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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
puss1

▶noun informal

1 a cat.

2 a coquettish girl or young woman: a glamour puss.

– origin C16: prob. from Mid. Low Ger. pūs or Du. poes.

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
puss2

▶noun N. Amer. informal or Irish & Scottish a person's face or mouth.

– origin C19: from Ir. pus ‘lip, mouth’.

'puss' also found in these Oxford entries:

puss moth - sourpuss

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