Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. (orig. US black) the vagina; by metonymy, a woman [ext. pussy n. (1)].

1890–1904		Farmer & Henley Sl. and Its Analogues.
c.1900		Actionable Offenses Young Cylinder D (2007) [cylinder recording] One day while he was passing her, and by her side he sat, / He reached beneath her underclothes and caught her pussy-cat.
c.1904		A. Crowley Snowdrops from a Curate’s Garden 27: With a bound the brute drove his sledge-hammer into her unresisting pussycat.
c.1949		in E. Cray Erotic Muse (1992) 184: Oh, the ring-dang-doo, now what is that? / It’s big and round like a pussy cat, / Covered with fur and split in two. / That’s what they call the ring-dang-doo.
1956		in E. Cray Erotic Muse (1992) 183: Oh, the ring-a-rang-roo, now what is that? / It’s soft and round like a pussy cat. / It’s got a hole in the middle and split in two, / And that’s what they call the ring-a-rang-roo.
1966		(con. 1948–52) L. Thomas Virgin Soldiers 40: He wants to buy pussy cat. But I not sell it.
1970		‘Troy Conway’ Cunning Linguist (1973) 87: With each push, I smacked that wondrous pussy cat a good foot or two into the air.
1980		E. Folb Runnin’ Down Some Lines 250: pussycat Vagina.
1991		W.T. Vollmann Whores for Gloria 76: There’s some guy in there looking at you [...] thinking wow what a peculiarly pretty little pussycat if only I could screw her inscrutable I’d have it made.
2007		UGK ‘Int’l Player’s Anthem’ 🎵 It makes no sense, I know crazy / Give up all this pussy cat that’s in my lap.

2. a weak or at least amiable and passive person [ext. pussy n. (11)].

1914		W.L. George Making of an Englishman III 229: Neville was a ‘pussy-cat,’ meek, kindly and pretty.
1955		L.F. Engler ‘Gloss. Air Force Sl.’ in AS XXX:2 119: PUSSY CAT, n. A pilot who is overcautious, fearful, or reluctant.
1978		P. Hamill Dirty Laundry 15: They are pussycats with their mothers and take it out on their girlfriends.
1986		N.Y. Daily News 30 Apr. n.p.: The problem is, the reporters aren’t very fearsome. They’re four pussycats trying to score in the world of ‘60 Minutes’ [R].
1992		M. Coleman Fatty 150: ‘Left winger: Pussycat, can’t play. Right winger: Prettyboy, can’t play’.
1996		J. Cameron It Was An Accident 60: That how you heard it Nicky too or you heard them’s all pussycats these days them Yardies?
1999		P. Temple Black Tide (2012) [ebook] Two of these Tiger girls [i.e. footballers] get in front of Bill [...] and these pussycats they’re buggerin about.
2000		Indep. on Sun. Culture 21 May 8: ‘I’m a pussycat,’ she says, ‘easy-peasy to work with.’.
2004		A. Kleinzahler Cutty, One Rock (2005) 18: Frankie’s a pussycat; he couldn’t hurt a fly.