tuse

See also: tusé and tuše

Aromanian

Noun

tuse

1. Alternative form of tusi

French

Verb

tuse

1. (Quebec, slang, nonstandard) first-person singular present subjunctive of tuer
   • 1973, Michel Tremblay, C't'à ton tour, Laura Cadieux, page 92:

     "J’ai failli retontir à l’asile oubedonc en prison pour rien! Ousqu’y l’est, c’te p’tit sacrament-là, que j’le tuse!"

     "I almost ended up back in the asylum or in prison for nothing! Where's that little fucker? I'll kill him!"

2. (Quebec, slang, nonstandard) third-person singular present subjunctive of tuer
   • 1979 (1998 edition), Roch Carrier, Les enfants du bonhomme dans la lune, p. 56:

     "C’est triste de penser qu’on est icitte tranquilles, pas d’chicane, quand de l’autre bord, en Urope, le monde se tuse."

     "It's sad to think everythin's calm here, no fightin', while over there, in Urope, they're killing each others."

Anagrams

• tues, tués

Galician

Verb

tuse

1. second-person singular imperative of tusir

Romanian

Etymology

Inherited from Latin tussis, tussem, from Proto-Indo-European *tud-ti-s- (“cough”), from *(s)tewd-, from *(s)tew- (“to push, hit”).

Noun

tuse f (uncountable)

1. cough

Declension

declension of tuse (singular only)

	singular
f gender	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(o) tuse	tusea
genitive/dative	(unei) tuse	tusei
vocative	tuse, tuseo

Related terms

• tuși

Spanish

Verb

tuse

1. inflection of tusar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative