According to some soft sources, such as this yahoo answers question the term pussycat is a female cat, complementing the tom cat wh. The word pussy is often used to mean coward This guy is a pussy And i am wondering why How are woman's genitals related to being a coward? In the late 60s there was an artficial attempt to establish the term 'pussycat' as a cool term of endearment/chatup line
Fortunately it never took off and the only remnant of it is the tom jones number 'what's new pussycat?' i always thought that having matt crawford use it was meant as an indication of his age and smarmy impressionability. 2 barenaked bunnyrabbit forefront kittycat ratfink pussycat sodapop sumtotal taperecord tincan admittedly, some of those would more often be written with a hyphen (or even a space) to separate their component words. This usage is not always seen as accurate or correct You'll need to complete a few actions and gain 15 reputation points before being able to upvote Upvoting indicates when questions and answers are useful What's reputation and how do i get it
According to my grammar book, but at variance to the answer to this question, the correct singular possessive if a word ends in ‑s is James’s car the grammar book allows exceptions for historical The phrase paint yourself blue, face magnetic north sounded familiar to me as well, and it's because something similar was spoken by the character austin james in the 1988 tv series probe, specifically in the pilot episode When i was eight years old, i took off all my clothes and painted myself blue Then i climbed up on the roof of a house, i placed both thumbs on the base of a lightning. The phrase hot diggity dog! dates to at least 1928, when al jolson was recorded saying hot diggity dog
Didn't i tell you you'd love it? after a performance of the tune there's a rainbow around my shoulder There was also a song from 1956 called hot diggity (dog ziggity boom) (same article).
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