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kuse

Pronunciation: /²kʉːsə/

“kuse” is a Norwegian Bokmål word. Its 2 meanings in English:

noun

  1. the external female genitalia; the vulva
  2. a piece of sacking or a small bundle of spruce twigs fitted onto a drill to prevent splashing during drilling

Etymology

Uncertain. Commonly connected with kusma (“mumps”), whose original underlying sense was “something swollen”, suggesting an earlier meaning referring to a swelling or something swollen. The comparison through kusma has been linked further with Middle Low German koder (“double chin; hanging throat flesh on cattle”), but this does not establish a direct derivation of kuse. Alternatively, the word…

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