pussivant

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verb

To engage in pointless, annoying or meddlesome activity; to fuss around.

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Meanings

verbpussivant (third-person singular simple present pussivants, present participle pussivanting, simple past and past participle pussivanted)

present singular third person pussivants · participle present pussivanting · participle past pussivanted · past pussivanted · alternative puzzivant

  1. archaicdialectalTo engage in pointless, annoying or meddlesome activity; to fuss around.

    The weather was fine, and the hay was in. It was one of those intervals between harvests which he was wont to take easy, and it would amuse him to think of his neighbour always ‘puzzivantin’’ over some ‘improvement’ or other.

    1923, John Galsworthy, Captures, London: William Heinemann Ltd., page 4

Origin

An alteration of pursuivant.

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