Definitions for cuss

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Spelling: [kuhs]
IPA: /kʌs/

Cuss is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 15 anagrams from letters in cuss (cssu).

Definitions for cuss

noun

  1. curse word; oath.
  2. a person or animal:

verb (used with object)

  1. to swear at; curse:
  2. to criticize or reprimand in harsh terms (often followed by out):

verb (used without object)

  1. to use profanity; curse; swear.

Origin of cuss

1765-75, Americanism; variant of curse, with loss of r and shortening of vowel, as in ass2, bass2

Examples for cuss

I wanted to kill the enemy and be a roughneck and cuss and spit tobacco, come home and do it again.

And not a man of us, if His Reverence'll excuse me for saying so, dare let out a cuss afore her.

I know a whole string of cuss words an' I can say them as fast as now-I-lay-me.

The cuss turned green and stammered that he wasn't no animal tamer.

He's a deservin' cuss; an' th' Leetle Woman's ben like a mother tew us all.

They won't let anybody cross their line, and they won't say anything—not even when you cuss 'em.

If Republicans win big, Democrats will hang their heads and cuss the Koch brothers.

We brought up before the saddest-lookin' cuss I ever saw out of bed.

There, 'tisn't so bad to cuss and keep it in as to cuss and let it out, is it, sir?'

She can cuss in two or three languages not specified in the guarantee.

Word Value for cuss
Scrable

6

Words with friends

8

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