Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An old spelling of tuzzy.

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Examples

  • Or you can buy a silver bouquet holder (aka a tussy mussy) from a floral supply store

    ScrippsNews 2009

  • As I weed, gingerly avoiding turds, longing for a tussy-mussy to hold to my noses, I wonder at the mess.

    Garden Goddess for Hire 2010

  • We like to use lavender along with other secented flowers and plants when making tussy-mussies.

    tresser - French Word-A-Day 2008

  • We like to use lavender along with other secented flowers and plants when making tussy-mussies.

    tresser - French Word-A-Day 2008

  • A tussy mussy is another option, as is flowers in their hair.

    Weddings Valentine Style Diann Valentine 2006

  • Ever since I was a little boy she had talked to me about sex and her tussy, and would tell me to eat potatoes to put lead in my petzel.

    THE EXTRA MAN JONATHAN AMES 1998

  • Biorwik’s powlver and Uliv’s oils, unguents of cuticure, for the swarthy searchall’s face on her, with handewers and groinscrubbers and a carrycam to teaze her tussy out, the brown but combly,

    Finnegans Wake 2006

  • My great-aunt used witch hazel for all ailments, and “tussy” was her odd word for her genitals, though it could have been for the whole area, I’m not sure.

    THE EXTRA MAN JONATHAN AMES 1998

  • And she didn’t know it, of course, but I felt that by her saying panty she had acknowledged her sexuality to me: that underneath her blondness, her sweaters, her intelligence was a woman who was naked in the mornings, who rolled on pantyhose over smooth perfect legs all the way up to her tussy.

    THE EXTRA MAN JONATHAN AMES 1998

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