Citations:-ussify

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English citations of -ussify

Verb: to add the suffix -ussy to a word[edit]

  • 2022 January 26, Bethy Squires, “We Asked Linguists Why People Are Adding -Ussy to Every Word”, in Vulture[1], archived from the original on 2024-02-02:
    Bussy is bustin' out all over social media. From Andrew Garfield's Spadussy to Trader Joe's Citrusy spices, whole chunks of the internet are being -ussified.
  • 2023 January 16, Dani Janae, “This Is "-Ussy": On Mainstream Culture's Embrace of Queer Language”, in Autostraddle[2], archived from the original on 2023-10-02:
    Of course -ussy comes from pussy, but we weren't really ussifying anything until the word bussy stepped onto the scene. That's when people, mainly queer people, started saying things like "Ethel put her whole Cainussy into Ptolemaea!!!"