PUSSYCAT | Meaning, Definition In Cambridge English Dictionary

Meaning of pussycat in English pussycatnoun uk /ˈpʊs.i.kæt/ us /ˈpʊs.i.kæt/

pussycat noun (ANIMAL)

Add to word list Add to word list [ C ] child's word (also pussy) a cat: Look, Martha, a pussycat!   deepblue4you/E+/GettyImages Felines (cats)

• Abyssinian
• American bobtail
• American curl
• American shorthair
• American wirehair
• declaw
• Devon Rex
• farm cat
• felid
• feline
• Norwegian forest cat
• ocelot
• Oriental longhair
• Oriental shorthair
• panther
• snow leopard
• snowshoe
• Sphynx
• tiger
• tigress

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pussycat noun (PERSON)

[ C usually singular ] humorous someone who is surprisingly gentle: Mike likes to make out that he's tough, but he's a pussycat really. People having good qualities

• advertisement
• altruist
• angel
• beatify
• brick
• bunch
• gem
• hidden depths
• jewel
• mensch
• not be as black as you are painted idiom
• paragon
• poppet
• saint
• salt
• salt of the earth idiom
• softie
• sweetheart
• sweetie
• treasure

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Examples of pussycat

pussycat Manners, most notably, was not pleased with the plot and felt pussycats are not scary. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. They sit there, one hunched up spreading misery and gloom, eyes unblinking, the other wishing to claw like a pussycat at anything that he can grab hold of. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 You can run along now, pussycat. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. What is the pronunciation of pussycat?

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in Chinese (Traditional) 動物, 貓，貓咪, 人… See more in Chinese (Simplified) 动物, 猫，猫咪, 人… See more in Spanish gatito, Gatito, Bondadoso… See more in Portuguese gatinho, fofo… See more in Japanese in French in Turkish in Catalan in Dutch in Czech in Danish in Indonesian in Thai in Vietnamese in Polish in Swedish in Malay in German in Norwegian in Korean in Ukrainian in Italian ネコちゃん… See more minou, gentil, adorable… See more kedi, nazik ve kibar kimse, kedi gibi (kimse)… See more mix, gatet… See more katje, lieverd… See more kočička, milý člověk… See more missekat, nuttebasse, skat… See more anak kucing, orang yang lemah lembut… See more แมว, คนที่อ่อนโยนและใจดี… See more mèo cho trẻ em, hiền lành và tốt bụng… See more kotek, misiak, miła osoba… See more kisse, raring… See more kucing, manja… See more die Mieze, der Softie… See more pusekatt, snilling… See more 고양이, 야옹이… See more киця, приємна людина… See more micio, gattino, gentile… See more Need a translator?

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• pussy
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• pussycat bow, at pussy bow
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