 27 Aug. 3/3: Convicts do not refer to the cat o' nine tails. They are ‘sent down for a dose of Pussy’. | ||
Letters from the Big House 37: Six with the pussy I had that time. | ||
Lowspeak 116: Puss – the cat o’nine tails; a flogging. |
5. a gentle, kind person.
[ | Paul Pry 5 Mar. 5/1: Mr. W. W—n, the Wellclose square pussey, not to visit the Blakeney's Head so often, but to think more of the young woman in St. Luke’s]. | |
Arrowsmith 64: You ought to hear some of the docs that are the sweetest old pussies with their patients – the way they bawl out the nurses. | ||
Mail & Guardian 13 Apr. 🌐 Mike Tyson. Once described as ‘the baddest man on the planet’, he now says he is a ‘pussy’. |
6. an old woman, usu. a spinster, who is inquisitive and meddling.
Truth (Melbourne) 10 Jan. 6/3: That cheap philanthropy [...] pursued by all the purse-proud Pecksniffian pussies of the Commonwealth. | ||
Main Street (1921) 124: Mrs. Westlake, wife of the veteran physician, marched into Carol’s living-room like an amiable old pussy. | ||
Murder Is Announced (1958) 32: Don’t you despise the old Pussies in this village of yours, my boy? | ||
Glitter Dome (1982) 170: Gibson Hand was irritated because a bunch of celebrity pussies were trying to put his favorite newspaper, The National Enquirer, out of business. | ||
Fools of Fortune 145: ‘Foul old pussy,’ Cynthia said. |
7. a general term for women in pl. or a woman/vagina as representing sex; thus sexual intercourse itself (uses are often indistinguishable); also attrib.
I Can Get It For You Wholesale 48: I wouldn’t miss a second of this for all the pussy in Paris. | ||
in Limerick (1953) 215: [They] built a world-circling pussy cartel. | ||
Lonely Londoners 100: Boy, it have bags of white pussy in London. | ||
Hell’s Angels (1967) 24: I wasn’t hurtin’ for pussy anyway. [Ibid.] 200: The new pussy would dance a bit, drink a few beers, then roar off into the night with her Shane. | ||
Semi-Tough 12: I believe a cat could hang around with you and get hisself some white pussy. | ||
The Park and Other Stories (1983) 21: ‘Dose whities a case,’ Sly said sourly [...] ‘Yah. Dey come looking forra black pussy.’. | ||
Last Toke 9: New York full of pussy givin’ itself away fo’ drinks an’ a meal. | ||
Life and Times of Little Richard 152: Gloria says she was the first one that ever gave Richard some pussy. | ||
(con. early 1950s) L.A. Confidential 124: Let’s talk about pussy. Did you get laid last night? | ||
🎵 If people out there, not hip to the fact / Strawberry is a girl, sellin pussy for crack. | ‘Based on a True Story’||
(con. 1964-65) Sex and Thugs and Rock ’n’ Roll 134: She saved her love pussy for her man. The Johns were biz and didn’t count as sex. | ||
Observer Rev. 10 Oct. 13: Endless discussions about ‘pussy’ and companionable sessions ogling photos of women having sex with pigs. | ||
(con. 1975–6) Steel Toes 19: You know I’m state-raised [...] when the fuck am I supposed to of had any pussy. | ||
Chopper 3 34: I manage to pull more pussy than a Chinese restaurant. | ||
Life Dr. Bill was there [...] primarily for the pussy: . | ||
Blacktop Wasteland 1: ‘Y’all might as well go on back home to your ugly wives and try and get some Tuesday night pussy’. |
8. (Aus.) a rabbit.
Capricornia (1939) 425: You couldn’t shoot pussy. | ||
Popular Dict. Aus. Sl. 58: Pussy, a rabbit. |
9. a fur garment; thus pussy-hoisting, stealing furs; pussy mob, a gang of fur thieves; pussy-shop, a furrier’s.
[ | Two & Three 16 Jan. [synd. col.] A genuine seal coat that used to meow when it was alive and walk fence tops like Blondin]. | |
Halfway to Horror 4: Those who steal furs handle them as ‘pussies’ [OED]. | ||
Und. Nights 21: We opened up in thirty seconds dead and Fanlight led the way straight to the pussies. [Ibid.] 195: When Messrs Schwartz’ pussy-shop was screwed he was safely locked up. | ||
Inside the C.I.D. 35: He went on: ‘There’s a load of ‘pussies’ (furs) in the fourth shed in the alley’. | ||
Signs of Crime 198: Pussies Furs. | ||
Lowspeak. |
10. a male homosexual; or a man judged to be or teased as being so.
[ | Ade’s Fables 85: Father came in and took one look and said: ‘Not for Mine! I won’t stand for any Puss Willow being grafted on to our Family Tree.’ His name was Kenneth [...] it was rumored that he put oil on his Eye-Brows and rubbed Perfumery on the backs of his Hands]. | ‘The New Fable of the Father Who Jumped In’ in|
Amer. Thes. Sl. | ||
Criminal Sl. (rev. edn) 185: pussy An effeminate boy. | ||
On the Yard (2002) 56: ‘See the sweet little bull?’ an anonymous voice asked [...] ‘Pussy on the gun rail,’ another voice called. | ||
If I Die in a Combat Zone (1980) 49: ‘A couple of college pussies [...] Out behind them barracks hiding from everyone and making some love, huh?’ [...] ‘College puss almost ain’t enough for good fuckin’.’. | ||
Way Past Cool 81: Somebody dint know you, figure you maybe for a puss. |
11. (also puss) a coward, a weakling, with an implication of homosexuality.
‘Death Row’ in Life (1976) 120: Jim turned stone pussy and screamed and wailed. | et al.||
Tattoo the Wicked Cross (1981) 208: Beat on the punk, / knock him around, / bloody him up, / make him bawl like a broke-dick-dog, / like pussy, / punk-punk-punk. | ||
Carlito’s Way 32: He screamed like a pussy. | ||
Hard Candy (1990) 152: A pussy in his heart. He ain’t got the stones. | ||
[perfomance] How much do you smoke a day, dude? [...] Pack an’ a half. You little puss. | ||
Rivethead (1992) 102: The crowd was screeching for a kill. ‘Hit him with your purse, you pussy!’ shouted one fine American. | ||
Indep. on Sun. Real Life 7 Nov. 5: My wife misses the point [...] preferring to believe it stems from my being, to use one of her adopted Americanisms, ‘a pussy’. | ||
Hip-Hop Connection Jan./Feb. 47: When you go to war you don’t necessarily have to win but you don’t want to be considered a pussy. | ||
Turning Angel 158: Chris [...] kept calling Jimmy a pussy. | ||
Dirty South 1: Before all you know-it-all pussies start thinking that this is the story of some young black guy [...] you’re wrong. | ||
Running the Books 329: A man must marry, or he’s a pussy [...] if the man doesn’t have extramarital affairs, he’s a pussy. | ||
Tales of the Honey Badger [ebook] Lions [...] Nothing but big pussies when faced with a honey badger. | ||
Crongton Knights 6: ‘Why are you scared of them pussies?’. | ||
Headland [ebook] Maybe he should stop being such a pussy. | ||
Lives Laid Away [ebook] ‘Awnings are for pussies,’ Tomás said. ‘We’re Mexican! We don’t need no stinkin’ awning!’. | ||
What They Was 14: And Bloogz says you ain’t getting no money pussy, do what you gotta do . | ||
Squeeze Me 223: He’d look like a pussy for fleeing to Washington. |
12. (gay) the anus, i.e. a play on sense 1.
Get Your Ass in the Water (1974) 206: Another agent sold his pussy for forty-four sticks, / he smoked like a madman and soon got his kick. | ||
Giveadamn Brown (1997) 45: ‘I’m going to put the hottest piece of lead up your funky pussy you ever enjoyed’. | ||
Faggots 153: Jam that nigger stick into my pussy muff. | ||
(con. 1940s) Hold Tight (1990) 189: If it’s just pussy you want, forget it. | ||
Big Shots 154: Kip’ll find it too hard, getting five old geezers a week to stuff some cash up his pussy. | ||
Oz ser. 3 ep. 2 [TV script] Cyril [...] why don’t you give us some of that sweet pussy I’ve been hearing about. | ‘Napoleon's Boney Parts’||
Boy from County Hell : ‘Ora did ten in Nasty-Toe-Cheese for stat rape [...] Traded ink for young pussy’. |
13. cowardice.
Airtight Willie and Me 40: ‘Ain’t you leery?’ I said stoutly, ‘I’m not into pussy, Sugar Pie.’. |
14. in fig. use of sense 1, the ‘real thing’, i.e. as opposed to masturbation.
(con. 1967) Welcome to Vietnam (1989) 25: Long-range rifle fire is jacking off. Real close is pussy. |
15. a trans gender woman who passes satisfactorily as cis gender.
www.reddit.com/r/SRSDiscussion/comments/371azf/gay_slang_and_gender_slurs/ 🌐 If a trans gender woman passes well for a cis gender woman [...] you might say she’s ‘fish’ (referring to the smell of a woman's vagina!) or ‘pussy’. |
16. see puss n.1 (1)
In derivatives
effeminate.
O is for Outlaw (2000) 303: Hardly any chest hair. Kind of pussyfied in that regard. | ||
Back to the Dirt 101: ‘For a big wad of a human you sure are pussified’. |
In compounds
(Aus. prison) an inmate who coluntarily or otherwise adapts the role of a passive lesbian while in prison.
Deathdeal [ebook] ‘Are you okay for the time being?’ [...] ‘I’m not prison pussy, if that’s what you’re thinking’. |
(US) cowardly, weak.
hipslang.com 🌐 Pussy-ass white boy on the right! Give this honkee a shirt. |
(US black) money.
Vulture (1996) 14: The crapshooters [...] risked their hard-earned pussy-bait on a flick of the wrist. |
(US) a man who is obsessed with sex and seduction.
🎵 on Tarantula [album] Callin all cars, callin all cars / Be on the look out for a pussy vandalism. Over / A pussy bandit / Suspect is known in many states for dickin yo woman. | ‘Pussy Crook’
1. a passive male homosexual, a catamite.
Joint (1972) 45: They were known as pussyboys, galboys, fuckboys, and all had taken girls’ names like Betty, Fifi, Dotty, etc., and were universally referred to as ‘she’ and her’. | Ex Post Facto in||
Scholar 292: I feel say it’s time for pussy bwoy Pitt to get robbed innit? | ||
Right As Rain 311: That what you gonna do, pussy-boy? Just walk away? |
2. a general insult, implying cowardice or homosexuality.
Campus Sl. Nov. 7: pussy boy – wimp. | ||
College Sl. Research Project (Cal. State Poly. Uni., Pomona) 🌐 Pussy-boy (noun) Someone who is weak either physically or mentally or is a coward. | ||
Pigeon English 57: All I could hear was their laughing [...] 'Pussy boy!’. | ||
🎵 If we get the drop pussy boy better move out. | ‘Look Like You’||
Headland [ebook] ‘Sorry, pussyboy, did I wake you?’. |
(W.I.) a male sexual athlete.
Official Dancehall Dict. 42: Pussy-bully a male who is very sexually active; sex enthusiast. |
1. (US Und.) a male homosexual.
Criminal Sl. (rev. edn). |
2. thus, an effeminate whipping boy.
Down These Mean Streets (1970) 191: Unless you’re willing to kill at the exact moment you have to, you’ll be a pussy bumper for the rest of your life. |
3. a lesbian [bumper n.7 ].
DAUL 36/2: Bumper (or Pussy-bumper). A moral eccentric in sex relations with women; a male oral copulator whose degeneracy extends only to women. | et al.||
Queens’ Vernacular. |
(US Und.) the hiring of a prostitute.
Wire ser. 5 ep. 1 [TV script] ‘Pussy call.’ ‘Just glad to know Marloe has a hobby.’. | ‘More with Less’
see separate entries.
1. (W.I./UK black) a general pej., a coward, an informer; also as general abusive oath.
City of Spades (1964) 98: ‘You ras-clot man — you’s wasted.’ ‘These bumble-clotmen — these pussy-clots.’. | ||
Catch a Fire 75: Mr gone now, ya fockin’ bloody pussy clot! | ||
We Shall Not Die 65: Wha’ di pussy claat goin’ on here? Take di fuckin’ gun out of mi neck, man! | ||
Way Past Cool 18: ‘Pussy clot!’ hissed Curtis. | ||
Ruthless 219: A youth [...] breaks off from the conversation to beckon a passing higgler. ‘Eh, bwoy! Eh, eh pussyclaat!’. | ||
Scholar 255: Ey yuh lickle pussyclaat. | ||
Pigeon English 13: Chevon Brown: Pussy clart. Two punches. |
2. attrib. use of sense 1.
Catch a Fire 252: Ta fockin’ raas wit’ dis bullrush, pussy clot double–billin’! | ||
We Shall Not Die 133: Wi reach too far wid dis for any pussyclaat babylon come aroun’ now. | ||
White Talk Black Talk 183: You fockin’ pussyclaht machine nah! | ||
Deadmeat 75: fuck yu moni. Ah don’t need dis pusyclatt shit. |
(orig. US) a cunnilinguist.
Merry Month of May (2004) 55: He had been a dedicated pussy-eater since the very first time he had indulged the pastime. | ||
Tattoo of a Naked Lady 75: You’re the best pussy-eater in West Tarwater! | ||
Who’s Your Daddy? 235: He wasn’t the best pussy eater in either world but it wasn’t for lack of effort. | ||
Dead Man’s Trousers [27]: He idly wonders if Mikey is a pussy eater, whether he goes south on rag week, and if he brushes his teeth after. |
1. (orig. US) cunnilingus, both by lesbian women or heterosexual men.
Runnin’ Down Some Lines 155: I wash good! But I jus’ don’ feel right ’bout no pussy-eatin’. | ||
Night Dogs 96: ‘Some pussy eating going on in here, then? Cunnilingus? Some anal intercourse?’. | ||
A Woman Who... 113: [of women] Some of my best friends are lesbians. As for pussy-eating, you’ll have to take my word for it. | ||
How to Be Her Best Lover Ever 98: Pussy eating comes late in the sexual intercourse game. |
2. attrib. use of sense 1.
Sacred Heart 65: But the Commissioner was going to be there, the Archbishop, maybe even that pussy-eating Mayor. |
a weakling, a coward.
‘Suicide Chump’ in ThugLit July [ebook] ‘Cause even you should be able to do better. Come on, pussyfart’. |
see separate entries.
see fur n. (1)
(US) the world of prostitution.
Black Players 34: The selling of sexual favors by women is often called the pussy game (or sometimes just The Game) and is conceived to be of several levels. |
(Can. tramp) a hand.
(con. 1920s) Legs 112: He grabbed me with his big pussy glommers, picked me up like I was a five-year-old. |
In compounds
1. the female pubic hair.
in Erotic Muse (1992) 95–6: ’Twas the gath’ring o’ the clans, / And all the Scots were there, / A-skirlin’ on their bagpipes, / And strokin’ pussy hair. | ||
(con. 1949) True Confessions (1979) 66: A pair of panties [...] With a blond pussy hair in it. | ||
Man-of-Words in the West Indies 68: When the pepper tree begin to bear / It burn off all of Jennifer’ pussy hair. |
2. see cunt hair under cunt n.
1. the vagina.
in | Dozens 8: I remember when your mama didn’t have no stove. / She cooked flapjacks on her pussy hole.||
Runnin’ Down Some Lines 31: Your momma’s so black you can’t find her pussy hole in the dark. | ||
🎵 I clown on hoes to leave their pussyhole frownin. | ‘976-Bun B’||
Ruthless 192: Someone in the crowd didn’t like it, and they fling a bottle on him [...] He said: ‘Pussyhole [female sex organ], fling another bottle again and I will shot ounu down right now.’. | ||
Keisha the Sket (2021) 95: Fuck d ‘feelin lyk a pussy hole flex’. |
2. a general term of abuse, i.e. cunt n. (4)
Blood Posse 322: Those pussy holes are really gonna get it. | ||
Deadmeat 259: ‘Fuck dem pussy ’oles,’ said Froggy, looking at the cowboys. | ||
Dirty South 99: I’m just kinda wondering why you linked him in the first place. He’s a pussy-hole. | ||
Jamaica Patwah 24 Sept. 🌐 ‘Pussyhole, go suck yuh mada’ = ‘Motherfucker, go fuck yourself’. | ||
🎵 Tell a pussyhole look sharp, fix up. | ‘Lyrics’||
What They Was 134: You fucking pussyole go suck your mum. |
3. attrib. use of sense 2.
(con. 1981) East of Acre Lane 114: Friggin’ pussy’ole beast dem, he cursed inwardly. | ||
Dirty South 182: Just wanna duppy one of them. The pussyhole leader. | ||
Guardian 8 Aug. 🌐 We don’t need pussyhole feds to run the streets and put our brothers in jail so tool up. |
a man who is obsessed with the pursuit of sex.
Carlito’s Way 7: I was a big pussy-hound. | ||
Lowspeak. | ||
(con. 1970s) King Suckerman (1998) 169: It would be just like a pussy hound like you to pick out a tube top. | ||
Boy from County Hell 161: The pastor was a pussy hound, with the white sheep of his flock and the staff. |
vaginal secretions.
Farm (1968) 158: I began to think [...] how my hips would move against her and me upfront stir her pussy-liquids. | ||
Gardener Got Her n.p.: Lucy screamed with pleasure and soaked his face with sizzling pussy juice. | ||
Planet Sex Stories 🌐 I reached up and touched Jolene’s cunt and it was gushing plenty of pussy juice. | ‘Burning Down the House’
(US) a general insult, lit. a cunnilinguist.
Why Are We in Vietnam? (1970) 123: You ain’t seen the day you was strong enough to unzip it out of your pants around me, pussy kisser. |
(US) a general term of abuse, lit. a cunnilinguist; thus pussylick adj.
One to Count Cadence (1987) 90: Maybe I’ll [...] bust his pussylick face for him. | ||
Thief 246: I need you for moral support, you old pussy-lapper, you! | ||
(con. 1964–8) Cold Six Thousand 647: Sirhan called him a ‘pussylicker.’ Sirhan called him a ‘vampire Jew’. |
see under -magnet sfx
(US) an ostensible massage parlor where prostitution occurs.
Show Business Laid Bare 134: [A]round 1970 we began hearing of the body-rub dives, the massage parlors, the pussy palaces. |
1. (US) a hotel used by ‘short-time’ prostitutes to entertain clients.
Show Business Laid Bare 134: [T]hen ‘the pussy parlor’ had emerged. The GIs, ‘the servicemen,’the foreign seamen, had found plenty of prostitutes on Eighth Avenue in the late ’60s. The girls enticed them into mean-looking little hotels. |
2. (US) a striptease club.
Skin Tight 192: It was your idea to meet at this pussy parlor. |
a very short miniskirt.
Coventry Eve. Teleg. 10 Apr. 28/3: Pussy Pelmet [i.e. a race horse] got home by two lengths at Doncaster on the opening day of the season. | ||
Observer 27 Aug. n.p.: ‘Newest name for microskirt is pussy-pelmet, according to a Jamican girl-friend’. | ||
Lowspeak. | ||
Mad Cows 67: Wearing a knicker-skimming miniskirt — what Gillian called a pussy-pelmet — and white stilettoes. | ||
Unforgiven 164: The girl, who is wearing nothing but a pussy pelmet and crop top. |
(US) a pornographic photograph of a woman.
(con. 1949) True Confessions (1979) 173: ‘You pimp for Lois Fazenda?’ [...] ‘Pussy pictures, that’s all I did with her.’. |
(US police/Und.) the Vice Squad, esp. those members who deal with prostitutes.
Friends of Eddie Coyle 144: ‘Why the hell don’t you guys stop chasing around bothering people that’re minding their own business there, and stop some of that crap that's coming in?’ ‘Hey [. . .], you're not getting me on the pussy posse’. | ||
Queens’ Vernacular 206: the vice squad [...] Syn: pussy patrol. | ||
Smack Man (1991) 34: Never got the clap, never got pregnant. Hardly ever got rounded up by the pussy posse. | ||
Fort Apache, The Bronx 176: ‘Let’s go on the pussy posse, first,’ Corelli said. They drove over to the Hunts Point market where at least twenty or thirty hookers could be found every day. | ||
On the Stroll 125: Down the street rolled the plain green Chevy Prince knew as the wheels of the pussy posse. | ||
Lowspeak. |
(W.I.) shorts so tight they outline the genital area.
Official Dancehall Dict. 42: Pussy-printer form-hugging shorts. Type of shorts worn so tight it actually shows off the shape of the pubic area. |
(US) a gynaecologist.
Glitter Dome (1982) 261: All the doctors around here’re pussy probers, seems to me. |
(US gay) a heterosexual.
Queens’ Vernacular. |
(US) a lesbian.
5000 Adult Sex Words and Phrases 169: pussy queer (Vulg.) A lesbian. | ||
Maledicta VI:1+2 (Summer/Winter) 132: Pussy queer or queen. |
obsessed by sex.
(con. 1920s) Legs 197: As soon as I get over being pussy-struck I’ll be long gone. |
a cunnilinguist.
Blood Posse 229: ‘Hey, you a pussy sucker,’ I cursed [...] ‘Love it, too [...] That juice just dribbling down your face.’. |
(orig. US black) a moustache.
Down These Mean Streets (1970) 138: ‘You think I oughtta shave my pussy tickler? It don’t look too good in the picture.’ ‘What mustache you talkin’ about?’. | ||
Alice in La-La Land (1999) 53: Very pretty, very Valentino [...] Little pussy tickler on his lip. | ||
King of the Streets (1999) 242: He had a pussy tickler on his top lip. |
(orig. US) of a woman, to dominate one’s husband or partner.
Mr Blue 248: Flip had ‘pussy-whipped’ him, which she could do if any woman ever could. | ||
Chicken (2003) 173: Cum awn by when you done gittin’ pussy-whipped. | ||
On the Bro’d 44: Derek is getting all pussywhipped by these chicks. |
1. (orig. US) dominated by a woman, esp. a wife or girlfriend.
Current Sl. I:1 4/1: Pussy whipped A male dominated by a female. | ||
On the Yard (2002) 342: Hopefulness continued to come to him like some beautiful bitch who had him pussy whipped. | ||
CUSS 136: Hen whipped [...]. [Ibid.] 167: P.W.’ed / Pussywhipped / Be excessively submissive to your girl friend. | et al.||
Digger’s Game (1981) 127: Brennan’s pussy-whipped [...] Afraid his wife’s gonna find out. | ||
Christine 378: His rotten shitting old man who was so fucking pussywhipped. | ||
Llama Parlour 137: She’s a bitch, basically. And my father is pussy-whipped. | ||
Campus Sl. Apr. 4: p-whipped – pussy whipped. | ||
Guardian Weekend 15 Jan. 3: You’re a worthless, pussy-whipped wuss. | ||
Mystery Bay Blues 12: Despite all Edwin’s machismo and style, he was more than a little pussy whipped. | ||
PS, I Scored the Bridesmaids 156: This goy is totally pussy-whipped. | ||
Life 201: Big mama fear [...] Which didn’t mean they were soft or pussy whipped. It was the respect for their mothers. | ||
‘Going in Style’ in ThugLit Feb. [ebook] Not that his boy—his only boy—wasn’t complicit in a pussy-whipped sort of way. |
2. (US black/campus) besotted with, infatuated by.
Runnin’ Down Some Lines 126: Expressions like pussy-whipped [...] mean to be deeply infatuated or in love with another. | ||
Campus Sl. Nov. 4: pussy-whipped – dating only one girl: You don’t party like you used to. You must be pussy-whipped. | ||
Widespread Panic 168: ‘Freddy’s pussy-whipped, and he’s got this thing for dead chicks’. |
3. in non-marital contexts, subservient.
Wire ser. 2 ep. 1 [TV script] You’re fuckin’ whipped. Pussy-whipped agin’ an inch of your life. | ‘Ebb Tide’||
(con. 1962) Enchanters 202: He’s a stooge for a pussy-whipped crooner. |
In phrases
1. (gay) of male homosexuals or lesbians, to have sexual intercourse.
Criminal Sl. (rev. edn) 195: pussy bumping Sexual variance. | ||
Joint (1972) 221: I might have known it. A couple of faggots bumpin’ pussies. | letter 7 Sept. in||
On the Yard (2002) 300: What would we [i.e. two homosexuals] do — bump pussies? | ||
Fort Apache, The Bronx 191101: Bumpin’ pussy and gettin’ high, huh, Charlotte. | ||
(con. 1950s) My Lives 110: ‘And do what together? [...] Two big girls? [i.e. male homosexuals] Bump pussies?’. |
2. of male homosexuals, to find themselves too similar in their sexual preferences (e.g. both passive or both active) to have satisfactory sex.
City of Night 289: The lay-est thing in the world a queen wants is to make it with what turns out to be huh sistuh [...] It’s exaayctly lak bumpin pussies. | ||
Queens’ Vernacular 38: bumping pussies the embarassing of two homosexual men who find themselves too passive, active, or in other ways too similar to create a sexual situation. |
(US black) of a woman, to flaunt oneself sexually.
Jailhouse Jargon and Street Sl. [unpub. ms.]. |
of a woman, to have sexual intercourse.
Dict. of the Turf, the Ring, the Chase, etc. 22: ’Tis quite the contrary when [a lady] ‘feeds her pussey-cat.’ Then it is the secrets are put in the sack . | ||
Sl. and Its Analogues. | ||
Vocabula Amatoria (1966) 171: Laisser aller (se). To copulate; ‘to feed or trot out one’s pussy’. | ||
Maledicta IV:2 (Winter) 197: Those derived from the words for the penis or vulva include to [...] trot out one’s pussy [...] When Eblis has caused a moisture to flow, […] she is said to have fed her pussy. |
(US black) to interfere with a rival, a companion’s efforts at seducing a woman.
Runnin’ Down Some Lines 238: fuck up (one’s) pussy See cock block. |
(US/Aus.) of a man, to have sexual intercourse.
Big Smoke 164: You do that again and you won’t get any pussy for I don’t know how long. | ||
Runnin’ Down Some Lines 240: get some [...] pussy Engage in sexual intercourse. |
of a woman, to have sexual intercourse.
Chili 95: I hope she ain’t giving up too much pussy. | ||
Corruption Officer [ebk] cap. 10: Some of his boys have gotten chick C.O.s to bring them in weed, razors and all sorts of things. Some even gave up the pussy. |
(US) to act in a cowardly manner.
Border [ebook] ‘You chickening out on me? [...] Going pussy?’. |
see under peddle v.
(US black) to act weakly and to suffer as a result.
Giveadamn Brown (1997) 79: [H] was not going to play too much pussy for this new Harry Brown. | ||
🌐 Play pussy and get fucked like a virgin in the projects / if i need my beef handle, I got plenty of prospects. | ‘FFA Battle...join in’ 17 Sept. on VBHeaven Freestyle Forum
of a woman, to masturbate.
AdultFriendFinder.com Forum ‘Cybersex...cheating or not?’ 🌐 I give him my unpublished number and we go at it. He tells me what he wants me to do to him and he can hear me poke my pussy with my various ‘toys’. |
to work as a prostitute.
🎵 For the girls popping pussy, and the boys with the blow / Cadillac’ers and flat-backers. | ‘Trill Niggaz Don’t Die’
(US prison) sardines sold in a can at a prison commissary.
Jailhouse Jargon and Street Sl. [unpub. ms.]. |
(orig. US) to act in a cowardly manner, to give up under pressure; to distance oneself.
Pimp 289: I’m not going to pussy out [...] I could do a month in here. | ||
Ladies’ Man (1985) 189: I wanted to ask her to come back with me right then, but I pussied out. | ||
(con. 1967) Lords of Discipline 369: Don’t pussy out on us now. | ||
Six Out Seven (1994) 491: Prince Cheetah wasn’t going to puss-out this time! | ||
Curvy Lovebox 146: You’re just pussyin’ out. | ||
Indep. Rev. 8 Mar. 7: Are you going to do it – or pussy out? | ||
Dirty South 188: Should I follow them? [...] Of course I should track their black asses! You think Noel would have pussied out. | ||
Pigeon English 55: Don’t try and pussy out. You can’t [...] not do the dare. | ||
On the Bro’d 40: This was when Chaz Kerry started pussing out on our crew. | ||
Crongton Knights 7: ‘Then deal with your problem instead of pussying out’. | ||
Cherry 152: I was pretty sure I was about to die but it would have been lame if I’d pussied out, so I flicked the safety switch to burst and I didn’t think about it. |
(US black/teen) to sit in the middle of the back seat in a car.
Urban Black Argot 144: Ride Pussy / Punk / the Bitch’s Seat to ride in the front of the car between two other males. | ||
Runnin’ Down Some Lines 162: To ride pussy/punk/the bitch’s seat defines a manipulative ploy whereby a young man finds himself [...] forced to ride in a car ‘on the hump,’ where the woman is supposed to ride. |
to work as a prostitute.
Homeboy 4: Why not [...] sling pussy on Sunset Strip. |
(US black) of a woman, to have sexual intercourse.
[song title] Throw the P. | ||
Black Talk. |
SE in slang uses
In phrases
(Ulster) never.
Slanguage. |