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Yes. The word puss is a Scrabble US word. The word puss is worth 6 points in Scrabble:

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Yes. The word puss is a Scrabble UK word and has 6 points:

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4-letter words (2 found)

PUSS,SUPS,

3-letter words (4 found)

PUS,SUP,SUS,UPS,

2-letter words (2 found)

UP,US,

You can make 8 words from puss according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of puss

puss upss psus spus usps sups puss upss psus spus usps sups pssu spsu pssu spsu sspu sspu ussp susp ussp susp ssup ssup

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Definitions and meaning of puss

puss

Pronunciation

  • enPR: po͝os, IPA(key): /pʊs/
  • Rhymes: -ʊs

Etymology 1

Probably from Middle Low German pūs, pūskatte or Dutch poes (“puss, cat”, slang for “vulva”), ultimately from a common Germanic word for cat, perhaps ultimately imitative of a sound made to get its attention (compare Arabic بسة (bissa)).

Akin to West Frisian poes, Low German Puus, Puuskatte, Danish pus, dialectal Swedish kattepus, Norwegian pus.

Found also in several other European, North African and Asian languages; compare Romanian pisică, Persian پیشی (piši), Tamil பூசை (pūcai), Tagalog pusa and Sardinian pisittu.

Noun

puss (countable and uncountable, plural pusses)

  1. (informal, often as a term of address) A cat.
  2. (dated, endearing) A girl or young woman, or any child.
  3. (dated, hunting) A hare.
  4. (vulgar, slang) The vulva (female genitalia).
  5. (uncountable, vulgar, slang, metonymically) Sex with a woman.
  6. (vulgar, slang, chiefly Canada, US) A coward; a wuss; someone who is unable to stand up for themselves.
Synonyms
  • (cat): moggie/moggy
Derived terms
Related terms
  • pussy

Etymology 2

Of Celtic origin, from or akin to Irish pus (“mouth, lip”), from Middle Irish bus.

Noun

puss (plural pusses)

  1. (slang) The mouth.
    Shut your puss before I shut it for you.
  2. (slang) The face.
    She gave him a slap in the puss.
Synonyms
  • (mouth): cakehole, gob, mush, trap
Derived terms
  • sourpuss

Etymology 3

Noun

puss (uncountable)

  1. Alternative spelling of pus
    • 2010 Alien Purgatory page 40
      It didn't move as much, and the same teary puss leaked from its eyes.
    • 2012 Southern Supposition page 132
      People called him Puss Head because if you crossed him, he went to great lengths to make sure that before you died, puss leaked from your head.
    • 2016 When Crickets Cry page 267
      Puss leaked out from beneath white gauze on his back and trickled down his spine.

References

  • Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933.

Anagrams

  • PSUs, USPS, USPs, sups, susp

Norwegian Bokmål

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pʉs/

Etymology 1

From pusse (“to clean, polish, plaster, render”).

Noun

puss m (definite singular pussen, indefinite plural pusser, definite plural pussene)

  1. polish, finery
  2. (a layer of) plaster (mortar), plastering
  3. finery

Etymology 2

From Latin pus.

Noun

puss m or n (definite singular pussen or pusset)

  1. (pathology) pus (yellowish fluid from infected tissue)

Etymology 3

From Middle Low German putze, pusse, posse. Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *bautaną (“to hit”), likely in part through Old French boce (“bump”). Compare German Posse, Dutch poets.

Noun

puss n (definite singular pusset, indefinite plural puss, definite plural pussa or pussene)

  1. trick, prank

References

  • “puss” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From pusse (“to clean, polish, plaster, render”).

Noun

puss m (definite singular pussen, indefinite plural pussar, definite plural pussane)

  1. polish, finery
  2. (a layer of) plaster (mortar), plastering
  3. finery

Etymology 2

From Latin pus.

Noun

puss m or n (definite singular pussen or pusset)

  1. (pathology) pus (yellowish fluid from infected tissue)

Etymology 3

From Middle Low German putze, pusse, posse. Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *bautaną (“to hit”), likely in part through Old French boce (“bump”). Compare German Posse, Dutch poets.

Noun

puss n (definite singular pusset, indefinite plural puss, definite plural pussa)

  1. trick, prank

References

  • “puss” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Swedish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pɵs/

Etymology 1

Disputed origin. Likely onomatopoeic.

Noun

puss c

  1. Peck; a light or dispassionate kiss performed with closed lips, used for example as a greeting or in non-sensual/non-sexual contexts.
Declension
Related terms
  • pussa
See also
  • kram
  • kyss
  • pözz

Etymology 2

Doublet of pussig, pusta, påse, pösa, and pysa. One theory is that it was borrowed from German Pfütze.

Noun

puss c

  1. A puddle, a plash.
Declension
Derived terms
  • vattenpuss

Further reading

  • puss in Svenska Akademiens ordböcker
  • puss in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)

Anagrams

  • sups

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