"whuss" meaning in All languages combined

See whuss on Wiktionary

Contraction [English]

Head templates: {{head|en|contractions}} whuss
  1. Pronunciation spelling of what's, representing African-American Vernacular English. Tags: alt-of, contraction, pronunciation-spelling Alternative form of: what's, representing African-American Vernacular English
    Sense id: en-whuss-en-contraction-hKP~34GS Categories (other): African-American Vernacular English, English pronunciation spellings, English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 98 2
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Noun [English]

Head templates: {{head|en|misspelling}} whuss
  1. Misspelling of wuss. Tags: alt-of, misspelling Alternative form of: wuss
    Sense id: en-whuss-en-noun-DCXnwGH0
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for whuss meaning in All languages combined (2.0kB)

{
  "etymology_number": 1,
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "contractions"
      },
      "expansion": "whuss",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "contraction",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "what's"
        },
        {
          "word": "representing African-American Vernacular English"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "African-American Vernacular English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English pronunciation spellings",
          "parents": [
            "Pronunciation spellings",
            "Terms by orthographic property",
            "Terms by lexical property"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "98 2",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1970, Gil Scott-Heron, The Vulture, New York, N.Y., Cleveland, O.H.: World Publishing Company, page 112",
          "text": "\"We got a meetin',\" Cooly reminded me. ¶ \"Yeah.\" I guess I must have grimaced at the thought. ¶ \"Whuss the problem?\" Spade asked. ¶ \"Nuthin',\" I lied. \"I'm sleepy.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Pronunciation spelling of what's, representing African-American Vernacular English."
      ],
      "id": "en-whuss-en-contraction-hKP~34GS",
      "links": [
        [
          "Pronunciation spelling",
          "pronunciation spelling"
        ],
        [
          "what's",
          "what's#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "contraction",
        "pronunciation-spelling"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "whuss"
}

{
  "etymology_number": 2,
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "misspelling"
      },
      "expansion": "whuss",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "wuss"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "1993, Kevin Walter Johnson, Kevin Walter Johnson, Why Is God Looking for Friends?\n\"You whuss! ... I thought Blake was the only girlyman on the team. I guess there are two.\""
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Misspelling of wuss."
      ],
      "id": "en-whuss-en-noun-DCXnwGH0",
      "links": [
        [
          "wuss",
          "wuss#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "misspelling"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "whuss"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "English contractions",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English misspellings",
    "English non-lemma forms"
  ],
  "etymology_number": 1,
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "contractions"
      },
      "expansion": "whuss",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "contraction",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "what's"
        },
        {
          "word": "representing African-American Vernacular English"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        "African-American Vernacular English",
        "English pronunciation spellings",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1970, Gil Scott-Heron, The Vulture, New York, N.Y., Cleveland, O.H.: World Publishing Company, page 112",
          "text": "\"We got a meetin',\" Cooly reminded me. ¶ \"Yeah.\" I guess I must have grimaced at the thought. ¶ \"Whuss the problem?\" Spade asked. ¶ \"Nuthin',\" I lied. \"I'm sleepy.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Pronunciation spelling of what's, representing African-American Vernacular English."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Pronunciation spelling",
          "pronunciation spelling"
        ],
        [
          "what's",
          "what's#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "contraction",
        "pronunciation-spelling"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "whuss"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English misspellings",
    "English non-lemma forms"
  ],
  "etymology_number": 2,
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "misspelling"
      },
      "expansion": "whuss",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "wuss"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        "English misspellings"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "1993, Kevin Walter Johnson, Kevin Walter Johnson, Why Is God Looking for Friends?\n\"You whuss! ... I thought Blake was the only girlyman on the team. I guess there are two.\""
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Misspelling of wuss."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "wuss",
          "wuss#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "misspelling"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "whuss"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-10 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (a644e18 and edd475d). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.