i Register
In some senses, puss is marked as informal, dated, slang, vulgar. Watch for register when choosing this word.
noun
A cat.
Our local theatre is showing Puss in Boots.
Come here, puss! I've got some milk for you.
A girl or young woman, or any child.
A hare.
He then began to beat about, in the ſame Language, and in the ſame Manner, as if he had been beating for a Hare, and at laſt cried out, 'Soho! Puſs is not far off. Here's her Form, upon my Soul; I believe I may cry ſtole away.'
'[…] It won't kill Puss any better for that.' / "'But, goodness gracious, what can that hare be made of?' I asked.
The vulva (female genitalia).
Sex with a woman.
So don't know! So, what are you gonna do? Sell your birthright for a little bit of puss?
noun
The mouth.
Shut your puss before I shut it for you.
Hubbert has a rasping voice and a razory laugh, and he's busy and theatrical in the worst way — a noisy performing pro with whirlwind arms and a saturnine puss.
The face.
She gave him a slap in the puss.
noun
Alternative spelling of pus.
It didn't move as much, and the same teary puss leaked from its eyes.
People called him Puss Head because if you crossed him, he went to great lengths to make sure that before you died, puss leaked from your head.