cuss
IPA: kˈʌs
noun
- (chiefly US, colloquial) A curse.
- (chiefly US, colloquial) A curse word.
- (dated, chiefly US, colloquial) A fellow, person.
verb
- (chiefly US, colloquial) To use cursing, to use bad language, to speak profanely.
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Examples of "cuss" in Sentences
- Cuss in rhyme or, perhaps, haiku.
- These are now dis cussed in turn.
- In the meantime try not to cuss at me.
- That was the bird that cussed him out.
- Daniel, you've cussed twice on this page.
- I'm an ornery cuss and I'm so full of piss.
- He then cursed and cussed at me unexpectedly.
- Answered with a series of cuss words, no more.
- Yeah, I've used "cuss" a few times since seeing it.
- "And the way he can cuss is simply God-awful," Big Bill testified.
- I also loved that they said the word "cuss" in place of any actual cuss word.
- Just ask my boyfriend, who is constantly elbowing me every time I cuss, which is all too often.
- Q: Why did you decide to pepper the word cuss throughout the film; where did that idea come from?
- 'Well,' said she, when I had stopped to look round, 'it's my belief as the cuss is a-workin' now, and'll have to spend itself.
- Federal civilian employees who don't commit felonies and don't cuss out their supervisors pretty much have a guaranteed job with guaranteed wages for life.
- And once I got past calling myself names I would reassure my partner that I was the dumb one and please carry on while I take myself off to the ladies and have a good cuss/cry alone.
- (One of the film's tropes is to have the characters speak in surprisingly salty language, but to replace each four-letter word with the word "cuss," a word substitution reminiscent of Diablo Cody.)
- In Chicago, John Laskowski was charged with disorderly conduct and fined $20 for shouting what the prosecution called cuss words after an operator told him that not only was the line he wanted busy, but also that he couldnt get back the money he had deposited into the pay phone he was using.
- I do appreciate the occasional well-meaning attempts to find sanitized alternative terms that preserve some of the flavor of the old standards, whether it's "cuss" in Fantastic Mr. Fox, "frak" on Battlestar Galactica, "shut the front door" in The Kids Are All Right or, of course, "smurf" on The Smurfs.
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