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Originally Posted by Worldwalker
That's started me wondering where the word "pussy" actually came from. Etymology Online isn't much help, at least with the cat sense of the word. But it seems like too much of a coincidence that the Russian word for one of the major attributes of cats is so close to one of the terms used for cats. Hmm ... what other languages have cognates to "pussy"? "Puss" has references to both Romance and Germanic languages.
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I've already said that hypothetical "Pushka" meaning is derived from "fluff" (like birds have), not "fur" (like cats have)
