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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a persistently annoying person [syn: pest, blighter, cuss, pesterer, gadfly]
2: a boy or man; "that chap is your host"; "there's a fellow at the door"; "he's a likable cuss"; "he's a good bloke" [syn: chap, fellow, feller, fella, lad, gent, blighter, cuss, bloke]
3: profane or obscene expression usually of surprise or anger; "expletives were deleted" [syn: curse, curse word, expletive, oath, swearing, swearword, cuss] v
1: utter obscenities or profanities; "The drunken men were cursing loudly in the street" [syn: curse, cuss, blaspheme, swear, imprecate]

Merriam Webster's

I. noun Etymology: alteration of curse Date: 1771 1. a. curse 1 b. curse 2 2. fellow 4c II. verb Date: 1768 transitive verb curse — often used with out <got cussed out by his boss> intransitive verb curse • cusser noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. & v. colloq. --n. 1 a curse. 2 usu. derog. a person; a creature. --v.tr. & intr. curse. Phrases and idioms: cuss-word US a swear-word. Etymology: var. of CURSE

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(cusses, cussing, cussed) If someone cusses, they swear at someone or use bad language. (INFORMAL, OLD-FASHIONED) Tosh was known to be a man who would cuss and shout... He rails and cusses at those pop stars. = curse VERB: V, V at n, also V n

Moby Thesaurus

bloke, boy, buck, chap, curse, curse and swear, cuss word, damn, dirty name, dirty word, dysphemism, dysphemize, epithet, execrate, expletive, fellow, foul invective, gent, guy, he, imprecate, man, naughty word, no-no, oath, obscenity, profane oath, scatologize, swear, swearword, talk dirty