To think pussy is a rude word?

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If someone said that another person was being “a bit of a pussy” AIBU to think it’s rude, or would you take it as meaning “meek like a pussy cat”?

YABU it means cat
YANBU its rude/it means vagina

and still nobody has voted so I will have to get him to read all of the replies instead of being able to send him a percentage.

In that context it means the same as scaredy cat I.e wimp.

It's also not always used as derogatory. You might say if someone that looks a bit scary 'he might look tough but he's a pussy cat really'. Its always been quite widely used here in Scotland. It's definitely NOT American.

Yes, even in America, men often say don’t be such a pussy to each other. It does mean scaredy-cat, but they will not use it in church, school, around their parents , etc because it became a profane language because it also means vagina. (Which it based from cat, I don’t know why they see women and their lady bits as cats)

It's one of those words that has multiple definitions and people use it without thinking about what it actually means.

Traditionally pussy would mean cat. So calling a person a "pussy" would be suggesting they are a "scaredy cat". Today pussy is more often used as a term for a vagina, so people use it as a suggestion of weakness or feminimity. But people rarely think about it in any depth when they use the term - they just see "pussy" as an insult, meaning someone is weak, but completely divorced from either its original meaning or its new one.

A similar thing has happened with the word gay. Traditionally it meant happy or jolly, but has come to mean homosexual. So calling someone "gay" might mean they were happy, or it might mean they thought they were homosexual. There's also the more modern meaning of gay something being rubbish, which bears no relation so either the traditional or modern definition of the word.