cuss

cuss Definition

cuss (kus)

noun

a curse
☆ a person or animal, esp. one regarded as odd or annoying: used humorously or contemptuously

Etymology: < curse; cuss < ? customer

transitive verb, intransitive verb

Informal to curse

Related Forms:

cuss Usage Examples

Possessives

tinker: Normally, you could not give a tinker's cuss about minority party debates.

Adjective modifier

awkward: Bit of an awkward cuss - decided early on he wanted to be an engineer rather than a farmer.

Modifies a noun

cuss Quotes

This bloody town's a bloody cussö No bloody trains, no bloody bus, And no one cares for bloody usö In bloody Orkney.

—Blair, Hamish pseudonym of Andrew James Fraser Blair

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