# How Did We Get From Pussy (cat) to Pussy (vag)? How Did Beaver Enter The Mix?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [September 21, 2022, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-we-get-from-pussy-cat-to-pussy-vag-how-did-beaver-enter-the-mix/971993 "2022-09-21T16:28:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![md-2000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9d8465/32.png) [@md-2000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/md-2000)\
**Post date:** [September 23, 2022, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-we-get-from-pussy-cat-to-pussy-vag-how-did-beaver-enter-the-mix/971993/41 "2022-09-23T18:46:21Z")

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> [@Exapno\_Mapcase](#):
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> Pick out any random single syllable word and the odds are surprisingly good that it has a secondary sexual usage in slang. Human minds are a cesspool. That’s why aliens don’t visit.

When the Chuck Berry song _My Ding-a-Ling_ was banned on British radio as being too rude, Punch published a cartoon of record executives sitting around a table, and one is saying “Can’t we find a euphemism for ‘Ding-a-Ling’?”

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**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\
**Post date:** [September 23, 2022, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-we-get-from-pussy-cat-to-pussy-vag-how-did-beaver-enter-the-mix/971993/42 "2022-09-23T18:54:45Z")

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> [@Exapno\_Mapcase](#):
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> But the absence of pussy in Grose and other early slang works argues against the vaginal sense being generally known **before late 19c.** ,

Well, it was very well known by that time, since the word shows up a lot in Victorian-era porn.

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**Author:** ![Moriarty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moriarty/32/49_2.png) [@Moriarty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moriarty)\
**Post date:** [September 24, 2022, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-we-get-from-pussy-cat-to-pussy-vag-how-did-beaver-enter-the-mix/971993/43 "2022-09-24T14:44:15Z")

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> [@Exapno\_Mapcase](#):
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> **Pussy-whipped** “hen-pecked” is attested by 1956 (Middle English had cunt-beaten “impotent,” in reference to a man, mid-15c.).

I’m reminded of something a friend once told me:

“You ever been whipped by a pussy? It’s not so bad.”

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