Cuss
verb
To use rude or offensive language.
He got angry and started cussing.
Often appears as...
- start to cuss
- cuss out
Usage tips
Informal
Colloquial
noun
A word said when one is angry.
He let out a cuss when he hit his finger with the hammer.
Often appears as...
- let out a cuss
- a cuss word
Usage tips
Informal
Colloquial
noun
A person considered to be unpleasant or difficult.
He's an old cuss, but we love him anyway.
Often appears as...
- old cuss
- stubborn cuss
Usage tips
Informal, Disapproving
Idiomatic
verb
To use rude or offensive language.
He got angry and started cussing.
Often appears as...
- start to cuss
- cuss out
Usage tips
Informal
Colloquial
noun
A word said when one is angry.
He let out a cuss when he hit his finger with the hammer.
Often appears as...
- let out a cuss
- a cuss word
Usage tips
Informal
Colloquial
noun
A person considered to be unpleasant or difficult.
He's an old cuss, but we love him anyway.
Often appears as...
- old cuss
- stubborn cuss
Usage tips
Informal, Disapproving
Idiomatic
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Emotional Tones
Using 'cuss' can convey anger or frustration, often in a heated conversation.
He was so frustrated he started to cuss loudly.
Pro Tip 2/3Social Implications
'Cuss' can be seen as disrespectful or rude, especially in formal or public settings.
Cussing at the meeting shocked everyone.
Pro Tip 3/3Confrontational Usage
When someone 'cusses out' another, it means they are verbally attacking them with swear words.
He cussed out the referee for the bad call.
Pro Tip 1/3Emotional Tones
Using 'cuss' can convey anger or frustration, often in a heated conversation.
He was so frustrated he started to cuss loudly.
Pro Tip 2/3Social Implications
'Cuss' can be seen as disrespectful or rude, especially in formal or public settings.
Cussing at the meeting shocked everyone.
Pro Tip 3/3Confrontational Usage
When someone 'cusses out' another, it means they are verbally attacking them with swear words.
He cussed out the referee for the bad call.
Pro Tip 1/3Emotional Tones
Using 'cuss' can convey anger or frustration, often in a heated conversation.
He was so frustrated he started to cuss loudly.
Pro Tip 2/3Social Implications
'Cuss' can be seen as disrespectful or rude, especially in formal or public settings.
Cussing at the meeting shocked everyone.
Pro Tip 3/3Confrontational Usage
When someone 'cusses out' another, it means they are verbally attacking them with swear words.
He cussed out the referee for the bad call.
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Video examples
Mick Ebeling: The...
that allows them to project a light onto any surface and then, with a laser pointer, draw on it, and it just registers the negative space. So they go around and do art installations like this. All the things that go up there, they said there's a life cycle. First it starts with the sexual organs, then it starts with cuss words,
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Reel Talk Ep. 6 - Tuna...
down real hard it's easy as has seen on TV yes if you said what are we doing this for still well I know what I woke up I learned this week that if I want to go out catch bluefin - and I got to keep my anchor off of other people's boats how many things are going awry start screaming cussing and get the bleep
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Chris Abani on the...
my humanity back at me. But if you're like me, my humanity is more like a window. I don't really see it, I don't pay attention to it until there's, you know, like a bug that's dead on the window. Then suddenly I see it, and usually, it's never good. It's usually when I'm cussing in traffic
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The health benefits of...
while they're in the hospital. So we start with a card trick, fan the deck so he can pick. But as soon as the nurse approaches with the needle to flush the port, he starts screaming and cussing like no six-year-old I'd ever heard in my life. So we say, "Hey, should we come back later?"
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Why can parrots talk? -...
or rattling off cuss words at zoo-goers, parrots are constantly astounding us— as they have been for millennia. But our fascination with parrots has also made them vulnerable. Sought by poachers and pet traders, while losing their habitats to deforestation,
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Safari Live - Day 154 PIPE...
we just need to keep on looking in front of us and look for any heads they just pop up but he is flicking and as we come towards them so we always just listening ahead and the animals if we do get to cuss will always warn us with a bit of a
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Prison Family PIPE National...
individuals we're doing a I swear it's a god I'm cussing you out later on but Terrell's kind of power sets her apart from the other inmates of Hale and takes a form unique to the woman's world she is the head of a prison pseudo family
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Mapping wilderness PIPE...
prehistory that connect us to Eternity and remember a time before modern man every year we pole ourselves across the Okavango Delta in northern Botswana these two hundred and twenty mile research expeditions take a cuss take us
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Jewel of Namibia PIPE Nat...
I'm so proud that I didn't cuss on camera elephants have their ways to let you know who's in charge this is a scene from another day when I was outside the
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Shaka Senghor: Why your...
And then he texts back, and he asks me why was I cussing him out. And I said, "LOL FU," as in, I finally understand. And so fast forward three years,
Video examples
Mick Ebeling: The...
that allows them to project a light onto any surface and then, with a laser pointer, draw on it, and it just registers the negative space. So they go around and do art installations like this. All the things that go up there, they said there's a life cycle. First it starts with the sexual organs, then it starts with cuss words,
Video examples
Reel Talk Ep. 6 - Tuna...
down real hard it's easy as has seen on TV yes if you said what are we doing this for still well I know what I woke up I learned this week that if I want to go out catch bluefin - and I got to keep my anchor off of other people's boats how many things are going awry start screaming cussing and get the bleep
Video examples
Chris Abani on the...
my humanity back at me. But if you're like me, my humanity is more like a window. I don't really see it, I don't pay attention to it until there's, you know, like a bug that's dead on the window. Then suddenly I see it, and usually, it's never good. It's usually when I'm cussing in traffic
Video examples
The health benefits of...
while they're in the hospital. So we start with a card trick, fan the deck so he can pick. But as soon as the nurse approaches with the needle to flush the port, he starts screaming and cussing like no six-year-old I'd ever heard in my life. So we say, "Hey, should we come back later?"
Video examples
Why can parrots talk? -...
or rattling off cuss words at zoo-goers, parrots are constantly astounding us— as they have been for millennia. But our fascination with parrots has also made them vulnerable. Sought by poachers and pet traders, while losing their habitats to deforestation,
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 154 PIPE...
we just need to keep on looking in front of us and look for any heads they just pop up but he is flicking and as we come towards them so we always just listening ahead and the animals if we do get to cuss will always warn us with a bit of a
Video examples
Prison Family PIPE National...
individuals we're doing a I swear it's a god I'm cussing you out later on but Terrell's kind of power sets her apart from the other inmates of Hale and takes a form unique to the woman's world she is the head of a prison pseudo family
Video examples
Mapping wilderness PIPE...
prehistory that connect us to Eternity and remember a time before modern man every year we pole ourselves across the Okavango Delta in northern Botswana these two hundred and twenty mile research expeditions take a cuss take us
Video examples
Jewel of Namibia PIPE Nat...
I'm so proud that I didn't cuss on camera elephants have their ways to let you know who's in charge this is a scene from another day when I was outside the
Video examples
Shaka Senghor: Why your...
And then he texts back, and he asks me why was I cussing him out. And I said, "LOL FU," as in, I finally understand. And so fast forward three years,
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Quote examples
Andy Biersack
American Musician
I think, on any given day, somebody could help out a homeless person and cuss out somebody that cut them off in traffic, and I think that everybody has that inside them: it's just how you live that balance - so I think everybody is 'Wretched and Divine.
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Zendaya
American Actress
My parents got me in trouble when I was in school because someone was getting bullied, and I didn't do anything about it. I just watched it happen and then came to the school, and I got cussed out for not helping and not being a part of it.
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Lane Kiffin
American Coach
If I'm cussing at you, swearing at you, calling you demeaning names, are you really thinking about that last play? Am I really helping you get better? Or am I just making myself feel good by demeaning you? I've really never understood it.
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Rasheed Wallace
American Basketball Player
When I was playing, I had that passion and fire, cussing everybody out, but I had the opportunity to change that being out on the floor. But now that I'm coach, I can still have my passion, but I just have to tone it down.
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Tony Hale
American Actor
There are things that can only be said with a good string of cussing. I'm definitely fond of a few choice words. They say things that nothing else can say. Gotta love it.
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Dr. Disrespect
Celebrity
One of the things I pride myself on is that I don't cuss. It's extremely rare, but when I do it kind of adds to the character.
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Michaela Coel
Chewing Gum Dreams' should make you look twice at the girl shouting on the bus and not just cuss her off from your life.
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Kevin Hart
American Actor
My mom was very strict. She didn't let me watch anything rated R or anything with cussing.
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Harry S Truman
American President
This administration is going to be cussed and discussed for years to come.
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Amber Tamblyn
American Actress
People in real life cuss God out when they're angry. That's all real.
Quote examples
Andy Biersack
American Musician
I think, on any given day, somebody could help out a homeless person and cuss out somebody that cut them off in traffic, and I think that everybody has that inside them: it's just how you live that balance - so I think everybody is 'Wretched and Divine.
Quote examples
Zendaya
American Actress
My parents got me in trouble when I was in school because someone was getting bullied, and I didn't do anything about it. I just watched it happen and then came to the school, and I got cussed out for not helping and not being a part of it.
Quote examples
Lane Kiffin
American Coach
If I'm cussing at you, swearing at you, calling you demeaning names, are you really thinking about that last play? Am I really helping you get better? Or am I just making myself feel good by demeaning you? I've really never understood it.
Quote examples
Rasheed Wallace
American Basketball Player
When I was playing, I had that passion and fire, cussing everybody out, but I had the opportunity to change that being out on the floor. But now that I'm coach, I can still have my passion, but I just have to tone it down.
Quote examples
Tony Hale
American Actor
There are things that can only be said with a good string of cussing. I'm definitely fond of a few choice words. They say things that nothing else can say. Gotta love it.
Quote examples
Dr. Disrespect
Celebrity
One of the things I pride myself on is that I don't cuss. It's extremely rare, but when I do it kind of adds to the character.
Quote examples
Michaela Coel
Chewing Gum Dreams' should make you look twice at the girl shouting on the bus and not just cuss her off from your life.
Quote examples
Kevin Hart
American Actor
My mom was very strict. She didn't let me watch anything rated R or anything with cussing.
Quote examples
Harry S Truman
American President
This administration is going to be cussed and discussed for years to come.
Quote examples
Amber Tamblyn
American Actress
People in real life cuss God out when they're angry. That's all real.
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