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発音

• IPA: /wʊs/
• (Scotland, Northern Ireland) IPA: /wʉs/
• 韻: -ʊs

名詞

wuss (plural wusses)

1. (slang, mildly derogatory) A 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.

   • 1982, Cameron Crowe, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, spoken by Mike Damone:

     You are a wuss: part wimp, and part pussy

   • 1995, Rob Huizenga, You're Okay, It's Just a Bruise Page 120

     ...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.

   • 1995, Paul Vautin, Turn It Up!, Sydney: Pan Macmillan Australia, page 144:

     `Fatty's under the thumb. Yeah it's not hard to see who wears the pants in that family. The wuss.'

   • 2003, Andrea P. Roberts, Uncovered: 20 Hints for Men from a Bisexual Woman Page 7

     And finally, don't be a wuss. Have a rich-man's attitude. Men who have money are generally confident and assertive.

   • 2003, Marc J. Soares, 100 Hikes in Yosemite National Park Page 21

     ...stop, study the map, and wait for the others. It's better to be a wuss than a stud.

同意語

• (weak, ineffectual, cowardly, or timid person): pansy, pushover, weakling, wimp, puss, pussy; see also Thesaurus:milksop or Thesaurus:coward

派生語

• wuss out

動詞

wuss (third-person singular simple present wusses, present participle wussing, simple past and past participle wussed)

1. Only used in wuss out