# what does "pussy" mean in the expression, "Hey man, you're a pussy" **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [May 8, 2005, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-pussy-mean-in-the-expression-hey-man-youre-a-pussy/302926 "2005-05-08T15:49:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2016, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-pussy-mean-in-the-expression-hey-man-youre-a-pussy/302926/41 "2016-08-14T14:52:54Z")
> [@quiltguy](#): > > I wonder if anyone objected to it at the time? It happened at a time when people did object but couldn’t say so. ---
**Author:** ![Leo\_Bloom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leo_bloom/32/10377_2.png) [@Leo\_Bloom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Bloom)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2016, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-pussy-mean-in-the-expression-hey-man-youre-a-pussy/302926/42 "2016-08-14T15:34:01Z")
> [@BrotherCadfael](#): > > Of course, “nothing” is also slang for that same female body part. It’s a bit dated, but Shakespeare used it. Only when merry. Cuntry. ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2016, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-pussy-mean-in-the-expression-hey-man-youre-a-pussy/302926/43 "2016-08-14T15:48:06Z")
> [@quiltguy](#): > > It seemed to have worked fairly well for Sean Connery, in the film “Goldfinger.” 007’s wonderfully, sexy burr of an accent, mouthing the name Pussy, sent plenty of vibrations up and down many spines. I know it was actually the character’s name, but Connery made it extra special. I wonder if anyone objected to it at the time? People did object. Again, context. If Bond just referred to a woman by Pussy as a pet name, most people would let it go by. Girls could be called Kitten, as the youngest daughter on Father Knows Best was. Calling an adult woman Puss or Pussy might be a touch risque but nothing serious. Instead, Fleming named the character Pussy Galore. As a phrase that was single entendre. “I got pussy galore” was something a man who was a tomcat might say. It was also something Bond could claim. Remember that in the book, Pussy Galore was a lesbian before she gets converted to “proper” sex by Bond’s dick. Everything about her was intended to push buttons and be on the edge of acceptibility. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2016, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-pussy-mean-in-the-expression-hey-man-youre-a-pussy/302926/44 "2016-08-14T17:58:35Z")
One complicating factor in relying on dictionary first-usage dates is that slang terms for sexual anatomy are less likely than most words to end up in the publications that dictionaries look to for sources. They will still get printed in some forms, but those forms are less likely to be kept and found by archivists. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-pussy-mean-in-the-expression-hey-man-youre-a-pussy/302926.md?page=2)