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 Translation for 'puss' from English to French
NOUN   a puss | pusses
SYNO cunt | kitty | kitty-cat | ...
minou {m} [fam.] [chat]puss [coll.] [cat]
La ferme ! [fam.]Shut your puss! [Am.] [coll.]
littérat.théâtreF
Le chat botté {noun} [conte de fées]
Puss in Boots [fairy tale]
entom.T
vinule {f} [Cerura vinula] [papillon nocturne]
puss moth
entom.T
grande harpie {f} [Cerura vinula] [papillon nocturne]
puss moth
entom.T
queue {f} fourchue [Cerura vinula] [papillon nocturne]
puss moth
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Usage Examples English
  • He and Henry have a mutual hatred for each other because Henry’s a brat and Paul’s a sour puss.
  • "Cerura vinula", the puss moth (...), is a lepidopteran from the family Notodontidae. The species was first described by Carl Linnaeus in his 1758 10th edition of "Systema Naturae".
  • He was also nominated for a Horror Writers Association Bram Stoker Award (for his novel "The Dollhouse That Time Forgot") and a Gaylactic Spectrum Award (for his short story "Night of the Were puss").
  • A deleted scene directly after the helicopter crash had shown Stewie saying "come here, puss" for a second time, but this was replaced with another.
  • The larva is like a small version of the bizarre-looking larva of the puss moth, with the last pair of prolegs modified into two long "tails".

  • In a 1988 study conducted by Hugo Scheer and Harmut Kayser, biliproteins were extracted from the large white butterfly and puss moth and their respective properties were examined.  Their properties were compared to those of plant and algae biliproteins, and their distinguishing features were taken into account.
  • During his illness at home he needed to clean his sore on a constant basis since it oozed puss.
  • A related tradition is Puss Sunday. On the last Sunday before Ash Wednesday, single women were reported to "have a puss", from the word "pus" being a term for scowling, but on Leap Years men would have the puss.
  • Ashwatthama was then made to surrender the gem on his forehead and cursed by Krishna for 3000 years that he will roam in the forests with blood and puss oozing out of his injuries and cry for death but death would not meet him.
  • Al Spicer described this first incarnation of the band as "a fairly standard black-leather, sour-puss punk image, with songs that had a habit of building slowly towards a full-volume 'sturm-und-drang' climax".

  • The "Webster's Third International Dictionary" points out similarities between "pussy" in the sense of "vulva" and Low German or Scandinavian words meaning "pocket" or "purse", including Old Norse "pūss" and Old English "pusa".
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