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a man who has never uttered a single cuss
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Before her Alzheimer's started progressing, Sandra was a voluble and vibrant person who could command a room, weighing in on any discussion and - perhaps to liven things up - peppering the conversation with cuss words.
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Before her Alzheimer’s started progressing, Sandra was a voluble and vibrant person who could command a room, weighing in on any discussion and — perhaps to liven things up — peppering the conversation with cuss words.
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But the coach is -really excited about his center, Clyde (Bulldog) Turner, an ornery cuss out of Plains, Texas, and Hardin-Simmons College, who played center and linebacker for the Bears from 1940 through ’52.
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Trump's policy seems to be that cuss words are okay only for him.
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The cuss out/butt smack combo of our own childhoods doesn’t cut it anymore, but what’s the new standard?
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Origin and Etymology of cuss
cuss Synonyms
Synonyms
curse, swearword, cussword, dirty word, expletive, four-letter word, obscenity, profanity, swear, vulgarismRelated Words
bawdry, language, scurrility; execration, imprecation, malediction; epithet, name; oathDefinition of cuss
transitive verb
:curse
—often used with out
- got cussed out by his boss
intransitive verb
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cusser
nounExamples of cuss in a Sentence
She started to yell and cuss as soon as she saw him.
the little girl clapped her hands over her ears when her brother started cussing
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Only about 115 men were ever prosecuted under these rules, the vast majority of them for cussing out (depending on the war) either Lincoln, Wilson, or Roosevelt.
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Lamach cussed Street all the way back to the bench.
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Nickerson, who grew up in East Cleveland along with Davidson-Dixon, verbally harassed the officers and cussed them out, Kilbane said.
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What Detroit produced on a mass scale, America reworked one greasy, cussing, knuckle-busting project at a time in garages and driveways.
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Hitting someone, throwing urine, or cussing out the staff costs a boy points—but not for long, since callous and unemotional kids aren’t generally deterred by punishment.
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Who go to church twice a week and know how to cuss well.
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Some retail is healthy enough to poach workers from fast food Fazoli’s, Boston Market offering more perks to retain workers Customers cussed at him and threw ice cream at him.
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The new chair of the Democratic National Committee, Tom Perez, can’t seem to stop cussing in public.
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First Known Use of cuss
1768
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cuss
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Definition of cuss for English Language Learners
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: to use offensive words when you speak
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