Definitions for pussyfoot

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pussyfoot puss·y·foot

Spelling: [poo s-ee-foo t]

IPA: /ˈpʊs iˌfʊt/

Pussyfoot is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 185 anagrams from letters in pussyfoot (foopsstuy).

Definitions for pussyfoot

verb (used without object)

1. to go or move in a stealthy or cautious manner.
2. to act cautiously or timidly, as if afraid to commit oneself on a point at issue.

noun

1. a person with a catlike, or soft and stealthy, tread.
2. Chiefly British. a teetotaler or prohibitionist.

Origin of pussyfoot

An Americanism dating back to 1890-95; pussy¹ + foot

Examples for pussyfoot

Are Mr. Volstead or Mr. pussyfoot Johnson satisfied with the present condition of things in their country?

It appears that the man called the lamp-post "pussyfoot," and the latter promptly knocked him down.

Call him a pussyfoot as well; you cannot shake him from his pinnacle.

Your king of Kusiak has to learn some time that everybody isn't going to sidestep him and pussyfoot when he's around.

But that is another story, and might bring Mr. pussyfoot Johnson on the scene before his time.

Mr. pussyfoot Johnson has told a Glasgow audience that he is no kill-joy, but smokes cigars.

It was to have one church, to be used by the various denominations, and to be what is now called “pussyfoot.”

Converting a pussyfoot into liquid measure with caustic soda water.

He had been called many things—loan-shark, skinflint, tightwad, pussyfoot—but he had never before been called a flirt.