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pussy [origin uncertain] Eastern Arctic, Obs. 
n. See quotes.
- 1852 ". . . I am as much puzzled . . . as was our good old King Talua (may his spirit revel in the land of blubber and pussis!) when the first white men first came among us."
- 1852 [A seal, general name Labrador Eskimo puese (P. pue-sit).]
- 1860 (1865) Tookoolito informed me to-day that the words pickaninny, for infant; cooney, for wife; pussy, for seal; Husky, for Innuit; smoketute, for pipe, and many other words, are not Esquimaux, though in use among her people.
- 1852 ". . . I am as much puzzled . . . as was our good old King Talua (may his spirit revel in the land of blubber and pussis!) when the first white men first came among us."