cuss

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /kʌs/    美 /kʌs/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A curse. US,colloquial
  2. A fellow, person. US,colloquial,dated
    — Seemingly here was an intruder who was violating custom. Moreover, the partners had come to look upon this exceedingly rich district as their exclusive property. And so their indignation was extreme. "The low-down, ornery cuss!" said Dobbs. "The nerve of him, crowdin' in on us, just as if there wasn't lots of other places for him to go!"
  3. A curse word. US,colloquial
  4. Fellow, person. (From the replacement of a derogatory or affectionate cuss (“curse word”) like son of a bitch with the word cuss.) US,colloquial
    — Biggest rascal [...] and the most likable cuss I've run up against in a year.
动词 v.
  1. To use cursing, to use bad language, to speak profanely. US,colloquial
    — I went over the fence like a shot, and ran like one o'clock for the trap, cussing and swearing as I went.

词形变化

cusses present,singular,third-person cussing participle,present cussed participle,past cussed past cusses plural cusses plural

词汇关系

衍生词
cuss box cuss jar cuss word give a tinker's cuss tinker's cuss what the cuss

词源

词源 1
An American English variant of curse; for a similar phonetic development, compare ass (“buttocks”), from arse, in which the r was originally pronounced (as in curse).
词源 2
Clipping of customer.
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