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Cussedness

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Ungainliness; perversity, an evil temper; malice prepense. Halliwell gives cuss = surly.

“The turkey-cock is just as likely as not to trample on the young turkeys and smash them, or to split their skulls by a savage dig of his powerful beak. Whether this is ‘cussednessʹ pure and simple … has not been satisfactorily determined.”—Daily News, December 22nd, 1885.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Curtain (The)
Curtain
Curtain Lecture
Curtal Friar
Curtana
Curthose
Curtise
Curtmantle
Curule Chair
Curzon Street (London)
Cussedness
Custard
Custard Coffin
Customer
Custos Rotulorum (keeper of the rolls)
Cut
Cut
Cut Blocks with a Razor (To)
Cut neither Nails nor Hair at Sea
Cut Off with a Shilling
Cut out