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SW-User
My children, wife, and myself still refer to our kitties as pussycats. There is no thought or intention to be making sexual references in that manner. To the pure, all things are pure.
However, on S.W. it most likely takes on an entirely different meaning. It is strange how the etymology of words change over time.
However, on S.W. it most likely takes on an entirely different meaning. It is strange how the etymology of words change over time.

SW-User
@SW-User exactly! Maybe it's because I'm an animal lover that I find it classless in a way I would think someone referring to a child in that manner would be. A little smaller scale than a child obviously, but same kind of ewww factor.
Serenitree · F
@SW-User pussycat has never been sexual. It is pussy that seems to have been a sexual reference, from what I've been able to find, for about 4 or 5 hundred years.