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interjectionnounverbattested in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//ˈkɜːsɪz//
  • United States//ˈkɝsɪz//

Expression of annoyance or frustration.

interjection

  1. 1

    datedExpression of annoyance or frustration.

    Fisherman: '1 PLAY COIN FOR 100 GOLD, A BOUNTIFUL TRADE, IF I'D BE SO BOLD!' / Shovel Knight: 'NOT NOW' / FISHERMAN: 'CURSES! THE THOUGHT OF THIS BURDEN UPSETS ME, BUT THAT'S WHAT A LIFE OF ADVENTURING GETS ME!'

noun

  1. 1

    Also a form of curseplural of curse

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of cursethird-person singular simple present indicative of curse

The neighbouring pagesAlphabetical order follows the rules of the language, not byte values: an accent decides only between two otherwise identical words, and Spanish files Ñ as a letter of its own.

Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).