pussycat

But I begin to wonder: Right now the lyrics are as nonsensical to her as an interspecies romance between and an owl and a pussycat, but that won’t always be the case.

From Slate ● Dec. 8, 2019

In the spirit of the old nursery rhyme she is a "pussycat pussycat who met the Queen" when Her Majesty visited the cathedral in 2013.

From BBC ● Feb. 2, 2018

She held onto the checked shirt with a pussycat bow she wore at her 1989 trial for smacking a Beverly Hills police officer after he pulled over her Rolls-Royce Corniche convertible for a traffic violation.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 1, 2018

Though his ironic nickname is "Mr. Warmth" because of his caustic humor, in reality Rickles is a pussycat.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 6, 2017

“Never take advice! Can’t keep still all day, and not being a pussycat, I don’t like to doze by the fire. I like adventures, and I’m going to find some.”

From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott

“As Alan Carr says, the faithful have got to up the nerve at the banishment table and behave less like pussycats and more like rottweilers,” said TV reporter Siobhan Synnot.

From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2025

Plus 1940s sipping-at-the-soda-shop starlet crepes in retro prints like rotary dial phones and slinky pussycats, or with judiciously placed rhinestones.

From New York Times ● Mar. 8, 2017

IT can make engines sound like purring pussycats — or growling tigers.

From New York Times ● Nov. 10, 2016

The food makers have found, moreover, that women shoppers are as finicky as pussycats about buying pet food; supermarkets now offer her some 124 canned, dry or semi-moist varieties from which to choose.

From Time Magazine Archive

Every house added six or seven to the number, and soon hundreds of pussycats were standing before the Queen, bowing gracefully and crying, "Welcome, your Majesty!" in all sorts of voices.

From Dot and Tot of Merryland by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum