Can "pussy" be pronounced with /ʌ/ (uh)?
My friend insists it can be. Here is a video he provides as a proof (watch it cautiously, brain damage is possible). Is this nonsense or not? Maybe it is a local phenomenon? Or just a speech defect?
Solution 1:
Sure: pussy in the sense of being “full of pus” is pronounced with an /ʌ/, just like in cut, putt, shun, and ton.
The pussycat meaning of pussy, though, always has an /ʊ/ there, just like in put, foot, look, and could.