-ussy ( UUS-ee) is an English-language suffix derived from the word pussy used to create novel portmanteau terms. The suffix has existed within LGBT slang in the form bussy (boy pussy) since the early 2000s, but was popularized in the late 2010s and early 2020s on social media platforms including TikTok. It was named the American Dialect Society's word of the year for 2022.
History
The suffix originated within LGBT slang in the forms bussy (boy pussy) and mussy (man pussy), referring to a man's anus, with these forms first appearing on the internet between 1999 and 2004.: 4 An April 2017 Tumblr post popularized the suffix with the term thrussy (from throat), and it was further spread as part of the "one thicc bih" Internet meme that began to spread about a month later.: 4 A 2018 study of -ussy usage on...