pus
English · Español · Français · Deutsch · Italiano · Português · Română · Thesaurus
AI In plain words
Writing a short explanation…
Written by a house AI from the entry below, in your language. The entry itself is the source.
pus¹
- /pʌs/ US, UK
- /pʊs/ Northern England
Sounds like puss (without the foot–strut split) · Rhymes with -ʌs
Where it comes from
From Middle English pus (15th c.), a borrowing from Latin pus (“pus”). Widely displaced quitter and atter in this sense.
noun pura · puss
- A whitish-yellow or yellow substance composed primarily of dead white blood cells and dead pyogenic bacteria, normally found in regions of bacterial infection. Pus was seeping out of the wound.
verb pusses · pussing · pussed · puss
- To emit pus. For quotations using this term, see Citations:pus.
PUS²
noun
- Initialism of permanent undersecretary
PUs³
noun
- plural of PU
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: suppuration, purulence, sanies, ichor, festering, inoculable, muco, matter, purulent exudate, exudate, discharge, empyema, mucopus, pyuria, purulency, pustule
Translations
Every language
noun fluid found in regions of infection
| Español | pus, podre |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 고름 goreum |
| 日本語 | 膿 umi, 膿 nō |
| 中文 | 膿 /脓 nóng |
| हिन्दी | पीब pīb, मवाद mavād, पस pas, पीप pīp, पूय pūy |
| Kiswahili | usaha |
| Português | pus |
| Français | pus |
| Deutsch | Eiter |
| Italiano | pus |
| Ελληνικά | πύον pýon |
| Română | puroi |
| Русский | гной gnoj |
| Tiếng Việt | mủ |
| العربية | قَيْح qayḥ, صَدِيد ṣadīd, مِدَة mida |
| עברית | מֻגְלָה muglá |
Talk about this word "pus." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/pus. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. pus. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/pus "pus." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/pus.Cite this
@misc{pus_2026,
title = {pus},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/pus},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
