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- Pussy (cat) vs cat - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
According to some soft sources, such as this yahoo answers question the term pussycat is a female cat, complementing the tom cat which is a male cat However, I can't find any dictionary that backs these claims, and some other sources even counter the claim as such, saying pussy(cat) is just the same as a cat
- How does pussy come to mean coward?
a Chiefly colloq A girl or woman exhibiting characteristics associated with a cat, esp sweetness or amiability Freq used as a pet name or as a term of endearment Cf puss n 1 3, pussycat n 3 c1557–65 in T Wright Songs Ballads (1860) lxxiv 209 Adew, my pretty pussy, Yow pynche me very nere
- meaning - Use of pussy as term of endearment - English Language . . .
In the daily BBC radio soap opera The Archers, the character Matt Crawford regularly called his partner Lilian, Pussycat It played its part in marking Crawford (who ended up in prison and then fleeing the country) as a spiv businessman lacking in tact and sophistication, also in defining Lilian as a woman so desperate for a male companion that
- Why are animal names used as vulgar slang for body parts?
Asking this question in strict propriety out of genuine curiosity, why is that in (American) English animal-related names are used for vulgar names for the private body parts? In fact, all of the
- single word requests - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
Looks like domestic short-haired cat and domestic long-haired cat are standard in American English Wikipedia: A domestic short-haired cat is a cat of mixed ancestry – thus not belonging to any particular recognized cat breed – possessing a coat of short fur
- nouns - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
Pussycat Sodapop Sumtotal Taperecord Tincan Admittedly, some of those would more often be written with a
- Hot Diggity . . . - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
The phrase "hot diggity dog!" dates to at least 1928, when Al Jolson was recorded saying "Hot diggity dog! Hot kitty! Hot pussycat! Didn't I tell you you'd love it?" after a performance of the tune "There's A Rainbow Around My Shoulder" There was also a song from 1956 called "Hot Diggity (Dog Ziggity Boom)" (same article)
- Can we omit the definite article, *the*, in front of two musical . . .
The second: Need we distribute articles evenly over two (or perhaps multiple) nouns when paired in conjunction or set in serial? The owl and pussycat shove off with an article each (plus honey, money, etc ) But had they been characters in a cloak and a dagger story, well--different story? The food and the drink? A game of a cat and a mouse?
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