wuss
substantivoverboatestado nos diálogos
- Reino Unido//wɵs//
- Austrália//wʊs//
- Escócia//wʉs//
A weak, ineffectual, cowardly, or timid person.
substantivo
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calãoA weak, ineffectual, cowardly, or timid person.
1976, Univ. N. Carolina, Chapel Hill, Campus Slang typescript Nov. 6 Come on you wuss, hit a basket..! John's a wuss.
You are a wuss: part wimp, and part pussy
...if you got a reputation as a wuss around the league, nobody else would ever even trade for you, or pick you up if you got cut.
`Fatty's under the thumb. Yeah it's not hard to see who wears the pants in that family. The wuss.'
Etimologia
1976–1981 in US college slang. Perhaps abbreviated from wussy, or blend of wimp and puss. Compare earlier wussy.
verbo
- 1
Only used in wuss out
Formas
- plural
- wusses
- pretérito
- wussed
- particípio passado
- wussed
- gerúndio
- wussing
- 3.ª pessoa do singular
- wusses
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