PUSSYFOOT Definition & Meaning

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pussyfoot

[ poos-ee-foot ]

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verb (used without object)

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

plural pussyfoots.

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

pussyfoot

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verb

to move about stealthily or warily like a cat
to avoid committing oneself

noun

a person who pussyfoots

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Origin of pussyfoot¹

An Americanism dating back to 1890–95; pussy ¹ + foot

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He took me aside and said sternly, “You can’t pussyfoot it.”

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“I tried to pussyfoot around it, I tried to break up with her,” Wade told sports commentator Shannon Sharpe in a recirculated clip from his June interview on the “Club Shay Shay” podcast.

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Perhaps – nah, let's stop pussyfooting and call it like it is.

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“The government is pussyfooting around the ESM, which is a very, very small piece in a much larger problem that has to do with overall European economic governance,” he said.

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California’s governor retorted, posting a video of Mr. DeSantis at a podium apparently glancing down at a crib sheet before making the “pussyfooting” challenge.

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