nuss

See also: Nuss, Nuß, and Nùss

English

Pronunciation
  • (UK) IPA(key): /nʌs/
  • Rhymes: -ʌs

Verb

nuss (third-person singular simple present nusses, present participle nussing, simple past and past participle nussed)

  1. Eye dialect spelling of nurse.
    • 1851, Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth, Shannodale ..., page 125
      Miss Mar'get wur the first chile as ever I nussed, forty years ago come this next August
    • 1878, Gilbert and Sullivan, "A Many Years Ago", H.M.S. Pinafore
      Two tender babes I nussed
    • 1996, T. Lindsay Baker, Julie Philips Baker, The WPA Oklahoma Slave Narratives, University of Oklahoma Press →ISBN, page 28
      I nussed all his chillun and den later, 'long come dey's chillun and I nussed dem, and I'se even nussed de great gran 'chillun.

Anagrams

Estonian

Etymology

Clipping of nussima.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈnusʲː/

Noun

nuss (genitive nussi, partitive nussi)

  1. (vulgar) an act of sexual intercourse
  2. (vulgar, colloquial) a pain in the ass; something that causes anger and frustration

Declension
Declension of nuss (type riik)
singular plural
nominative nuss nussid
genitive nussi nusside
partitive nussi nusse / nussisid
illative nussi / nussisse nussidesse
inessive nussis nussides
elative nussist nussidest
allative nussile nussidele
adessive nussil nussidel
ablative nussilt nussidelt
translative nussiks nussideks
terminative nussini nussideni
essive nussina nussidena
abessive nussita nussideta
comitative nussiga nussidega
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