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Informal .SEE SYNONYMS FOR cuss ON THESAURUS.COM
verb (used without object) to use profanity; curse; swear.
verb (used with object) to swear at; curse: He cussed the pedestrian for getting in his way.
to criticize or reprimand in harsh terms (often followed by out ): The coach cussed out the team for losing.
noun curse word; oath.
a person or animal: a strange but likable cuss.
Origin of cuss 1765–75, Americanism ; variant of curse, with loss of r and shortening of vowel, as in ass2 , bass2 , passel, etc.
OTHER WORDS FROM cuss cusser, noun
WORDS THAT MAY BE CONFUSED WITH cuss curse, cuss Words nearby cuss cuspid, cuspidal, cuspidate, cuspidation, cuspidor, cuss , cussed, cussword, custard, custard apple, custard cream
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Example sentences from the Web for cuss If Republicans win big, Democrats will hang their heads and cuss the Koch brothers.
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I wanted to kill the enemy and be a roughneck and cuss and spit tobacco, come home and do it again.
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He then started to cuss at us, and so forth, and I tried to talk to him to calm him down.
Warren Commission (4 of 26): Hearings Vol. IV (of 15) | The President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy
Her father says it's da—— I was going to say his cuss word, but I guess I won't.
Pray You, Sir, Whose Daughter? | Helen H. Gardener
They glare at each other and begin to talk harsh and cuss each other.
Slave Narratives Vol. XIV. South Carolina, Part 1 | Various
I ain't seen more than one or two that was worth a cuss —not a one I thought was good enough for my girl.
The Man Next Door | Emerson Hough
I don't know him, but Kennedy told me, before he'd swung round, that he was a darned good sort of a cuss .
The Honorable Peter Stirling and What People Thought of Him | Paul Leicester Ford
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British Dictionary definitions for cuss noun a curse; oath
a person or animal, esp an annoying one
verb another word for curse (def. 8), curse (def. 9)
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