nuss

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See also: Nuss, Nuß, and Nùss

English

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Verb

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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.

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Estonian

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Etymology

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Clipping of nussima.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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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

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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