Definition of Pussyfooter

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pussyfooter

pusta

Literary usage of Pussyfooter

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Journal of Social Hygiene by American Social Hygiene Association (1919)
"There is not the slightest hint in the social hygiene sergeant of the uplifter, or the reformer, the saint or the "pussyfooter." If he attacks venereal ..."

2. Full Up and Fed Up: The Worker's Mind in Crowded Britain by Whiting Williams (1921)
"One reason why I am so much of a pussyfooter (anti- drink propagandist) is this: during the war when the pubs were closed more than now we had full classes ..."

3. Woodrow Wilson and the World War: A Chronicle of Our Own Times by Charles Seymour (1921)
"He was, in Rooseveltian nomenclature, a "pussyfooter." Hence grew up the tradition, which was destined to endure among many elements of opinion, ..."

4. Woodrow Wilson and the World War: A Chronicle of Our Own Times by Charles Seymour (1921)
"He was, in Rooseveltian nomenclature, a "pussyfooter." Hence grew up the tradition, which was destined to endure among many elements of opinion, ..."

5. The Community Capitol: A Program for American Unity by Melville Clyde Kelly (1921)
"The "pussyfooter," the evader, the responsibility shirker, the passer of the buck in ordinary times, is a successful man in politics. ..."

6. Between You and Me by Harry Lauder (1919)
"They call him a "pussyfooter." Can you no see sicca man? He'll no put doon his feet firmly—he'll walk on the balls of them. His een will no look straight ..."

7. The Social Hygiene Bulletin by American Social Hygiene Association (1919)
"There is not the slightest hint in the social hygiene sergeant of the uplifter, or the reformer, the saint or the "pussyfooter." If he attacks venereal ..."

8. Common Cause: A Novel of the War in America : with Illustrations by Samuel Hopkins Adams, Houghton Mifflin Company (1919)
"... would n't do anybody any good, according to his figuring, and would only make things unpleasant." •: "A pussyfooter, eh?" . ..."

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