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# cuss

«cuss» in Mova's school dictionary: **to swear or curse, using rude words** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb (cusses, cussed, cussing); noun (cusses)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (informal) To cuss is to swear or curse, using rude words. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cuss/#m1)

2) (informal, dialect) A cuss is a person, often an awkward or unlucky one: a poor old cuss. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cuss/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

in tales of country folk, a grumbling character swears and carries on

### examples

- He began to cuss when the cart stuck in the mud. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cuss/#x1)
- Don't cuss in front of the little ones. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cuss/#x2)
- That old cuss never stops grumbling. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cuss/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «cuss» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cuss/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.