sus

From Dutch zus, shortening of zuster. Equivalent to a shortening of suster.


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138 […] Äs seï ä schwarzä Maa mitemä Huet gsii, aber uuni Chopf. «Ich haa ds Büechli nid beï mer, sus hett nä aagsprocha...», heï dr Pfarrer Zwyfel gsäit. Gsii isch es dr Ggaueler.

1968/1969, Alois Senti with Robert Wildhaber, “Die Sagen der Gemeinde Flums [The sagas of the municipality Flums]”, in Schweizerisches Archiv für Volkskunde, volume 65, number 3/4, Schweizerische Gesellschaft für Volkskunde, published 1969, Vum Ggaueler, page 154:

138 […] It has [reportedly] been a black man with a hat but without a head. “I don't have this booklet on me, otherwise I would have talked to him...” has pastor Zwyfel [reportedly] said. It has been the Ggaueler.

Wägemä äinzigä Moul hät aber niemert müügä nämis säägä. Sus hett jo dr Leïrer Aberli schu än Uusreïd gfundä, ass er nid hett müessä guu.

1970, Alois Senti, Häxäwärch: Sibä Gschichtä im Flumsertiäläggt, Mels: Verlag des Sarganserländers, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 27:

But nobody wanted to say anything [only] because of a single time. Otherwise the teacher Aberli would have found an excuse anyway so that he wouldn't have had to go.

From Middle High German sus. Compare German sonst.

susch (alternative)
suscht (alternative)


sus

Inherited from Latin sūsum. Compare Romanian sus.

susu (alternative)
ãnsus (alternative)
nsus (alternative)
nsusu (alternative)


sus

used as an expression of anger, frustration or disbelief


sus

rush (pleasurable sensation experienced after use of a stimulant)

head

sus n (singular definite suset, plural indefinite sus)

suset (definite singular)
sus (indefinite plural)
sus (indefinite nominative singular)
suset (definite nominative singular)
sus (indefinite nominative plural)
susene (definite nominative plural)
sus' (genitive indefinite singular)
susets (definite genitive singular)
sus' (genitive indefinite plural)
susenes (definite genitive plural)

From the verb suse (“to hiss, whistle”), of imitative origin, similar to German sausen (“to whizz”).

onomatopoeic

imitative


sus

imitative


sus

The committee […] said ‘sus’ had acquired a symbolic significance out of all proportion to its significance as a criminal charge.

2002, Simon James, British Government: A Reader in Policy Making, page 84:

(UK, informal) Suspicion (in terms of a sus law).


sus

Even my lame psychic ability told me he'd be pretty sus if he found me pissing on in the lounge room on a week night.

2010, Olwyn Conrau, The Importance of Being Cool, Carindale: Glass House Brooks, page 134:

Everyone had been a bit sus about Mrs Jones and Lana Vilenskaya, so it wasn't surprising that Mrs Jones stood to speak.

2015, Peter King, The Weaving, Wellington: Peter King Publishing:

I'm still really sus about those crocs we found in the drains.

2018, Ron Chinchen, Scent of the Beast, Bloomington: Xlibris:

Suspicious; having suspicions or questions.

Why this should be I will never know except I might be a pretty sus looking geezer or something. They took about six of us who were in the cafe down the nick and dubbed us up in separate peters. After a long while these two bogies came into ...

1972, Frank Norman, The lives of Frank Norman: told in extracts from his autobiographical books Banana boy, Stand on me, Bang to rights, The guntz:

Suspicious; raising or causing people to have suspicions.

That guy is always acting sus with the boys—are you sure he's not gay?

I was acting sus with my friend turns out he's gay I don't think he was joking

2021 September 9, @COGxCam, Twitter, archived from the original on 2023-12-18:

Maybe I’m a sus hetero bro who's been subtly abusive and deserves to be blocked out entirely.

2022, Sean Thor Conroe, Fuccboi, Hachette, →ISBN:

Gf [30] was acting sus around another guy and not sure If im [M20] just overthinking it.

2022 October 31, u/Keggerbev, “(post title)”, in Reddit, r/Advice, archived from the original on 2023-12-18:

I've also heard many instances of him acting sus with girls.

2023 March 9, u/rainbows_are_a_mess, “The Bombay Movie Club”, in Reddit, r/mumbai, archived from the original on 2023-12-17:

Totally not being sus with my controller

2023 August 6, @bridaaah, Twitter, archived from the original on 2023-12-17:

(often humorous) Acting in a borderline sexually inappropriate way, causing others to "suspect" them of being sexually attracted to someone and trying to hide it.

en-adj

sus (comparative more sus or susser, superlative most sus or sussest)

more sus (comparative)
susser (comparative)
most sus (superlative)
sussest (superlative)


sus

yeah, the account posting offensive stuff got sussed.

(transitive, Internet slang) To suspend an account on social media (almost exclusively Twitter/X).

en-verb

sus (third-person singular simple present susses, present participle sussing, simple past and past participle sussed)

susses (present singular third-person)
sussing (participle present)
sussed (participle past)
sussed (past)


sus

You better fuf, and then you better broob, 'cause if you don't broob, you're nothing but a nothing, and then the nothing becomes a nothing, and then your nothing is a joj, and then your nothing is sus […]

2019 June 11, Alfred Coleman III, “Minecraft w/ PaperBoxHouse #2”, in YouTube:

ViV [video in video], lagging or stuttering images to get figures to say nonsense words (“SuS”), became popular. […] What appears as chaos, nonsense, or distortion to someone outside the subculture turns out to be a set of references added on as layers and layers of images. Using rapid forward reverse and word-splice editing to make someone else’s project lag or getting a character to say “SuS” or “JoJ” becomes a form of legible code that has a multiplicity of possible orders.

[2021, Randall Halle, “Cine-Cognition: Collage, Fragmentation, Integration” (chapter 6), in Visual Alterity: Seeing Difference in Cinema, →ISBN, pages 94–95:

(Internet slang, humorous, nonce word) A nonsense word commonly used in YouTube Poop by playing an audio clip forward and in reverse consecutively; said in reference to this editing style, and to describe palindromes and humorously symmetrized images.


sus

(Lagarteiru) Apocopic form of súas (“his, her, its, their”)


sus

Sus siunatkoon!

oh; used only in the expression shown in the example below


sus

first/second-person singular past historic of savoir

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.


sus

choux pastry (a type of light pastry that is used to make profiteroles, éclairs, chouquettes, etc.)

profiterole (a small, hollow case of choux pastry with a filling)

Borrowed from Dutch soes (“choux pastry”).


sus

From Proto-Nuristani *swasā, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *swásā, from Proto-Indo-European *swésōr.


sus

ground squirrel (rodent of the genus Spermophilus)

sus (nominative singular)
susë (nominative plural)
susa (genitive singular)
susów (genitive plural)
susowi (dative singular)
susóm (dative plural)
susu (accusative singular)
susë (accusative plural)
susã (instrumental singular)
susama (instrumental plural)
susu (locative singular)
susach (locative plural)
susu (singular vocative)
susë (plural vocative)

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *sъsьlъ with folk etymology from etymology 2.


sus

sus (nominative singular)
susë (nominative plural)
susa (genitive singular)
susów (genitive plural)
susowi (dative singular)
susóm (dative plural)
sus (accusative singular)
susë (accusative plural)
susã (instrumental singular)
susama (instrumental plural)
susu (locative singular)
susach (locative plural)
susu (singular vocative)
susë (plural vocative)


sus

la-noun

sūs m or f (genitive suis); irregular, third declension

sūs (canonical feminine masculine)
suis (genitive)
sūs (nominative singular)
suēs (nominative plural)
suis (genitive singular)
suum (genitive plural)
suī (dative singular)
suibus (dative plural)
sūbus (dative plural)
subus (dative plural)
suem (accusative singular)
suēs (accusative plural)
sue (ablative singular)
suibus (ablative plural)
sūbus (ablative plural)
subus (ablative plural)
sūs (singular vocative)
suēs (plural vocative)

Romanian: sor (possibly)

Sardinian: sughe, sue

Sassarese: sua, (dialectal) sui

From Proto-Italic *sūs, from Proto-Indo-European *suH-. Compare Ancient Greek ὗς (hûs), Pali sūkara, English swine, sow.


sus

second-person singular imperative of sies


sus

French: sus (obsolete)


sus

Alemannic German: sus, susch, suscht

German: sonst


sus

Orguillaeux coume ùn pouâis sûs v'louss.

1903, Edgar MacCulloch, “Proverbs, Weather Sayings, etc.”, in Guernsey Folk Lore, page 524:


sus

first-person singular preterite of saver


sus

French: sus

Norman: sus


sus

desctree

Middle High German: sus, sust, sunst
Alemannic German: sus, susch, suscht
German: sonst

Related to Proto-West Germanic *swā (“in this manner”), see also Dutch zus.


sus

Zgoła inaczej zachował się pewien młody człowiek bardzo zręcznej postaci, który skoczył jednym susem poprzez głowy towarzyszy i znalazł się tuż nawprost panienki.

1922, Voltaire, chapter 1, in Tadeusz Boy-Żeleński, transl., Prostaczek (L'ingénu):

That was not the behavior of a well-made youth, who, darting himself over the heads of his companions, suddenly stood before Miss Kerkabon.

sus (nominative singular)
susy (nominative plural)
susa (genitive singular)
susów (genitive plural)
susowi (dative singular)
susom (dative plural)
sus (accusative singular)
susy (accusative plural)
susem (instrumental singular)
susami (instrumental plural)
susie (locative singular)
susach (locative plural)
susie (singular vocative)
susy (plural vocative)

Mazurized form of szus, from German Schuss, from Middle High German, from Old High German scuz, from Proto-West Germanic *skuti.


sus

come on! (inducing courage or willpower)


sus

From Old Spanish sus, apocopic form of suso.


sus

plural of su; one's, his, her, its, their (with plural possessee)


sus

tallens sus

a drawn-out, soft, tone-less murmur, like from a wind; sighing, soughing

ett sus gick genom publiken

sus (indefinite nominative singular)
sus (genitive indefinite singular)
suset (definite nominative singular)
susets (definite genitive singular)


sus

From a minced oath clipping of Hesus, from Spanish Jesús.


sus

(international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Susu.


sus

second-person singular imperative of susmak