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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of pussyfoot.

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  • During the past three years of his fur-tuitous career, Cooper has churned out a veritable cat-alogue raisonné of photos taken on weekly jaunts around the neighborhood, during which he pussyfoots through brambles, along fence-tops, and under cars armed with a camera collar that snaps shots every two minutes.

    ARTINFO: Is This Cat a Great Photographer? The Seattle Art Scene's Feline Phenomenon ARTINFO 2011

  • During the past three years of his fur-tuitous career, Cooper has churned out a veritable cat-alogue raisonné of photos taken on weekly jaunts around the neighborhood, during which he pussyfoots through brambles, along fence-tops, and under cars armed with a camera collar that snaps shots every two minutes.

    ARTINFO: Is This Cat a Great Photographer? The Seattle Art Scene's Feline Phenomenon ARTINFO 2011

  • Aside from stating the obvious, that it would be good to reduce the need for abortion, he pussyfoots around the issue almost entirely throughout 252 pages.

    Half the Sky: Cover to Cover « Gender Across Borders 2009

  • The film pussyfoots around any sexual matters, but it's basically the same thing.

    Free Special Effect: Staring Fresca 2009

  • Unlike Iain Dale who claims an EXCLUSIVE but says nothing and pussyfoots around alleged names he allegedly knows I can reveal that the BBC has been injuncted from revealling that every member of the Bullingdon Boys Class of 1987 has been promised, by big D, a modest K or an immodest P - at some stage - for maintaining their generous contributions to the old alma mater.

    Archive 2007-02-25 2007

  • Unlike Iain Dale who claims an EXCLUSIVE but says nothing and pussyfoots around alleged names he allegedly knows I can reveal that the BBC has been injuncted from revealling that every member of the Bullingdon Boys Class of 1987 has been promised, by big D, a modest K or an immodest P - at some stage - for maintaining their generous contributions to the old alma mater.

    Archive 2007-03-01 2007

  • Richard McManus says the same thing but pussyfoots around criticising Steve directly.

    Archive 2006-02-01 2006

  • Richard McManus says the same thing but pussyfoots around criticising Steve directly.

    Scoops of vanilla perception 2006

  • Methinks you are all a bunch of pussyfoots, savvy?

    Wednesday Open Thread 2006

  • The GOP pussyfoots around maximizing their war profits while liberals pull the trigger, win and get it over.

    Lean Left » Blog Archive » A Message to Democratic Senators and Congresspeople 2006

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