pussyfoot adj.
1. cowardly, weak; general term of abuse.
![]() | Day Book (Chicago) 15 Aug. 25: The pussy-foot News is throwing a fit. | |
![]() | Day Book (Chicago) 13 May 22: Respectable women can’t go about their shopping without being annoyed by some pussy-footed masher. | |
![]() | Beef, Iron and Wine (1917) 33: Kelly and Kiernan, the Chief’s front office pussy-foot stars. | ‘Charlie the Wolf’ in|
![]() | Tropic of Capricorn (1964) 215: The pure thought such as Immanuel Pussyfoot Kant gave us and which only a ventriloquist’s dummy could reproduce. | |
![]() | If... 16 Feb. in If Files (1997) 55: It’s Poossyfoot Paisley, Minister of Lurve in the Blair Revolution!! |
2. teetotal.
![]() | Dundee Courier 31 July 3/1: [headline] The ‘Pussyfoot’ Campaign. | |
![]() | Churchill (2002) 356: F.E. has gone absolute Pussyfoot for a year. He drinks cider and ginger pop and looks ten years younger. | letter 9 Feb. in Jenkins