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Wiss vs Wuss - What's the difference?

wiss | wuss |

Wuss is a alternative form of wiss.



As verbs the difference between wiss and wuss

is that wiss is to know, to understand while wuss is {{only used in|wuss out|lang=en}.

As a noun wuss is

a weak or ineffectual person.

wiss

English

Alternative forms

* wis

Verb

  • (archaic) To know, to understand.
  • * 1652 , Elias Ashmole, Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum :
    • Now with their might they downe me pull, and bring me where they woll, the Blood of myne heart I wiss now causeth both Joy and blisse.
  • * 1874 , Dodsley et al., A Select Collection of Old English Plays :
    • And though that the water be gross and heavy, yet nothing so gross as the earth, I wiss ; therefore by heat it is vapoured up lightly, and in the air maketh clouds and mists.

    wuss

    English

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • (slang) A weak or ineffectual person.
  • * 1976, Univ. N. Carolina, Chapel Hill, Campus Slang typescript
    • Nov. 6 Come on you wuss, hit a basket..! John's a wuss.''
  • * 1982, Cameron Crowe, Fast Times At Ridgemont High (Screenplay)
    • Mike Damone: You are a wuss: part wimp, and part pussy''
  • * 1995, Rob Huizenga, You're Okay, It's Just a Bruise Page 120
    • ...if you got a reputation as a wuss around the league, nobody else would ever even trade for you, or pick you up if you got cut.
  • * 2003, Andrea P. Roberts, Uncovered: 20 Hints for Men from a Bisexual Woman Page 7
    • And finally, don't be a wuss . Have a rich-man's attitude. Men who have money are generally confident and assertive.
  • * 2003, Marc J. Soares, 100 Hikes in Yosemite National Park Page 21
    • ...stop, study the map, and wait for the others. It's better to be a wuss than a stud.

    Synonyms

    * pansy, pushover, weakling, wimp

    Derived terms

    * wuss out

    Verb

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