Noun
a man who has never uttered a single cussVerb
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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Noun
And, when the alarm wails hours before dawn, human cusses of angry protest join the chorus
of budget appliances failing before their time.—Virginia Konchan, The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2024 My grandmother extended a ladder up into this tough old cuss of a tree and climbed up, at some risk, to pick the bulging fruit.—Jim Meddleton, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 May 2024
Verb
Dottie, who yet lives, and who cussed out Earl at his own funeral, drunk and angry, both for his dying and for that man’s outstanding meanness, should never be confused with Dollie, Ganny’s friend who, like Ganny, will never breathe another breath.—Joseph Earl Thomas, Harper's Magazine, 28 Feb. 2025 An ordained elder in the Presbyterian Church, Robertson, 66, wears her wavy white hair short, cusses freely and greets by name the homeless of Sulphur, a city of some 20,000 people.—Sharon Lerner, ProPublica, 17 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for cuss
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