cuss words
Sailor's colorful vocabulary
Cuss words are profane or vulgar expressions—the words you're not supposed to say.
Cuss is an American dialectal form of curse, and the terms are interchangeable: My grandmother would wash my mouth out if I used cuss words.
The phrase often appears in discussions of language standards: no cuss words allowed in this house.
- obscenitiesGrossly offensive language
- expletivesVulgar exclamations
- profanitiesTaboo vulgar expressions
- vulgaritiesCoarse or indecent expressions
- shitsVulgar term for defecating
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cuss wordsrefined language
Polished, cultivated speech
civil discourse · clean language · euphemisms · formal language · diplomatic language
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Favors from the divine
prayers · benedictions · hymns · psalms · invocations
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