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Cuts vs Cuss - What's the difference?

cuts | cuss |

As nouns the difference between cuts and cuss

is that cuts is while cuss is a curse or cuss can be a fellow, person.

As verbs the difference between cuts and cuss

is that cuts is (cut) while cuss is to use cursing, to use bad language, to speak profanely.

cuts

English

Noun

(head)
  • Corporal punishment at school.
  • * 1995 , Bill Marsh, Ape'', ''Old Yanconian Daze , page 110,
    • ‘I?ll give you something to keep you awake, McFadyen!’ Ape shouted.
    Meat was taken off to the staff room and given the cuts .
  • * 2001 , Lyall Ford, Poorhouse to Paradise: The Adventures of a Pioneering Family in a North Queensland Country Town , page 55,
    • He reckons that about 80% of the boys in the school regularly received the cuts from Mr Saunders so he didn?t feel as if he was being unduly picked on.
  • * 2008 , Gaynor McGrath, Lemniscate , page 250,
    • My greatest happiness is that Sebastian is having a good time at school and has never been given the cuts .

    Verb

    (head)
  • (cut)

    • Anagrams

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    cuss

    English

    Etymology 1

    American English dialect pronunciation of (m).

    Verb

    (es)
  • To use cursing, to use bad language, to speak profanely.
    • Derived terms
    * cuss out

    Noun

    (cusses)
  • A curse.
  • A curse word.

    • Etymology 2

    .

    Noun

    (cusses)
  • A fellow, person.