Definitions

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  • verb slang To make weak and effeminate.

Etymologies

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pussy + -ify

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Examples

  • Cut out the broccoli florets, though, they pussify the whole thing.

    Hands Off: From "Do Me" to "Do It For Me" BikeSnobNYC 2010

  • Even the NHL has taken steps to remove violence from the game, but they can't pussify it too much, else that savage white redneck audience would get turned off …

    Dime Magazine (dimemag.com) : Daily NBA News, NBA Trades, NBA Rumors, Basketball Videos, Sneakers 2010

  • Given the mission of the Armed Forces is to "kill in mass quantity" and not better define the roles of the sexes to match civilian traditions, such distractions, pardon the pun, pussify the men who should be about the business of warfare.

    BlogWonks 2009

  • I will call this continental population plan "Population Type E" -- breed out the future patriots, and pussify the remaining ones.

    henrymakow.com 2009

  • Now, for those who haven't seen this piece of shit, I'm going to go over it, from memory, because it epitomizes everything I hate about the campaign to pussify men.

    The Reluctant Optimist 2008

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  • A verb denoting turning a person or a thing into an effeminate pussy.

    "Joe used to be a real man before he got married, but his shrew of a wife completely pussified him." - renumeratedfrog, 2008

    August 24, 2008

  • Pussies are in fact muscular and strong. Just think what they have to put up with! Scrotum is a much better insult. They're thin, weak, and easily shrivel up under pressure. Calling something a pussy should be a compliment!

    August 24, 2008

  • Get your mind out of the gutter. I wasn't talking about that kind of pussy. =O.O=

    August 24, 2008

  • Yes you were. Pussy as an insult is metaphorical, referring to the literal idiomatic meaning of female genitalia.

    August 24, 2008

  • I like the idea of turning pussy on its head, making it a compliment and a metaphor for strength.

    "By the time Joe finished SEAL training, he was a real pussy. The guy could bench 240!"

    August 24, 2008

  • Thanks, Shevek, you saved me the trouble. :)

    I do the same thing, John, with a slightly different word:

    Joe's a Navy SEAL now! He's got a huge pair of ovaries, that's for damn sure.

    August 24, 2008

  • I absolutely agree, c_b and John. Let's all start celebrating womanly words and phrases! Instead of saying, "That'll put hair on your chest!" we could say, "That'll give you breasts!" This could be a truly ovular discussion.

    August 24, 2008

  • Dude, I completely nailed my drum solo the other day. I am massively pussified. *thumping chest and yodeling*

    August 24, 2008

  • c_b, I lost you at "yodeling". :-P

    August 25, 2008

  • Is there a better verb for that thing Tarzan does?

    August 25, 2008

  • Swingsthroughtreesinunderpants?

    August 25, 2008

  • Well, yeah. But I mean that noise Tarzan makes.

    August 25, 2008

  • Warble?

    August 25, 2008

  • Uh, no. Apparently it's just called a Tarzan yell.

    August 25, 2008

  • I have always understood Tarzan to ululate.

    August 25, 2008

  • I love that Wikipedia link, though, because it has the yell written out as an actual musical score. Hee! Apparently it's been copyrighted. And if you try to sing it, you'll come out with just the right yell. Ululating sounds a bit different, IMHO.

    August 25, 2008

  • I thought I saw in the article that it's not in fact eligible for copyright.

    August 25, 2008

  • Well, okay--must've not read it carefully enough--but I think it's hilarious that someone wrote it out in a music staff. :)

    August 25, 2008

  • When the French first landed on Australian soil they attempted (in a kind of early "ethnomusicology") to notate the songs and "war cries" of the Aborigines, including the famous cooee. I've seen the results, beautifully presented in music copperplate, with the words written in a sort of French phonology, e.g. "couille" for cooee. The Australian composer Peter Sculthorpe tells a funny story about perfecting his pronunciation for a presentation about all this to a French audience. The nice librarian at the embassy who was helping him failed to mention that "couilles" in fact means balls.

    August 26, 2008

  • and what about pussywhipped?

    August 28, 2008

  • I'm with rolig. "Grow a pair of ovaries." "That'll fertilise your eggs!"

    August 29, 2008

  • I heard an interview with him about that on RN, frindley. It was funny as all get-out.

    November 25, 2008