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English thumb|The hole at the center of this doughnut could be called a donutussy.  Etymology Reanalyzed from blend blends formed with en pussy. The first -&NoBreak;ussy term is often considered to be en bussy boy + pussy, with evidence for the term as early as 2004.bussy However, the -&NoBreak;ussy suffix arguably originates in March–April 2017, when en nussy nose + pussy, en thrussy throat + pussy, and en thussy they + pussy were coined in quick succession and popularized on Tumblr.Ussy https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/ussy This was soon followed by the "one thicc bih" meme around May–June 2017, which led to a huge growth of novel -&NoBreak;ussy terms.One Thicc Bih https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/one-thicc-bihMichael Dow A corpus study of phonological factors in novel English blends Proceedings of the 2018 annual conference of the Canadian Linguistic Association https://web.archive.org/web/20240117201701/https://cla-acl.ca/pdfs/actes-2018/Dow-2018.pdf Ottawa Canadian Linguistic Association 2018 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". -&NoBreak;ussy became more prominent in 2022, resulting in the suffix being chosen as the American Dialect Society's 2022 Word of the Year.American Dialect Society Selects "-ussy" as 2022 Word of the Year American Dialect Society https://web.archive.org/web/20240205153657/https://americandialect.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/2022-Word-of-the-Year-PRESS-RELEASE.pdf 6 January 2023Kelly E[lizabeth] Wright Benjamin Zimmer Among the New Words American Speech 4 Durham, N.C. Duke University Press November 2023 98 454 10.1215/00031283-11036555 1527-2133 644323257 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. Pronunciation en /-ˈʊsi/ /-ˈʌsi/ en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame--ussy.wav US en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame--ussy.wav US Suffix en 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 en 23 September 2021 marbsworld 1441117006585950208 https://web.archive.org/web/20240206152219/https://twitter.com/marbsworld/status/1441117006585950208 6 February 2024 Not this en fruitussy play on my tl en Bethy Squires We Asked Linguists Why People Are Adding -Ussy to Every Word Vulture https://web.archive.org/web/20240202161826/https://www.vulture.com/2022/01/bussy-trend-linguists-explain.html 26 January 2022 Riffing off "bussy" (a portmanteau of "boy" and "pussy"), now everything is a cat or a cavity. A calzone is a en pizza pizzussy. A wine bottle has a en wine winussy. Princess Fiona has an en ogre ogussy. en 10 March 2022 McToaster99 OMORI taztf6 i044gj5 She's here (technically they're here) https://archive.ph/bHDlr 6 February 2024 en donutussy got me actin MANIC en Kuri Benitez anonymous A Content Analysis of Queer Slang on Tik Tok Student Research Submissions https://web.archive.org/web/20230518170954/https://scholar.umw.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1484&context=student_research Fredericksburg, V.I. w:University of Mary Washington 2022 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 en prune prunussy". en 30 November 2023 delerio2 Invincible 187g611 kbe4k2t In case you're wondering why the Insectussy was worth it https://archive.ph/U9wXY 6 February 2024 en bug Bug-ussy so good he made a Viltrumate change his ways en 2 February 2024 hang0utonclouds 1753584132515303662 https://archive.ph/HK2oz 6 February 2024 They're just gonna show his en groundhog-ussy like that!!? en Internet slang by extension humorous Combining with the phrase en put one's whole pussy into, denoting an effort of a specified kind or theme. en 20 May 2022 badbrainowie 1527764309056425984 https://archive.ph/8ravJ 6 February 2024 Put my whole auntie nova ussy into this en Maggie Baska American Dialect Society makes 'ussy' suffix its word of the year w:PinkNews https://web.archive.org/web/20240114153110/https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/01/08/american-dialect-society-ussy-word-of-the-year/ 8 January 2023 It should came as no surprise that people on social media put their whole en effortussy into the memes and jokes. Also arguably an example of sense 3. en Emily Bloch Kirby Conrod Language scholars decided '-ussy' was the word of 2022. Here's what that means. w:The Philadelphia Inquirer https://web.archive.org/web/20240118031329/https://www.inquirer.com/news/ussy-american-dialect-society-word-suffix-of-year-20230111.html Philadelphia, P.A. w:The Philadelphia Inquirer, LLC 11 January 2023 0885-6613 45211992 "[It] can be a physical structure analog — like a en 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 en baristaussy into this latte, I'm expecting some killer latte art." en 27 July 2023 edamamiofficial 1684723347186425856 https://web.archive.org/web/20240206152221/https://twitter.com/edamamiofficial/status/1684723347186425856 6 February 2024 ❗️My GDF 2023 set is now out on SoundCloud! I really put my whole en bass-ussy into this set 😮‍💨 en Internet slang by extension humorous Added arbitrarily to any noun. en 2 September 2021 checkyesgnomeo 1433328688460873731 https://archive.ph/DHfnr 6 February 2024 and that's when through the magic of the en internetussy en 27 January 2022 Oliver_wine 1486724305006198794 https://web.archive.org/web/20240207155856/https://twitter.com/Oliver_wine/status/1486724305006198794 7 February 2024 what in the en friedussy are those??? en Magdalene Taylor We've Reached Peak '-Ussy' w:MEL Magazine https://web.archive.org/web/20231201061234/https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/weve-reached-peak-ussy 28 February 2022 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 en voidussy. en 22 March 2022 Ninethethotslayer MoldyMemes tjxy44 i1o4si5 Ussy https://archive.ph/FU3cs 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 en channelussy... en Julia Reinstein Ikran Dahir Steffi Cao The 41 Most Defining Memes Of 2022 w:Buzzfeed News https://web.archive.org/web/20230928214448/https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/juliareinstein/the-41-most-defining-memes-of-2022 27 December 2022 Though "-ussy" took off as a meme in 2022, its origins date way further back in en history 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 -&NoBreak;ussification came to TikTok, particularly in the comment section before becoming all but inescapable all across the en internet internussy. en Mia Mercado I Can't Shut Up About -Ussy The Cut https://web.archive.org/web/20230312111140/https://www.thecut.com/2023/01/why-is-everyone-on-tiktok-using-the-suffix-ussy.html 13 January 2023 [Michael] Dow deemed this class of words "pussy blends," a phrase that deserves its own place in en history historussy. Usage notes Most terms formed with -ussy are blend blends, rather than true instances of suffixation. Thus, for example, en donussy is often preferred over en donutussy. See Citations:-ussy for examples of this. The -&NoBreak;ussy meme was extremely popular around 2021–2022 but has declined somewhat since then. Derived terms en -ussify -ussification Related terms en blends derived from "pussy" bussy clussy gussy<qq:noun> nussy thrussy thussy þussy See also en etymologically unrelated ampussy asparagussy cactussy circussy crocussy cussy Darier-Roussy disease Darier-Roussy syndrome Fussy fussy fussy cut gussy<qq:verb> gussy up henhussy hussy hussy up Jussy moussy mucussy mussy nonfussy octopussy overfussy sinussy sussy sussy baka tussy-mussy unfussy wussy References Further reading -ussy 1 en Genitalia