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from The Century Dictionary.

  • See cuishes.

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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cuss.

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Examples

  • He quickly served notice on the man from Delaware to "git," and Addicks, flushed with an unbroken chain of victories, as promptly returned the notice with, scrawled across its face, a variation of Rogers 'pet phrase -- for it must be remembered Addicks never "cusses" -- "I'll see you in heaven first."

    Frenzied Finance Vol. 1: The Crime of Amalgamated Thomas William Lawson 1891

  • He "cusses" in the same unholy vernacular, only more vigorously.

    The Canadian Commonwealth 1903

  • Page 34 gracefully as he can, but who "cusses" a little and then gives in, puts up his horse, opens his little store and proceeds to gather in the six-pences and shillings, with which to make the purse for another race with that "skillet headed nigger," Cicero, as in anger and contempt, the aristocratic old man calls his adversary of the plantation turf.

    The old plantation : how we lived in great house and cabin before the war, 1901

  • A few spoilers: the big guy who cusses all the time?

    Welcome, Miners: Jeter Jason Gay 2010

  • And in them days they wa'n't ary a steamboat or ary a trading-post, and we cusses had to live offen salmon-bellies and rabbit-tracks.

    Chapter III 2010

  • BULLETIN!!! democrat cusses – so what else is new – they are all so low-rent why does this surprise anybody?

    Levin swears repeatedly at Goldman hearing 2010

  • But while you're deliberating, I want to give you-all a warning: if that door opens and any one of you cusses lets on there's anything unusual, right here and then I sure start plugging.

    Chapter IV 2010

  • Does Paul want to be viewed eternally as a man with fists the size of tangerines, a man who cusses every other word, who gets beat up by "beefy" dudes at bars?

    Peter Brown Hoffmeister: The Wicked Art of Memoir Making Peter Brown Hoffmeister 2011

  • Andhra Pradesh government has approached Orissa to release 10,000 million cusses of water from the reservoir.

    Orissa turns down Andha Pradesh's water request 2009

  • They knew what they were about, the old cusses, when they put the grub in the lazarette.

    CHAPTER XLIII 2010

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