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pussyfoot

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Mr. Pussyfoot Johnson has told a Glasgow audience that he is no kill-joy, but smokes cigars.

He had been called many things—loan-shark, skinflint, tightwad, pussyfoot—but he had never before been called a flirt.

It appears that the man called the lamp-post "Pussyfoot," and the latter promptly knocked him down.

Converting a pussyfoot into liquid measure with caustic soda water.

But that is another story, and might bring Mr. Pussyfoot Johnson on the scene before his time.

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On this page you'll find 71 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to pussyfoot, such as: avoid, creep, dodge, equivocate, evade, and glide.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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