Puss vs Harass - What's the difference?
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As nouns the difference between puss and harass is that puss is (informal) a cat or puss can be (slang) the mouth while harass is (obsolete) devastation; waste. As a verb harass is to fatigue or to tire with repeated and exhausting efforts.
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puss English
Etymology 1
From a Common (etyl) word for cat. Akin to (etyl) , West Frisian (m), (etyl) (m), (m), Danish (m), dialectal (etyl) (m), (etyl) (m).
Found also in several other European and Western Asian languages. Compare (etyl) (m).
Noun
( es)
(informal) A cat.
- Our local theatre is showing Puss in Boots.
A girl or young woman.
(dated, hunting) A hare.
(vulgar, slang) Vulva (female genitalia).
Synonyms
* (cat) moggie/moggy
Related terms
* pussy
Etymology 2
Of (etyl) origin, from or akin to (etyl) .
Noun
( es)
(slang) The mouth.
- She gave him a slap in the puss .
Synonyms
* (mouth) cakehole, gob, mush, trap
Anagrams
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harass English
Verb
( es)
To fatigue or to tire with repeated and exhausting efforts.
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To annoy endlessly or systematically; to molest.
* 1877 , (Anna Sewell), (Black Beauty) Chapter 23[http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Black_Beauty/23]
- In my old home, I always knew that John and my master were my friends; but here, although in many ways I was well treated, I had no friend. York might have known, and very likely did know, how that rein harassed me; but I suppose he took it as a matter of course that could not be helped; at any rate nothing was done to relieve me.
To put excessive burdens upon; to subject to anxieties.
- in the early 1940s.
Synonyms
* hassle
* harry
* chivy or chivvy
* chevy or chevvy
* beset
* plague
* molest
* provoke
Derived terms
* harasser
* harassment
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Noun
(obsolete) devastation; waste
- (Milton)
(obsolete) worry; harassment
- (Byron)
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