cuss
/kʌs
/informal
noun
1An annoying or stubborn person or animal: he was certainly an unsociable cuss...
- Which reminds me: he could be a stubborn cuss, too.
- A stubborn cuss, who would never accept what I didn't believe, and could not be beaten into believing it, or appearing to believe it.
- Stubborn cusses that they are, those dogmatic mathematicians insisted on using the old, messy value of pi.
2 another term for curse (sense 2 of the noun).‘Wizards,’ I swore, making the average word a cuss....
- I groaned when my head hit the table and a long stream of cusses came flying out under my breath.
- Jamie let a string of cusses fly before realising who'd knocked into him.
verb
another term for curse (sense 2 of the verb).Except they were so loud we couldn't hear Pink Floyd and various people started swearing and cussing....
- I was cussing them and swearing never to watch the show again because the fix was in.
- They drew swords, and fought fiercely, cussing and insulting each other as swiftly as they threw blows.
