Cuss

//kʌs//

Synonyms for "cuss" (59 found)

Ranked by relevance and common usage.

Closest matches (12)

curse chap bad word blaspheme bloke boy buck

Noun(4 words)

bad word blighter bloke chap

Verb(1 words)

blaspheme

Strong matches (18)

Noun(6 words)

curse curse word expletive fella feller fellow

Verb(1 words)

curse

curse and swear cuss word damn dirty name dirty word dysphemism dysphemize epithet execrate expletive fellow

Related words (29)

foul invective galoot gent guy he imprecate man naughty word no no no-no oath obscenity pest profane oath scatologize swear swearword talk dirty

Noun(9 words)

gadfly gent lad oath pest pesterer swear word swearing swearword

Verb(2 words)

imprecate swear

Related word relations

OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.

7 relation types

More general

11 entries

express give tongue to male male person persecutor profanity tormenter tormentor utter verbalise verbalize

Synonyms

4 entries

blaspheme chap curse pest

derived

12 entries

cuss out cuss word cusser cussfest cussingly cussy give a tinker's cuss mooncusser noncussing outcuss tinker's cuss what the cuss

etymologically related_to

1 entries

curse

has context

1 entries

related to

7 entries

bad language curse curse word cursing fellow person profanely

similar

1 entries

blaspheme

Translations

25 translations across 19 languages.

Bulgarian

2 entries

проклинам verb (to use cursing)
ругая verb (to use cursing)

Czech

2 entries

klít verb (to use cursing)
nadávat verb (to use cursing)

Danish

1 entries

bande verb (to use cursing)

Dutch

1 entries

vervloeken verb (to use cursing)

Esperanto

2 entries

blasfemi verb (to use cursing)
sakri verb (to use cursing)

Finnish

1 entries

kiroilla verb (to use cursing)

French

1 entries

jurer verb (to use cursing)

German

1 entries

fluchen verb (to use cursing)

Greek

2 entries

βλαστημώ verb (to use cursing)
βλασφημώ verb (to use cursing)

Italian

1 entries

bestemmiare verb (to use cursing)

Khiamniungan Naga

1 entries

thíe verb (to use cursing)

Norwegian Bokmål

1 entries

banne verb (to use cursing)

Norwegian Nynorsk

1 entries

banna verb (to use cursing)

Polish

2 entries

bluzgać verb (to use cursing)
bluznąć verb (to use cursing)

Portuguese

2 entries

falar palavrão verb (to use cursing)
falar palavrões verb (to use cursing)

Russian

1 entries

руга́ться verb (to use cursing)

Spanish

1 entries

palabrotear verb (to use cursing)

Swedish

1 entries

svära verb (to use cursing)

Turkish

1 entries

küfretmek verb (to use cursing)

Sample sentences

15 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

Tom doesn't like it when people cuss in front of his children.

Source: tatoeba (1094411)

What a cuss word!

Source: tatoeba (1740293)

Don't cuss!

Source: tatoeba (2669328)

I don't like it when people cuss in front of my children.

Source: tatoeba (7117951)

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