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Chuse vs Chupse - What's the difference?

chuse | chupse |

As verbs the difference between chuse and chupse

is that chuse is while chupse is (barbados) to produce such a sound.

As an interjection chupse is

(barbados) the sound produced by sucking air between the teeth, expressing displeasure, incredulity, etc.

chuse

English

Verb

(chus)
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  • * 1739 , A Treatise of Human Nature: Book II :
  • Secondly, When in exerting any passion in action, we chuse means insufficient for the design'd end, and deceive ourselves in our judgment of causes and effects.
  • *1817 , :
  • "Now, Kitty, you may cough as much as you chuse ," said Mr. Bennet
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  • chupse

    English

    Interjection

    (en interjection)
  • (Barbados) The sound produced by sucking air between the teeth, expressing displeasure, incredulity, etc.
  • * 1970 , Frank A Collymore, Notes for a glossary of words and phrases of Barbadian dialect?
  • There is the small effortless chupse of indifference; the thin hard chupse of mere disdain; the long, liquid, vibrating chupse which shakes the rafters and expresses every kind of defiance."
  • * 1972 , Edward Samuel Maynard, Endogamy Among Barbadian Immigrants to New York City
  • What was apparent, however, was a certain apologetic attitude such as "he's an American (chupse ) but he's all right."
  • * 1990 , Harry S Pariser, The Adventure Guide to Barbados?
  • The "chupse ," a sound formed by sucking in the air between one's teeth, may convey disgust, boredom, frustration, or a combination of all three.
  • * 2006 , Willi Chen, Under the Perfume Tree
  • A child's sucking of his teeth, known classically as a Bajan "chupse ", when done in response to a parent's order to do something...

    Verb

  • (Barbados) To produce such a sound.
  • * 1973 , Caribbean Artists Movement, Savacou
  • But Elmina only chupse and say, "But Grandma, I like James, though. I can't help it, I like he bad...
  • * 1991 , Timothy Callender, It So Happen?
  • His mother chupse and reach for her pocketbook. "I going give yuh," she say, "And I going wait and see what happen."
  • * 1994 , Peter Morgan, The Life and Times of Errol Barrow?
  • Whenever he did get this message Crawford would 'chupse' and say, "That mad man upstairs? Man, don't pay him no mind."