Tierra Whack

I was born in the summer, but I hate it because I'm allergic to bug bites. I would go play with my cousins, and then we'd go inside and I'd have mosquito bites everywhere. But mine are different - like, they blow up with puss. It's really bad.

American Musician

Jane Kaczmarek

I was never a glamour puss whose career was really based on a look or an attitude. I've been basically playing the same parts I am at 55 that I was at 35. I get cast as strong women, and that can be a mother or a judge or anything.

American Actress

Shaun Livingston

The knee was all deformed, bloodied up and leaking with puss. I just couldn't move it. Stiff. It was like I had a spare leg. All of my quad was skinny. It was like a pole with a pineapple in the middle of it.

American Basketball Player

Sally Hawkins

Being in nature is very important to me. I'm not a glamour puss.

English Actress

Used when showing love or affection towards a cat, similar to a pet name.

Affectionate Term

Usually said by cat owners or someone familiar with the cat, not used with unknown cats.

Familiar Setting

Not offensive when used for cats, but be careful: context matters with other meanings.

Non-Offensive

Can be seen as rude or derogatory when referring to a person's face; use with caution.

Potentially Offensive

Informal slang, typically found in American conversational language, not formal settings.

Colloquial Slang

Use among friends or in a playful manner, but never in professional or respectful discourse.

Casual Language

Used in medical or health contexts to describe a type of infection-related discharge.

Medical Context

Its presence indicates an infection that may need medical attention or treatment.

Sign of Infection

Don't confuse 'puss' with 'pus,' which is the correct spelling for the medical term.

Not Pus

 and putting them into healthy people through four or five scratches on the arm. This worked pretty well as inoculated people would not get reinfected, but it wasn't foolproof. Up to three percent of people would still die after being exposed to the puss.

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 And the fire that burned in me on day three through six of chemo is the fire that is burning in the forests of the world. I know that the abscess that grew around my wound after the operation, the 16 ounces of puss,

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 otherwise known as the white striped octopus his comparatively tiny counterpart only recently found here is Abdul puss a on us also called the shaggy octopus both mollusks spend

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 these shimmering comb genna's see puss burrs trap their prey with sticky net

Puss