pusil

English

Etymology

Latin pusillus (“very little”).

Adjective

pusil (comparative more pusil, superlative most pusil)

(obsolete) Very small; little; petty.
- 1605, Francis Bacon, “(please specify |book=1 or 2)”, in The Twoo Bookes of Francis Bacon. Of the Proficience and Aduancement of Learning, Diuine and Humane, London: […] [Thomas Purfoot and Thomas Creede] for Henrie Tomes, […], →OCLC:
  
  a pusil and a thin soft air

Related terms

pusillanimous

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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

Pulis, pilus, pulis

Cebuano

Etymology

Borrowed 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

gun; firearm

Verb

pusil

to shoot using a gun or any firearm

Descendants

→ Western Bukidnon Manobo: pusil

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:pusil.

Anagrams

pulis

Ilocano

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish fusil (“rifle”).

Pronunciation

Hyphenation: pu‧sil
IPA^(key): /puˈsil/

Noun

pusíl

gun; firearm

Western Bukidnon Manobo

Etymology

Borrowed from Cebuano pusil, from Spanish fusil (“rifle”).

Noun

pusil

gun

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