pussy adj.2
1. easy, undemanding (the inference being not worthy of a ‘real man’).
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | Shorty McCabe 30: He was a pussy, bald-headed little duffer, this citizen chap, and not bein’ used to blockin’ runs he goes down underneath. | |
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | ‘Over There’ with the Australians 60: The boxing and wrestling matches always held the crowd [...] These were no ‘pussy’ shows, for we had some professionals among us. | |
| (con. early 1950s) Valhalla 255: That’s a pussy good idea! | |
| About Face (1991) 91: Infantrymen were fighters, not writers [...] we didn’t have time for such ‘pussy’ stuff. | |
| Rivethead (1992) 35: Hell, these jobs they gave us are pussy detail [...] we’ll be sittin’ on our asses half the time while bringin’ home three or four bills a week. |
2. (orig. US) scared, cowardly.
| et al. CUSS. | |
| Body Shop 27: Why don’t they put their pussy behinds down there in the bush for one rainy night. | |
| Great Santini (1977) 438: Junior, did I ever tell you that you were a pussy football player? | |
| It (1987) 36: Avarino, who could almost read this hairbag’s pussy little mind, suspected he was thinking about his stepfather again. | |
| (con. 1985–90) In Search of Respect 88: That nigga’ was talking shit for a long time, about how we pussy. | |
| ‘Legs’ Oz ser. 3 ep. 3 [TV script] ‘You didn’t kill Metzger?’ ‘No. How could a little pussy bitch like me hurt anyone?’. | |
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | Guardian Guide 5–11 Feb. 8: Sorry-ass niggaz; pussy niggaz; white niggaz. | |
| Dirty South 102: I ain’t gonna waste my energy on pussy non-believers. | |
| Rough Riders 212: You’re a pussy lawyer, huh? [...] That figures. | |
 | ‘Recipe’ 🎵 Yeah they thought that I was dead, I got nine lives / Pussy niggas want me dead, you had nine tries. | |
| Price You Pay 266: Jesus Fred is he crying? When you were recruiting your Demons did you like put an ad in Pussy Weekly or something? | |
| (con. 1991-94) City of Margins 38: Pussy move. Leaving the debt for him and his mother. |
3. effeminate, implying homosexuality.
| [ | | Coburg Leader (Vic.) 6 July 1/6: Dave stood at the door soliloquizing over the grammatical notice posted up in the passage, ‘Smoking and standing in this passage are prohibited.’ ‘Very pussy’ he ejaculates]. |
| Tattoo the Wicked Cross (1981) 85: Pussy was the dirtiest name a guy could be called. | |
| Come Monday Morning 58: Man he had a good strong face too not soft’n pussy like those faggots. | |
| Paco’s Story (1987) 11: Ice-cold raspberry daiquiris and vodka sours [...] pussy drinks, bartenders call them. | |
| Guardian Guide 5–11 Feb. 8: The fear is that blatant cross-hugging could end up earning you the same rep as that high-heeled, pussy-nigga version of Cliff Richard, Prince. | |
| Bug (Aus.) Aug. 🌐 Ghoul and Stewheart sprayed this skirt, sissy, pussy, sheila stuff – or whatever moniker you fancy – in the direction of the video ref’s box. | |
| ‘Swisha And Dosha’ 🎵 I keep a whole sip (whole sip), a whole clip (a whole clip) / in case these pussy niggaz wanna trip (uh!). | |
![[Scot]](/static/img/flags/sco.png "Scotland") | Young Team 43: ‘haw yooz, ya fuckin pussy bastards!’. |
4. (US) pertaining to sex; pornographic.
| New Centurions 45: ‘You hear a lot of pussy stories from policemen. I‘ve been wondering how true they are’. | |
| Last Toke 18: She got that dude ready to come all over the pussy money he done come out to spend. | |
| Sweet La-La Land (1999) 182: He had this bachelor party. All men except for the pussy act and twenty hookers. | |
| (con. 1964–8) Cold Six Thousand 598: He’d read these fucking pussy books and orbit. He said the fucking pictures were talking to him. |
5. female.
| Choirboys (1976) 108: I shoulda got suspicious when the pussy kiddy cop caught me in civvies and asked to let her snap a Polaroid a me. |
6. useless, insignificant.
| It (1987) 804: You don’t have to pick corn or go do some pussy job? | |
| Sweet La-La Land (1999) 168: This charge you want to put against Younger is pussy. | |
| ‘Misirlou’ in Pulp Ink [ebook] The black girl [...] said, ‘Fuck you, pussy punk!’. |