| 词汇 | puss |
| 词源 | puss. Irish immigrants apparently introduced puss to Ameri- ca in the early 1880s, the slang word deriving from the Gaelic pus, “mouth.” Not long after the expression to make a puss, “to pout,” became part of our vocabulary. So did sour puss. |
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