pussycat

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Definitions (4)

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  1. noun A cat.
  2. noun Informal One who is regarded as easygoing, mild-mannered, or amiable.

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  • Bob played with the purring pussycat, rounded up the turtles and boiled them out of their shells. —  F ;SF; - vol 100 issue 02 - February 2001
  • “He shows no mercy He's a pussycat,” Ives countered. —  EQMM,August2007
  • He's really a big pussycat, but all he has to do is say my name in that certain tone of voice, and I'm totally helpless, space putty in his hands. —  SeriasStarWarrior.HTML
  • Thus the tiger has converted the man, in his own mind, to a state as nerveless as the pussycat's. —  Autobiography of a Yogi
  • How often I have done just that I was quite willing to believe that the titan before me was able to perform the tiger-pussycat metamorphosis. —  Autobiography of a Yogi
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