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pussyfootism

noun

Etymology

From pussyfoot + -ism.

  1. inherited from *pṓds✻
  2. inherited from *fōts✻
  3. inherited from *fōt✻
  4. inherited from fōt
  5. inherited from fot
  6. compounded as pussyfoot — “pussy + foot”
  7. suffixed as pussyfootism — “pussyfoot + ism”

Definitions

  1. A tendency to pussyfoot

    A tendency to pussyfoot; excessive timidity or caution.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for pussyfootism. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA