2007 November 17, Liz Jones, “Are cats the new dogs?”, inThe Independent:
And although, as someone recently said to me, they are not "designer" (she had expected mypussies to be expensive, with a pedigree), to me my cats are the most beautiful in the world.
There's a lot of disagreement about where that word came from.Pussy is actually a diminutive ofpusillanimous, meaning cowardly. Although maybe the origin doesn't matter, since everyone equates it with the female anatomy anyway?
The teachers are not there to help you. Most of them are still freelancers and the last thing they want is more competition. They are there because they need a steady paycheck and they hope to score somepussy!
You ought to hear some of the docs that are the sweetest oldpussies with their patients—the way they bawl out the nurses. But labs—they seem sort of real. I don't suppose you can bluff a bacteria—what is it?—bacterium?
This town is like a great bigpussy just waiting to get fucked!
2007 November 26, Matt Keating, “Do everyone a favour and don't bring your cold to work”, inThe Guardian[1], archived fromthe original on6 October 2014:
I couldn't carry the burden of shame engendered by the bully-boy advertising of "max-strength" cold and flu remedies, the obvious subtext of which is "Get to work, youpussy."
‘I hope you two have been mewed in with that oldpussy long enough. While you’ve been tittle-tattling I’ve been doing, — listen to what this bobby’s got to say.’
2010 June 3, Jojo Moyes, “Why love letters are better left unread”, inThe Telegraph:
If Lloyd George’s endearments to mistress Frances Stevenson – “My darlingPussy. You might phone… on Friday if you can come. Don’t let Hankey see you” – had been made similarly public, would he have maintained his own reputation as a towering statesman?
