Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary📕
puss pōōs, n. a familiar name for a cat: a
hare, in sportsmen's language: a playful name for a child or a
girl.—ns.Puss′-clov′er, the rabbit's foot or
stone-clover; Puss′-gen′tleman, a dandy; Puss′-moth, a moth of the genus Cerura;
Puss′-tail, a common grass with
bristly spikes, belonging to the genus Setaria—also called
Foxtail; Puss′y, a dim. of
puss—also Puss′y-cat;
Puss′y-cat, the silky catkin of
various willows; Puss′y-will′ow, a common American
willow, Salix discolor, with silky spring catkins.—Puss
in the corner, a children's game in which the places are continually
being changed, while the player who is out tries to secure one of them.
[Dut. poes, puss; Ir. and Gael. pus, a cat.]
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