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Actual OED:
a. Chiefly colloq. A girl or woman exhibiting characteristics associated with a cat, esp. sweetness or amiability....I'm no expert but in my limited experience cats are anything but amiable. What about the term: "...like trying to herd cats"?
Even the mafia agree:
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Actual OED:
a. Chiefly colloq. A girl or woman exhibiting characteristics associated with a cat, esp. sweetness or amiability....Right. Exactly. Regardless of my sexual identity, if you call me a pussy, according to the term's origins, you are comparing me to a cat; not to a lady's bits.
But, to your point, you are right. Cats, in general, are massive dicks.*
*by that I mean 'asshole'. Wait, this is getting hard.**
**euph
Actual OED:
a. Chiefly colloq. A girl or woman exhibiting characteristics associated with a cat, esp. sweetness or amiability. Freq. used as a pet name or as a term of endearment. Cf. puss n.1 3, pussycat n. 3.
[1959 M. Richler Apprenticeship Duddy Kravitz i. ix. 50 Milty ran off crying... ‘What is it, pussy-lamb?’]
b. slang (chiefly N. Amer.). A sweet or effeminate male; (in later use chiefly) a weakling, a coward, a sissy. Also: a male homosexual.
In quot. 1904: a man likened to a house-cat; a dependent or ‘domesticated’ man.
2004 J. Meno Hairstyles of Damned 125, I..wanted to ask her to Homecoming, but I was a pussy and embarrassed about being in love with her because she was fat.