Cuss (Noun)
Meaning 1
A boy or man; "that chap is your host"; "there's a fellow at the door"; "he's a likable cuss"; "he's a good bloke".
Classification
Nouns denoting people.
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Meaning 2
A persistently annoying person.
Classification
Nouns denoting people.
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Meaning 3
Profane or obscene expression usually of surprise or anger; "expletives were deleted".
Classification
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents.
Examples
- Her creative writing teacher didn't want to hear her characters using cuss words every five seconds.
- That loud cuss from the street corner startled my little brother.
- The editor took great pains to omit every cuss from the transcript before releasing it to the press.
- It took a lot of effort for him to clean up his act and stop using that cuss every other sentence.
- The local church leader spoke out against the comedian's reliance on the cuss to get laughs.