pusil

From Latin pusillus (“very little”).

pusil (comparative more pusil, superlative most pusil)

1. (obsolete) Very small; little; petty.
   • 1605, Francis Bacon, “(please specify |book=1 or 2)”, in The Twoo Bookes of Francis Bacon. Of the Proficience and Aduancement of Learning, Diuine and Humane, London: […] [Thomas Purfoot and Thomas Creede] for Henrie Tomes, […], →OCLC:

     a pusil and a thin soft air

• pusillanimous

• “pusil”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• Pulis, pilus, pulis

Borrowed from Spanish fusil (“rifle”).

• IPA^(key): /puˈsil/ [pʊˈs̪il̪]
• Hyphenation: pu‧sil

pusíl (Badlit spelling ᜉᜓᜐᜒᜎ᜔)

1. gun; firearm
2. pistol

   Synonym: pistola

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:pusil.

• → Western Bukidnon Manobo: pusil

• pulis

Borrowed from Spanish fusil (“rifle”).

• IPA^(key): /puˈsil/ [puˈsil]
• Hyphenation: pu‧sil

pusíl (Kur-itan spelling ᜉᜓᜐᜒᜎ᜔)

1. gun; firearm

   Synonym: paltog

Borrowed from Cebuano pusil, from Spanish fusil (“rifle”).

pusil

1. gun