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† ˈpussock Obs. rare. [f. puss n.1 + -ock.] A term for an old maid; an ‘old tabby’.
1622Mabbe tr. Aleman's Guzman D'Alf. i. 26, I haue knowne since some old Maids Pussockes in comparison of her [my Mother] of greater yeeres and lesse Handsomnesse, that would call themselues..Girles and little pretty Maidens. |