# -ussy
## English
### Etymology

Reanalyzed from blends formed with pussy. The first -⁠ussy term is often considered to be bussy (boy + pussy), with evidence for the term as early as 2004. However, the -⁠ussy suffix arguably originates in March–April 2017, when nussy (nose + pussy), thrussy (throat + pussy), and thussy (they + pussy) were coined in quick succession and popularized on Tumblr. This was soon followed by the "one thicc bih" meme around May–June 2017, which led to a huge growth of novel -⁠ussy terms. -⁠ussy became more prominent in 2022, resulting in the suffix being chosen as the American Dialect Society's 2022 Word of the Year.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /-ˈʊsi/, /-ˈʌsi/
* Audio (US):(file)

### Suffix

-ussy
* (Internet slang, humorous) Denoting anything thought to resemble the female genitalia (the "pussy") in some way, often referring to the genitalia of non-human creatures, usually implying that the object in question is fuckable. [from 2017]
** 2021 September 23, @marbsworld, Twitter‎, archived from the original on 6 February 2024:Not this fruitussy play on my tl
** 2022 January 26, Bethy Squires, “We Asked Linguists Why People Are Adding -Ussy to Every Word”, in Vulture‎, archived from the original on 2024-02-02:Riffing off "bussy" (a portmanteau of "boy" and "pussy"), now everything is a cat or a cavity. A calzone is a pizzussy. A wine bottle has a winussy. Princess Fiona has an ogussy.
** 2022 March 10, u/McToaster99, “She's here (technically they're here)”, in Reddit‎, r/OMORI, archived from the original on 6 February 2024:donutussy got me actin MANIC
** 2022, Kuri Benitez, anonymous quotee, A Content Analysis of Queer Slang on Tik Tok (Student Research Submissions)‎, Fredericksburg, V.I.: University of Mary Washington, archived from the original on 2023-05-18:One example of this theme was from a video of a store clerk using the "-ussy" suffix slang to make a joke about the location of a barcode on the underside of a bag of dried prunes, dubbing it "the prunussy".
** 2023 November 30, u/delerio2, “In case you're wondering why the Insectussy was worth it”, in Reddit‎, r/Invincible, archived from the original on 6 February 2024:Bug-ussy so good he made a Viltrumate change his ways
** 2024 February 2, @hang0utonclouds, Twitter‎, archived from the original on 6 February 2024:They're just gonna show his groundhog-ussy like that!!?
* (Internet slang, by extension, humorous) Combining with the phrase put one's whole pussy into, denoting an effort of a specified kind or theme.
** 2022 May 20, @badbrainowie, Twitter‎, archived from the original on 6 February 2024:Put my whole auntie nova ussy into this
** 2023 January 8, Maggie Baska, “American Dialect Society makes 'ussy' suffix its word of the year”, in PinkNews‎, archived from the original on 2024-01-14:It should came as no surprise that people on social media put their whole effortussy into the memes and jokes.Also arguably an example of sense 3.
** 2023 January 11, Emily Bloch, quoting Kirby Conrod, “Language scholars decided '-ussy' was the word of 2022. Here's what that means.”, in The Philadelphia Inquirer‎, Philadelphia, P.A.: The Philadelphia Inquirer, LLC, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2024-01-18:"[It] can be a physical structure analog — like a donutussy, [with] a hole, or it can be metaphorical," Conrod explained. "So, if you're a really dedicated coffee artist and you really put your whole baristaussy into this latte, I'm expecting some killer latte art."
** 2023 July 27, @edamamiofficial, Twitter‎, archived from the original on 6 February 2024:❗️My GDF 2023 set is now out on SoundCloud! I really put my whole bass-ussy into this set 😮‍💨
* (Internet slang, by extension, humorous) Added arbitrarily to any noun.
** 2021 September 2, @checkyesgnomeo, Twitter‎, archived from the original on 6 February 2024:and that's when through the magic of the internetussy
** 2022 January 27, @Oliver_wine, Twitter‎, archived from the original on 7 February 2024:what in the friedussy are those???
** 2022 February 28, Magdalene Taylor, “We've Reached Peak '-Ussy'”, in MEL Magazine‎, archived from the original on 2023-12-01:Are you scared to address the absence within you? That everything surrounding you seems to be missing something? That there's this general sense of lack of something plaguing each detail of your existence, a lacking that you cannot place or name, and yet, you feel vibrating in the periphery of every moment? ¶ Don't worry. That's just the voidussy.
** 2022 March 22, u/Ninethethotslayer, “Ussy”, in Reddit‎, r/MoldyMemes, archived from the original on 6 February 2024:Wow, that's a funny meme you got there, I bet it's completely original and you didn't steal it from a youtube channelussy...
** 2022 December 27, Julia Reinstein, Ikran Dahir, Steffi Cao, “The 41 Most Defining Memes Of 2022”, in Buzzfeed News‎, archived from the original on 2023-09-28:Though "-ussy" took off as a meme in 2022, its origins date way further back in historussy. "Bussy" — a portmanteau of "boy pussy" — has been a queer slang term for years, showing up on Urban Dictionary as early as 2004. In 2017, -ussified words had a big moment thanks to Ditty videos. This year, the -⁠ussification came to TikTok, particularly in the comment section before becoming all but inescapable all across the internussy.
** 2023 January 13, Mia Mercado, “I Can't Shut Up About -Ussy”, in The Cut‎, archived from the original on 2023-03-12:[Michael] Dow deemed this class of words "pussy blends," a phrase that deserves its own place in historussy.

#### Usage notes

* Most terms formed with -ussy are blends, rather than true instances of suffixation. Thus, for example, donussy is often preferred over donutussy. See Citations:-ussy for examples of this.
* The -⁠ussy meme was extremely popular around 2021–2022 but has declined somewhat since then.

#### Derived terms

* -ussification
* -ussify

#### Related terms

* bussy
* clussy
* gussy (noun)
* nussy
* thrussy
* thussy
* þussy

#### See also

* ampussy
* asparagussy
* cactussy
* circussy
* crocussy
* cussy
* Darier-Roussy disease
* Darier-Roussy syndrome
* Fussy
* fussy
* fussy cut
* gussy (verb)
* gussy up
* henhussy
* hussy
* hussy up
* Jussy
* moussy
* mucussy
* mussy
* nonfussy
* octopussy
* overfussy
* sinussy
* sussy
* sussy baka
* tussy-mussy
* unfussy
* wussy

### References

* ↑ “bussy”, in Urban Dictionary, launched 1999.
* ↑ “Ussy”, in Know Your Meme, launched 2007
* ↑ “One Thicc Bih”, in Know Your Meme, launched 2007
* ↑ Michael Dow (2018) “A corpus study of phonological factors in novel English blends”, in Proceedings of the 2018 annual conference of the Canadian Linguistic Association‎, Ottawa: Canadian Linguistic Association, archived from the original on 2024-01-17, pages 4–5:The "one thicc bih" meme as we know it first appears towards the end of May 2017. […] The essential formula of the meme is as follows: "x is one thicc bih, let me see that y," where x designates a noun (typically a character or famous personality), and y represents a blend of that word, or a semantically related word, and the word "pussy".
* ↑ “American Dialect Society Selects "-ussy" as 2022 Word of the Year”, in American Dialect Society‎, 2023 January 6, archived from the original on 2024-02-05
* ↑ Kelly E[lizabeth] Wright, Benjamin Zimmer (2023 November) “Among the New Words”, in American Speech, volume 98, number 4, Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 454: “Last year saw a rapid uptick online in ussification, or adding the suffix -ussy on to new forms: an exhaust pipe became a cussy, a garage became a garussy, depression became deprussy, and suddenly one's whole bussy could be put into things.”

### Further reading

* -ussy on Wikipedia.Wikipedia