pussi

Borrowed from Old Swedish pusi, posi (compare modern Swedish påse), from Proto-Germanic *pusô.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpusːi/, [ˈpus̠ːi]
• Rhymes: -usːi
• Hyphenation^(key): pus‧si

pussi

1. bag (small, flexible container for items; made of e.g. paper or plastic, either for packaging or storage, or for carrying, in which case usually smaller than a kassi)
2. (anatomy, zoology, botany) pouch, sac, bag
3. (billiards) pocket
4. (colloquial, in the plural) scrotum
5. (in compounds) Together with certain modifiers used to produce compound terms meaning a person who has a lot of a given characteristic; bag of

   äkäinen (“ill-tempered”) > äkäpussi (“shrew”)

   kiukku (“anger”) > kiukkupussi (“a person who is easily angered”)

   sisu (“willpower, guts”) > sisupussi (“an obstinate person”)

• (bag, pouch, sac): See usage notes at laukku.

• kassi
• laukku
• säkki

• “pussi”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03

• sipsu, upsis

Ultimately from Old Swedish pusi, possibly via Finnish pussi.

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈpusːi/, [ˈpus̠ʲː]
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈpusːi/, [ˈpuʃːi]
• Rhymes: -usʲː, -usːi
• Hyphenation: pus‧si

pussi

1. bag