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It's just a guess, but one of the older spellings of poison in the OED1 is puzzen (given as a northern or Scots dialect). Might be the origin. Latin pūs has a stem in the oblique cases of pūr-, so the superlative form of the putative adjective would have to be something like *pūrissimus.
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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