nuss

• (UK) IPA^(key): /nʌs/
• Rhymes: -ʌs

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.

• USNs, snus, suns

Clipping of nussima.

• IPA^(key): /ˈnusʲː/

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