pusil

English

Etymology

Latin pusillus (“very little”).

Adjective

pusil (comparative more pusil, superlative most pusil)

  1. (obsolete) Very small; little; petty.
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for pusil in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

Cebuano

Etymology

From Spanish fusil (“rifle”), from French fusil (“rifle, gun”), from Old French fuisil, foisil, from Vulgar Latin *focīlis (petra), from Latin focus.

Pronunciation
  • Hyphenation: pu‧sil

Noun

pusil

  1. a gun; a device for projecting a hard object very forcefully; a firearm

Quotations

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