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Definition of Pussyfooted
1. pussyfoot [v] - See also: pussyfoot
Literary usage of Pussyfooted
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Sunset by Southern Pacific Company, Southern Pacific Company. Passenger Dept (1915)
"... silence for an hour; then judging the coast to be clear, he picked up his
boots, his camp cot and his blanket and pussyfooted out to the veranda. ..."
2. The University of Hard Knocks: The School that Completes Our Education by Ralph Albert Parlette (1917)
"He "pussyfooted" it along so carefully. He bumped his hand against a seat.
Then he did what every blind man does, he lifted his hand higher and didn't bump ..."
3. Shellproof Mack: An American's Fighting Story by Arthur James Mack (1918)
"My throat got dry and the hair crawled on the back of my neck and I itched in
seventeen separate places. "Hig" pussyfooted down next to me and ..."
4. Between Shotsby P. L. Crosby by P. L. Crosby (1919)
"I pussyfooted back, expecting to be overtaken by the sput-sput of a machine gun.
6. When all of a sudden—ZI-INGI A bullet split the stillness of the night. ..."
5. Essays on English by Brander Matthews (1921)
"Some of them are adjectives: bone-dry, bone-headed, foolproof, gun-shy, tangle-foot,
foot-loose, pussyfooted. The nouns have been formed in the same fashion ..."
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