German

Alternative forms

• Nuß (superseded)

Noun

Nuss f ‎(genitive Nuss, plural Nüsse, diminutive Nüsschen n or Nüsslein n)

1. nut

Usage notes

The spelling Nuss has been the prescribed spelling 1996 since the German spelling reform of 1996 (the Rechtschreibreform). In Switzerland and Liechtenstein, it had already been standard since ß was deprecated in the 1930s.

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English

Verb

nuss ‎(third-person singular simple present nusses, present participle nussing, simple past and past participle nussed)

1. Eye dialect spelling of nurse.
   • 1851, Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth, Shannodale ..., page 125

     Miss Mar'get wur the first chile as ever I nussed, forty years ago come this next August

   • 1878, Gilbert and Sullivan, "A Many Years Ago", H.M.S. Pinafore

     Two tender babes I nussed

   • 1996, T. Lindsay Baker, Julie Philips Baker, The WPA Oklahoma Slave Narratives, University of Oklahoma Press (ISBN 9780806127927), page 28

     I nussed all his chillun and den later, 'long come dey's chillun and I nussed dem, and I'se even nussed de great gran 'chillun.

Estonian

Noun

nuss ‎(genitive nussi, partitive nussi)

1. (vulgar) an act of sexual intercourse

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.