Su(ss)とは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA^(key): /sʌs/
• 韻: -ʌs
• Homophone: sus

名詞

suss (複数形 susses)

1. Alternative form of soss (“miry place”)

語源 2

Clipping of suspicious.

形容詞

suss (comparative more suss, superlative most suss)

1. (Britain, Australia, New Zealand, US, colloquial) Suspicious.
   • 2001, Mo Hayder, The Treatment, 2008, Bantam, UK, page 244,

     ‘Yes – OK, OK. Try not to struggle, Tracey. It just makes you look even more suss.’

   • 2009, Barbara Ward Smith, Dead Centre: Murder Mystery, AuthorHouse, UK, page 191,

     I think it was Amber Johnson dressed up said Marc, but its proving it, we don′t have much to go on according to her said Jan her friend has been driving her car, yes very convenient said Marc and it′s even more suss that this friend has gone on holiday, did she ever give us the name of this mystical friend? Asked Jan.

名詞

suss (uncountable)

1. (Britain) Suspicious behaviour; the act of loitering with intent.

関連する語

• suss law

動詞

suss (三人称単数 現在形 susses, 現在分詞 sussing, 過去形および過去分詞形 sussed)

1. (transitive, Britain, obsolete) To arrest for suspicious behaviour.

語源 3

From suspect; originally suss out (“to investigate”).

動詞

suss (三人称単数 現在形 susses, 現在分詞 sussing, 過去形および過去分詞形 sussed)

1. (transitive, Britain, Australia, New Zealand, often with "out") To discover, infer or figure out.
   • 1993, “Emergency On Planet Earth”, performed by Jamiroquai:

     Think we're standing for injustice / White gets two and black gets five years / Well it took me quite a while to suss this