pusil
English
editEtymology
editFrom Latin pusillus (“very little”).
Adjective
editpusil (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
editPart 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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Anagrams
editCebuano
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Spanish fusil (“rifle”).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editpusíl (Badlit spelling ᜉᜓᜐᜒᜎ᜔)
Quotations
edit- For quotations using this term, see Citations:pusil.
Derived terms
editDescendants
edit- → Western Bukidnon Manobo: pusil
Anagrams
editIlocano
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Spanish fusil (“rifle”).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editpusíl (Kur-itan spelling ᜉᜓᜐᜒᜎ᜔)
Western Bukidnon Manobo
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Cebuano pusil, from Spanish fusil (“rifle”).
Noun
editpusil
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