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pussify en · VERB

Pronunciation

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Etymology

Etymology tree English pussy Latin -i- Proto-Italic *-fakos Latin -ficus Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu. Proto-Italic *-ājō Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -ō Latin -ficō Latin -ificāreder. Old French -ifierbor. Middle English -ifien English -ify English pussify From pussy + -ify.

Meanings

1. (slang, transitive, vulgar) To render weak and effeminate.
   • The old men who were dying in the Frank Sinatra Wing were here in part because they thought cholesterol was a concept invented by feminists to pussify them […] 2004, Eric Dezenhall, Shakedown Beach:
   • […] to pussify their sound in order to appeal to the lowest common denominator, which will theoretically help that corporation move a bajillion units. 2006, Alan Goldsher, Modest Mouse: A Pretty Good Read:
   • It's a perfectly noble and respectable word. So let's look at this pussified, trendy bullshit phrase, Native Americans. First of all, they're not natives. 1998, George Carlin, Brain Droppings:
   • […] how she kept telling him that he was getting too pussified to be seen with her by Marines. 2006, Wallace Williamson, Collins Crossing:

Forms

Deriveds

pussification

Translations (3)

pl czynić cipą (to render someone weak) · fi tehdä nynnymäiseksi (to render someone weak) · ro pizdifica (to render someone weak)