Cussing vs Provoked - What's the difference?
cussing | provoked |
The act of one who cusses, or uses bad language.
* 1888 , Hubert Howe Bancroft, California Inter Pocula
(provoke)
to cause someone to become annoyed or angry.
* Bible, Eph. vi. 4
to bring about a reaction.
* J. Burroughs
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(obsolete) To appeal.
As verbs the difference between cussing and provoked
is that cussing is present participle of lang=en while provoked is past tense of provoke.As a noun cussing
is {{cx|US|lang=en}} The act of one who cusses, or uses bad language.cussing
English
Verb
(head)Noun
(en noun)- the whining Yankee cussings , the spluttering Dutchman's swearings, and the imitative intonations of the Celestial.
Anagrams
*provoked
English
Verb
(head)provoke
English
Verb
(provok)- Don't provoke the dog; it may try to bite you.
- Ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath.
- To the poet the meaning is what he pleases to make it, what it provokes in his own soul.
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- (Dryden)