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Pronunciation
Etymology
Reanalyzed from blends formed with pussy. The first -ussy term is often considered to be bussy (boy + pussy), with evidence for the term as early as 2004. However, the -ussy suffix arguably originates in March–April 2017, when nussy (nose + pussy), thrussy (throat + pussy), and thussy (they + pussy) were coined in quick succession and popularized on Tumblr. This was soon followed by the "one thicc bih" meme around May–June 2017, which led to a huge growth of novel -ussy terms. -ussy became more prominent in 2022, resulting in the suffix being chosen as the American Dialect Society's 2022 Word of the Year.
Meanings
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(Internet, humorous, morpheme) Denoting anything thought to resemble the female genitalia (the "pussy") in some way, often referring to the genitalia of non-human creatures, usually implying that the object in question is fuckable.
donutussy got me actin MANIC
2022 March 10, u/McToaster99, “She's here (technically they're here)”, in Reddit, r/OMORI, archived from the original on 06 Feb 2024:They're just gonna show his groundhog-ussy like that!!?
2024 February 2, @hang0utonclouds, Twitter, archived from the original on 06 Feb 2024:One example of this theme was from a video of a store clerk using the "-ussy" suffix slang to make a joke about the location of a barcode on the underside of a bag of dried prunes, dubbing it "the prunussy".
2022, Kuri Benitez, anonymous quotee, A Content Analysis of Queer Slang on Tik Tok^([sic]) (Student Research Submissions), Fredericksburg, V.I.: University of Mary Washington, archived from the original on 18 May 2023:Bug-ussy so good he made a Viltrumate^([sic]) change his ways
2023 November 30, u/delerio2, “In case you're wondering why the Insectussy was worth it”, in Reddit, r/Invincible, archived from the original on 06 Feb 2024:Not this fruitussy play on my tl
2021 September 23, @marbsworld, Twitter, archived from the original on 06 Feb 2024:Riffing off "bussy" (a portmanteau of "boy" and "pussy"), now everything is a cat or a cavity. A calzone is a pizzussy. A wine bottle has a winussy. Princess Fiona has an ogussy.
2022 January 26, Bethy Squires, “We Asked Linguists Why People Are Adding -Ussy to Every Word”, in Vulture, archived from the original on 02 Feb 2024:
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(Internet, broadly, humorous, morpheme) Combining with the phrase put one's whole pussy into, denoting an effort of a specified kind or theme.
It should came as no surprise that people on social media put their whole effortussy into the memes and jokes.
2023 January 8, Maggie Baska, “American Dialect Society makes 'ussy' suffix its word of the year”, in PinkNews, archived from the original on 14 Jan 2024:Put my whole auntie nova ussy into this
2022 May 20, @badbrainowie, Twitter, archived from the original on 06 Feb 2024:❗️My GDF 2023 set is now out on SoundCloud! I really put my whole bass-ussy into this set 😮💨
2023 July 27, @edamamiofficial, Twitter, archived from the original on 06 Feb 2024:"[It] can be a physical structure analog — like a donutussy, [with] a hole, or it can be metaphorical," Conrod explained. "So, if you're a really dedicated coffee artist and you really put your whole baristaussy into this latte, I'm expecting some killer latte art."
2023 January 11, Emily Bloch, quoting Kirby Conrod, “Language scholars decided '-ussy' was the word of 2022. Here's what that means.”, in The Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia, P.A.: The Philadelphia Inquirer, LLC, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 18 Jan 2024:
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(Internet, broadly, humorous, morpheme) Added arbitrarily to any noun.
and that's when through the magic of the internetussy
2021 September 2, @checkyesgnomeo, Twitter, archived from the original on 06 Feb 2024:Though "-ussy" took off as a meme in 2022, its origins date way further back in historussy. "Bussy" — a portmanteau of "boy pussy" — has been a queer slang term for years, showing up on Urban Dictionary as early as 2004. In 2017, -ussified words had a big moment thanks to Ditty videos. This year, the -ussification came to TikTok, particularly in the comment section before becoming all but inescapable all across the internussy.
2022 December 27, Julia Reinstein, Ikran Dahir, Steffi Cao, “The 41 Most Defining Memes Of 2022”, in Buzzfeed News, archived from the original on 28 Sep 2023:what in the friedussy are those???
2022 January 27, @Oliver_wine, Twitter, archived from the original on 07 Feb 2024:[Michael] Dow deemed this class of words "pussy blends," a phrase that deserves its own place in historussy.
2023 January 13, Mia Mercado, “I Can't Shut Up About -Ussy”, in The Cut, archived from the original on 12 Mar 2023:Wow, that's a funny meme you got there, I bet it's completely original and you didn't steal it from a youtube channelussy...
2022 March 22, u/Ninethethotslayer, “Ussy”, in Reddit, r/MoldyMemes, archived from the original on 06 Feb 2024:Are you scared to address the absence within you? That everything surrounding you seems to be missing something? That there's this general sense of lack of something plaguing each detail of your existence, a lacking that you cannot place or name, and yet, you feel vibrating in the periphery of every moment? ¶ Don't worry. That's just the voidussy.
2022 February 28, Magdalene Taylor, “We've Reached Peak '-Ussy'”, in MEL Magazine, archived from the original on 01 Dec 2023:
Deriveds
Relateds
moussy (etymologically unrelated) · Fussy (etymologically unrelated) · octopussy (etymologically unrelated) · nussy (blends derived from "pussy") · sinussy (etymologically unrelated) · cactussy (etymologically unrelated) · wussy (etymologically unrelated) · fussy (etymologically unrelated) · asparagussy (etymologically unrelated) · gussy (blends derived from "pussy") · circussy (etymologically unrelated) · crocussy (etymologically unrelated) · gussy (etymologically unrelated) · Jussy (etymologically unrelated) · clussy (blends derived from "pussy") · sussy (etymologically unrelated) · tussy-mussy (etymologically unrelated) · Darier-Roussy syndrome (etymologically unrelated) · bussy (blends derived from "pussy") · mussy (etymologically unrelated) · nonfussy (etymologically unrelated) · overfussy (etymologically unrelated) · sussy baka (etymologically unrelated) · Darier-Roussy disease (etymologically unrelated) · henhussy (etymologically unrelated) · gussy up (etymologically unrelated) · unfussy (etymologically unrelated) · thrussy (blends derived from "pussy") · fussy cut (etymologically unrelated) · cussy (etymologically unrelated) · þussy (blends derived from "pussy") · ampussy (etymologically unrelated) · mucussy (etymologically unrelated) · hussy (etymologically unrelated) · hussy up (etymologically unrelated) · thussy (blends derived from "pussy")
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