"puss" in Icelandic ? Swedish ?

[Laurence Horn]

>This "fud" business suggests that if "puss/ pussy" is an ancient
>survival, and if it came into English via the Danelaw, and if Scots
>writers such as Dunbar, Burns, and "Claudero" were familiar with it,
>then they should have had no misgivings about using it.
>
>But we have no record that they did. (The word's absence from
>Burns's uncensored _Merry Muses_ is especially significant.)

as just noted (I'm going through my "fud" files), it is present--at
least once--in Burns's "Jolly Beggars", with the 'pubic hair' sense


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