nuss

See also: Nuss, Nuß, and Nùss

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /nʌs/
• Rhymes: -ʌs

Verb

nuss (third-person singular simple present nusses, present participle nussing, simple past and past participle nussed)

1. Pronunciation spelling of nurse.
   • 1851, Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth, Shannodale ..., page 125:

     Miss Mar'get wur the first chile as ever I nussed, forty years ago come this next August

   • 1879, W[illiam] S[chwenck] Gilbert, Arthur Sullivan, composer, “A Many Years Ago”, in H.M.S. Pinafore;  […], San Francisco: Bacon & Company,  […], →OCLC:

     Two tender babes I nussed

   • 1996, T. Lindsay Baker, Julie Philips Baker, The WPA Oklahoma Slave Narratives, University of Oklahoma Press, →ISBN, page 28:

     I nussed all his chillun and den later, 'long come dey's chillun and I nussed dem, and I'se even nussed de great gran 'chillun.

Anagrams

• USNs, snus, suns

Estonian

Etymology

Clipping of nussima.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈnusʲː/

Noun

nuss (genitive nussi, partitive nussi)

1. (vulgar) an act of sexual intercourse
2. (vulgar, colloquial) a pain in the ass; something that causes anger and frustration

Declension

Declension of nuss (ÕS type 22e/riik, length gradation)
		singular	plural
nominative		nuss	nussid
accusative	nom.
	gen.	nussi
genitive			nusside
partitive		nussi	nusse nussisid
illative		nussi nussisse	nussidesse nussesse
inessive		nussis	nussides nusses
elative		nussist	nussidest nussest
allative		nussile	nussidele nussele
adessive		nussil	nussidel nussel
ablative		nussilt	nussidelt nusselt
translative		nussiks	nussideks nusseks
terminative		nussini	nussideni
essive		nussina	nussidena
abessive		nussita	nussideta
comitative		nussiga	nussidega