tuse

tuse

1. Alternative form of tusi

tuse

1. (Quebec, slang, nonstandard) first-person singular present subjunctive of tuer
   • 1973, Michel Tremblay, C't'à ton tour, Laura Cadieux, page 92:

     "J'ai failli retontir à l'asile oubedonc en prison pour rien! Ousqu'y l'est, c'te p'tit sacrament-là, que j'le tuse!" — I almost got myself in the asylum or in prison! Where's that little fucker? I'll kill him!

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2. (Quebec, slang, nonstandard) third-person singular present subjunctive of tuer
   • 1979 (1998 edition), Roch Carrier, Les enfants du bonhomme dans la lune, p. 56:

     "C'est triste de penser qu'on est icitte tranquilles, pas d'chicane, quand de l'autre bord, en Urope, le monde se tuse." — It's sad to think everythin's calm here, no fightin', while over there, in Urope, they're killing each others.

• tues, tués

tuse

1. second-person singular imperative of tusir

From Latin tussis, tussem, from Proto-Indo-European *tud-ti-s- (“cough”), from *(s)tewd-, from *(s)tew- (“to push, hit”).

tuse f (uncountable)

1. cough

• tuși

tuse

1. inflection of tusar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative