(n.) A pet name for a cat; also, an endearing name for a girl.
(n.) A catkin of the pussy willow.
(n.) The game of tipcat; -- also called pussy cat.
(a.) See Pursy.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is the same article of the law that was used against Pussy Riot and can carry a jail sentence of several years.
(2) Tolokonnikova was given a two-year sentence for her part in Pussy Riot's "punk prayer" in Moscow's largest cathedral, calling on the Virgin Mary to "kick out Putin".
(3) Three members of the Russian feminist punk band Pussy Riot are facing two years in a prison colony after they were found guilty of hooliganism motivated by religious hatred, in a case seen as the first salvo in Vladimir Putin's crackdown on opposition to his rule.
(4) "We're trying to get Sting to wear a Pussy Riot T-shirt at his concert tonight," he'd told me the day before.
(5) But Pussy Riot were the first, perhaps because they had aimed and articulated their protest so well.
(6) Artists round the globe may plead free speech, but to treat the Pussy Riot gesture as a glorious stand for artistic liberty is like praising Johnny Rotten, who did similar things, as the Voltaire of our day.
(7) In a storm of Twitter messages exchanged between the lawyers, journalists, and Pussy Riot supporters on Tuesday, Polozov accused the Kremlin of waging the campaign against them.
(8) Pussy Riot's supporters accuse Putin of personally orchestrating the campaign against the band.
(9) Since a tape was released of Trump bragging about grabbing women “by the pussy”, nine women have come forward with accusations that he groped them without consent.
(10) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Pussy Riot, including Nadezhda (Nadya) Tolokonnikova in the blue balaclava and Maria Alyokhina in the pink balaclava, are attacked by Cossack militia in Sochi, Russia, on 19 February 2014.
(11) The drawings feature a large female icon, her face replaced with the neon balaclavas that Pussy Riot use to mask their identity.
(12) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Revolution by Pussy Riot Theatre.
(13) A storm of criticism broke in Russia following the harsh two-year prison sentences given to three members of the feminist punk band Pussy Riot for protesting against the government in a Moscow cathedral.
(14) Do they see the Pussy Riot performers as prisoners of conscience or as hooligans causing deep offence to Russia's state religion?
(15) The ASA said that the ads did not directly link the word "pussy" with women and so was not derogatory or sexist to women.
(16) Earlier this month , some more of Pussy Riot's masked members released a video condemning corruption in the Russian oil industry .
(17) Pussy Riot is the little boy who goes to school and gets told to man up when he expresses his emotions.
(18) A t 22, 24 and 29 years of age, Pussy Riot's Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, Maria Alekhina and Yekaterina Samutsevich are part of the generation of women for whom Madonna blazed a trail in the 80s and 90s, making music that was controversial, but always promoted women's freedom.
(19) "The Pussy Riot case is political," wrote Tikhon Dzyadko, a prominent journalist.
(20) Ford, to them, is the antithesis of all that liberal namby-pambyness: he's the ordinary working man (albeit one who buys crack) and a good family guy (albeit one who has been repeatedly accused of sexual harassment and who, when asked if he ever told a colleague he wanted to "eat her pussy" he replied that he has "plenty enough to eat at home").
Snatch
Definition:
(n.) To take or seize hastily, abruptly, or without permission or ceremony; as, to snatch a loaf or a kiss.
(n.) To seize and transport away; to rap.
(v. i.) To attempt to seize something suddenly; to catch; -- often with at; as, to snatch at a rope.
(n.) A hasty catching or seizing; a grab; a catching at, or attempt to seize, suddenly.
(n.) A short period of vigorous action; as, a snatch at weeding after a shower.
(n.) A small piece, fragment, or quantity; a broken part; a scrap.
(n.) The handle of a scythe; a snead.
Example Sentences:
(1) Protesting naked, as Femen's slogans insist, is liberté , a reappropriation of their own bodies as opposed to pornography or snatched photographs which are exploitation.
(2) We caught snatches of a conversation with Amy Childs, star of docusoap The Only Way is Essex.
(3) Before bids being lodged, sources had indicated that Sky was not prepared to make a knockout bid to snatch back the rights from BT, which has justified the expense to customers and shareholders as “financially disciplined”.
(4) Britain is still sending regular reinforcements across the Atlantic, from the new Spider-Man signing ( Tom Holland from Surrey ), to the actors who have recently snatched real-life national archetypes like Abraham Lincoln ( Daniel Day-Lewis ), Ernest Hemingway (Clive Owen) and Martin Luther King (David Oyelowo ) from the grasp of American stars.
(5) But even if Greece is snatched from the brink of bankruptcy and kept in the euro in the coming days, the cause of promoting solidarity between eurozone nations has been long forgotten.
(6) Album of the year: Random Access Memories - Daft Punk Daft Punk snatches record of the year from Macklemore's tiny fists.
(7) But in January 2010, men snatched Mobley off the street, shot him in the leg and took him into custody.
(8) According to the Guardian, the CIA has used almost 20 airports across the UK during the period when its agents have snatched terror suspects and transferred them to countries where they may be tortured.
(9) Last week ITV snatched the rights to the French Open tennis tournament , as the BBC looks to reduce what it spends on sport as part of the "Delivering Quality First" cost-cutting initiative.
(10) He told his story in animated and confused snatches.
(11) He snatches at the ball and shoots it high over the crossbar.
(12) The following correction was printed in the Guardian's Corrections and clarifications column, Saturday November 17 2007 The obituary below said that some of the uranium used in the Little Boy atom bomb was snatched from Soviet-occupied Germany in 1945 by an Anglo-American special unit.
(13) They said their leaders are being killed and they no longer want to fight but they are afraid of going back to their communities.” The schoolgirls were snatched by Boko Haram militants in the north-eastern Nigerian village of Chibok in April, sparking international condemnation and the Bring Back Our Girls campaign.
(14) Shalit was captured by Palestinians who tunnelled from Gaza into Israel and killed two other members of his tank crew before snatching him.
(15) Messina Denaro was also part of the gang that in 1993 snatched Giuseppe di Matteo, the 11-year-old son of a turncoat.
(16) She has a daughter, who is eight, but Miriama refuses to take her to visit her mother, who still lives in Africa and has never met her granddaughter, in case the child is snatched and taken to be cut, as Miriama's mother did to her.
(17) "I probably should have had a hat-trick, but I snatched at the last one, to be honest," Rooney said.
(18) Three others were snatched in another oil field on 3 February and their whereabouts also remain unknown.
(19) Meyers said: “That’s the face you make when your wife snatches away your newspaper and screams: ‘Whose earrings are these?’” Trump’s presidency is still in its early days: extremely early for a special prosecutor to be involved.
(20) Blood gutters brightly against his green gown, yet the man doesn't shudder or stagger or sink but trudges towards them on those tree-trunk legs and rummages around, reaches at their feet and cops hold of his head and hoists it high, and strides to his steed, snatches the bridle, steps into the stirrup and swings into the saddle still gripping his head by a handful of hair.