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"Terms with Italian translations",
"Terms with Norwegian Bokmål translations",
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"en:People"
],
"derived": [
{
"word": "cuss word"
},
{
"word": "give a tinker's cuss"
},
{
"word": "tinker's cuss"
},
{
"word": "what the cuss"
}
],
"etymology_number": 1,
"etymology_text": "American English dialect pronunciation of curse. For the phonetic development compare American ass (“buttocks”) for other English arse.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "cusses",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
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"args": {},
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"name": "en-noun"
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],
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"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"American English",
"English colloquialisms"
],
"glosses": [
"A curse."
],
"links": [
[
"curse",
"curse"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(chiefly US, colloquial) A curse."
],
"tags": [
"US",
"colloquial"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"American English",
"English colloquialisms"
],
"glosses": [
"A curse word."
],
"links": [
[
"curse word",
"curse word"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(chiefly US, colloquial) A curse word."
],
"tags": [
"US",
"colloquial"
]
}
],
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{
"ipa": "/kʌs/"
},
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"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-cuss.wav",
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},
{
"rhymes": "-ʌs"
}
],
"word": "cuss"
}
{
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"English clippings",
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English terms with assimilation of historic /ɹ/",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries",
"Rhymes:English/ʌs",
"Rhymes:English/ʌs/1 syllable",
"en:People"
],
"etymology_number": 2,
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"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "customer"
},
"expansion": "Clipping of customer",
"name": "clipping"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Clipping of customer.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "cusses",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
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{
"args": {},
"expansion": "cuss (plural cusses)",
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{
"categories": [
"American English",
"English colloquialisms",
"English dated terms",
"English terms with quotations",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1922, A. M. Chisholm, A Thousand a Plate:",
"text": "Seemingly here was an intruder who was violating custom. Moreover, the partners had come to look upon this exceedingly rich district as their exclusive property. And so their indignation was extreme.\n\"The low-down, ornery cuss!\" said Dobbs. \"The nerve of him, crowdin' in on us, just as if there wasn't lots of other places for him to go!\"",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1936, F.J. Thwaites, chapter I, in The Redemption, Sydney: H. John Edwards, page 6:",
"text": "\"Proud young cuss, aren't you?\" \"Apparently - I don't know.\" \"Or is it you are just pig-headed?\"",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1949, “Happy Talk”, in Oscar Hammerstein II (lyrics), Richard Rogers (music), South Pacific:",
"text": "Talk about the boy saying to the girl,\n“Golly, baby, I’m a lucky cuss!”",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2012, Robin Oakley, Britain and Ireland's Top 100 Racehorses of All Time:",
"text": "Dawn Run's owner, Charmian Hill, who had insisted on trainer Paddy Mullins 'jocking off' his son Tony and putting up Jonjo O'Neill to ride her in the Gold Cup, was an awkward cuss too.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A fellow, person."
],
"links": [
[
"fellow",
"fellow"
],
[
"person",
"person"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(dated, chiefly US, colloquial) A fellow, person."
],
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"US",
"colloquial",
"dated"
]
}
],
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{
"ipa": "/kʌs/"
},
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},
{
"rhymes": "-ʌs"
}
],
"word": "cuss"
}
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