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kuse

Pronunciation: /²kʉːsɛ/

“kuse” is a Swedish word. Its 4 meanings in English:

noun

  1. a horse
  2. a type of Christmas bread
  3. a bug, a critter (small insect)
  4. a powerful, mature man; master; one who is respected or feared

Etymology

From Middle Dutch cuse (Modern Dutch kuis (“club, lumpy log, lump, clod”)) and/or Low German kuse (“club, wangtooth, molar”). Cognate with Norwegian kus (“hump, hunch”), Norwegian kusa (“cluster, bunch, knot”).

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