puss.
polish, finery
Meaning & usage
polish, finery
plaster (mortar), plastering
finery
Where this word comes from
From pusse (“to clean, polish, plaster, render”).
trick, prank
Where this word comes from
From Middle Low German putze, pusse, posse. Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *bautaną (“to hit”), likely in part through Old French boce (“bump”). Compare German Posse, Dutch poets.
pus (yellowish fluid from infected tissue)
Where this word comes from
From Latin pus.
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