cuss

IPA: kˈʌs

(chiefly US, colloquial) To use cursing, to use bad language, to speak profanely.

Examples of "cuss" in Sentences

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.
(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.