sus

sus

1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Susu.

• IPA^(key): /sʌs/
• Rhymes: -ʌs
• Homophone: suss

Clipping of suspicion.

sus (uncountable)

1. (UK, informal) Suspicion (in terms of a sus law).
   • 2002, Simon James, British Government: A Reader in Policy Making, page 84:

     The committee […] said ‘sus’ had acquired a symbolic significance out of all proportion to its significance as a criminal charge.

Clipping of suspicious.

sus (comparative more sus or susser, superlative most sus or sussest)

1. (slang) Suspicious; having suspicions or questions.
   • 2010, Olwyn Conrau, The Importance of Being Cool‎, Carindale: Glass House Brooks, page 134:

     Even my lame psychic ability told me he'd be pretty sus if he found me pissing on in the lounge room on a week night.

   • 2015, Peter King, The Weaving‎, Wellington: Peter King Publishing:

     Everyone had been a bit sus about Mrs Jones and Lana Vilenskaya, so it wasn't surprising that Mrs Jones stood to speak.

   • 2018, Ron Chinchen, Scent of the Beast‎, Bloomington: Xlibris:

     I'm still really sus about those crocs we found in the drains.

2. (slang) Suspicious; raising or causing people to have suspicions.
   • 1972, Frank Norman, The lives of Frank Norman: told in extracts from his autobiographical books Banana boy, Stand on me, Bang to rights, The guntz:

     Why this should be I will never know except I might be a pretty sus looking geezer or something. They took about six of us who were in the cafe down the nick and dubbed us up in separate peters. After a long while these two bogies came into ...

3. (slang, specifically, often humorous) Acting in a borderline sexually inappropriate way, causing others to "suspect" them of being sexually attracted to someone and trying to hide it.

   That guy is always acting sus with the boys—are you sure he's not gay?

   • 2021 September 9, @COGxCam, Twitter‎, archived from the original on 18 December 2023:

     I was acting sus with my friend turns out he's gay I don't think he was joking

   • 2022 October 31, u/Keggerbev, “(post title)”, in Reddit‎, r/Advice, archived from the original on 18 December 2023:

     Gf [30] was acting sus around another guy and not sure If im [M20] just overthinking it.

   • 2023 March 9, u/rainbows_are_a_mess, “The Bombay Movie Club”, in Reddit‎, r/mumbai, archived from the original on 17 December 2023:

     I've also heard many instances of him acting sus with girls.

   • 2023 August 6, @bridaaah, Twitter‎, archived from the original on 17 December 2023:

     Totally not being sus with my controller

Clipping of suspended.

sus (not comparable)

1. (music) Abbreviation of suspended.

• sus chord

Clipping of suspend.

sus (third-person singular simple present suses, present participle sussing, simple past and past participle sussed)

1. (transitive, Internet slang) To suspend an account on social media (almost exclusively Twitter/X).

   yeah, the account posting offensive stuff got sussed.

• U.S.S., USS, USs, us's

From Dutch zus, shortening of zuster. Equivalent to a shortening of suster.

• IPA^(key): /sœs/

sus (plural susse, diminutive sussie)

1. sister (female sibling)

   Synonym: suster

• suster

• susch, suscht

From Middle High German sus. Compare German sonst.

• IPA^(key): /sus/, /sʊs/

sus

1. otherwise
   • 1968/1969, Alois Senti with Robert Wildhaber, “Die Sagen der Gemeinde Flums [The sagas of the municipality Flums]”, in Schweizerisches Archiv für Volkskunde‎, volume 65, number 3/4, Schweizerische Gesellschaft für Volkskunde, published 1969, Vum Ggaueler, page 154:

     138 […] Äs seï ä schwarzä Maa mitemä Huet gsii, aber uuni Chopf. «Ich haa ds Büechli nid beï mer, sus hett nä aagsprocha...», heï dr Pfarrer Zwyfel gsäit. Gsii isch es dr Ggaueler.

     138 […] It has [reportedly] been a black man with a hat but without a head. “I don't have this booklet on me, otherwise I would have talked to him...” has pastor Zwyfel [reportedly] said. It has been the Ggaueler.

   • 1970, Alois Senti, Häxäwärch: Sibä Gschichtä im Flumsertiäläggt‎, Mels: Verlag des Sarganserländers, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 27:

     Wägemä äinzigä Moul hät aber niemert müügä nämis säägä. Sus hett jo dr Leïrer Aberli schu än Uusreïd gfundä, ass er nid hett müessä guu.

     But nobody wanted to say anything [only] because of a single time. Otherwise the teacher Aberli would have found an excuse anyway so that he wouldn't have had to go.

• suschtig

• susu
• ãnsus, nsus, nsusu (prefixed)

Inherited from Latin sūsum. Compare Romanian sus.

sus

1. up

   Antonym: ghios

Probably a shortening of susmaryosep.

sus

1. used as an expression of anger, frustration or disbelief

Borrowed from English shoes.

sus

1. shoe

From the verb suse (“to hiss, whistle”), of imitative origin, similar to German sausen (“to whizz”).

• IPA^(key): /suːs/, [suːˀs]

sus n (singular definite suset, plural indefinite sus)

1. whistling, singing
2. whisper, soughing
3. whizz
4. rush (pleasurable sensation experienced after use of a stimulant)

• susen

sus

1. imperative of suse

• IPA^(key): /ˈsus/

sus f pl

1. (Lagarteiru) Apocopic form of súas (“his, her, its, their”)

• Used in Lagarteiru before a feminine plural noun as part of a noun phrase.

• Valeš, Miroslav (2021) Diccionariu de A Fala: lagarteiru, mañegu, valverdeñu (web)‎, 2nd edition, Minde, Portugal: CIDLeS, published 2022, →ISBN

Shortening from Jeesus.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsus/, [ˈs̠us̠]
• Rhymes: -us
• Syllabification^(key): sus

sus

1. oh; used only in the expression shown in the example below

   Sus siunatkoon!

   Oh my God!

• “sus”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03

• IPA^(key): /sy/
• Homophones: su, sue, suent, sues, sut, sût
• Rhymes: -y

From Old French sus, from Latin sūsum.

sus

1. (dated) up

• en sus
• en sus de

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

sus

1. first/second-person singular past historic of savoir

• “sus”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

sus

1. (woman's) breast

• J. C. Anceaux, The Linguistic Situation in the Islands of Yapen, Kurudu, Nau and Miosnum (2013), page 46

Sus (1).

From a back-formation of Proto-Slavic *sъsьlъ. Cognates include Polish suseł and Czech sysel.

Influenced folk etymologically by Etymology 2.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsus/
• Hyphenation: sus

sus m animal

1. ground squirrel (rodent of the genus Spermophilus)

Borrowed from German Schuss.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsus/
• Hyphenation: sus

sus m inan

1. jump, leap

   Synonyms: skòk, hops

• Stefan Ramułt (1893) “sus”, in Słownik języka pomorskiego czyli kaszubskiego‎ (in Kashubian)
• Eùgeniusz Gòłąbk (2011) “suseł”, in Słownik Polsko-Kaszubski / Słowôrz Pòlskò-Kaszëbsczi‎
• “sus”, in Internetowi Słowôrz Kaszëbsczégò Jãzëka [Internet Dictionary of the Kashubian Language], Fundacja Kaszuby, 2022

From Proto-Italic *sūs, from Proto-Indo-European *suH-. Compare Ancient Greek ὗς (hûs), Pali sūkara, English swine, sow.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /suːs/, [s̠uːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /sus/, [sus]

sūs m or f (irregular, genitive suis); third declension

1. pig

   Synonyms: porcus, scrōfa

Third-declension noun (irregular).

• Romanian: sor (possibly)
• Sardinian: sughe, sue

• “sus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “sus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• sus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• sus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) to have become independent, be no longer a minor: sui iuris factum esse
    
  • (ambiguous) to outlive, survive all one's kin: omnium suorum or omnibus suis superstitem esse
    
  • (ambiguous) to shed one's blood for one's fatherland: sanguinem suum pro patria effundere or profundere
    
  • (ambiguous) to take measures for one's safety; to look after one's own interests: suis rebus or sibi consulere
    
  • (ambiguous) to employ in the furtherance of one's interests: aliquid in usum suum conferre
    
  • (ambiguous) to leave a great reputation behind one: magnam sui famam relinquere
    
  • (ambiguous) to use up, make full use of one's spare time: otio abūti or otium ad suum usum transferre
    
  • (ambiguous) to win renown amongst posterity by some act: nomen suum posteritati aliqua re commendare, propagare, prodere
    
  • (ambiguous) to immortalise one's name: memoriam nominis sui immortalitati tradere, mandare, commendare
    
  • (ambiguous) to take a thing to heart: demittere aliquid in pectus or in pectus animumque suum
    
  • (ambiguous) to be contented: rebus suis, sorte sua contentum esse
    
  • (ambiguous) to lose one's head, be beside oneself: sui (mentis) compotem non esse
    
  • (ambiguous) to despair of one's position: desperare suis rebus
    
  • (ambiguous) to cause oneself to be expected: exspectationem sui facere, commovere
    
  • (ambiguous) self-confidence: fiducia sui (Liv. 25. 37)
    
  • (ambiguous) a man of no self-control, self-indulgent: homo impotens sui
    
  • (ambiguous) to do one's duty: officium suum facere, servare, colere, tueri, exsequi, praestare
    
  • (ambiguous) to neglect one's duty: officium suum deserere, neglegere
    
  • (ambiguous) to be courteous, obliging to some one: aliquem officiis suis complecti, prosequi
    
  • (ambiguous) to follow one's inclinations: studiis suis obsequi (De Or. 1. 1. 3)
    
  • (ambiguous) to be a strict disciplinarian in one's household: severum imperium in suis exercere, tenere (De Sen. 11. 37)
    
  • (ambiguous) to go into mourning: vestem mutare (opp. ad vestitum suum redire) (Planc. 12. 29)
    
  • (ambiguous) to give audience to some one: sui potestatem facere, praebere alicui
    
  • (ambiguous) to have no debts: in suis nummis versari (Verr. 4. 6. 11)
    
  • (ambiguous) (a state) has its own laws, is autonomous: suis legibus utitur (B. G. 1. 45. 3)
    
  • (ambiguous) to grant a people its independence: populum liberum esse, libertate uti, sui iuris esse pati
    
  • (ambiguous) to assert one's right: ius suum persequi
    
  • (ambiguous) to obtain justice: ius suum adipisci (Liv. 1. 32. 10)
    
  • (ambiguous) to maintain one's right: ius suum tenere, obtinere
    
  • (ambiguous) to accept battle: potestatem sui facere (alicui) (cf. sect. XII. 9, note audientia...)
    
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7)‎, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
• Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm (1911) “sūs”, in Romanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), page 639

• IPA^(key): /suːs/

sus

1. second-person singular imperative of sies

From Old French sus.

sus

1. on; on top of

sus

1. on; on top of; atop

• French: sus (obsolete)

• sust, sunst

From Old High German sus.

sus

1. in this manner that follows, thus
2. otherwise

• Alemannic German: sus, susch, suscht
• German: sonst

• “sus” in Mittelhochdeutsches Handwörterbuch, Matthias von Lexer, 3 vols., Leipzig 1872–1878.

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From Old French sus, from Latin sūsum.

sus

1. (Guernsey) on
   • 1903, Edgar MacCulloch, “Proverbs, Weather Sayings, etc.”, in Guernsey Folk Lore‎, page 524:

     Orguillaeux coume ùn pouâis sûs v'louss.

     As proud as a louse on velvet.

sus

1. first-person singular preterite of saver

sus

1. locative of son

sus

1. imperative of susa

Inherited from Latin sūsum.

• IPA^(key): /sys/

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sus

1. over

   Antonym: jos

• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “sūrsum”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volumes 12: Sk–š, page 463

Inherited from Latin sūsum.

sus

1. up

   Antonym: jus

sus

1. above

   Antonym: jus

• “sus” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Inherited from Latin sūsum.

• IPA^(key): /sys/

sus

1. above; high up

   Antonym: jus

sus

1. above; on top of

• French: sus
• Norman: sus

• “sus”, in DEAF: Dictionnaire Étymologique de l'Ancien Français, Heidelberg: Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1968-.

sus

1. Alternative form of soz (“under”)

Related to Proto-West Germanic *swā (“in this manner”), see also Dutch zus.

sus

1. in this manner that follows, thus

• Middle High German: sus, sust, sunst
  • Alemannic German: sus, susch, suscht
  • German: sonst

1. Sievers, Eduard. (2nd. ed. 1892) Bibliothek der ältesten deutschen Litteratur-Denkmäler. V. Band. Tatian. Lateinisch und altdeutsch mit ausführlichem Glossar herausgegeben, p. 438

Mazurzenie of szus, from German Schuss, from Middle High German, from Old High German scuz, from Proto-West Germanic *skuti.

• IPA^(key): /sus/

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• Rhymes: -us
• Syllabification: sus

sus m inan

1. caper, jump, leap (long, quick jump)
   • 1922, Voltaire, chapter 1, in Tadeusz Boy-Żeleński, transl., Prostaczek (L'ingénu):

     Zgoła inaczej zachował się pewien młody człowiek bardzo zręcznej postaci, który skoczył jednym susem poprzez głowy towarzyszy i znalazł się tuż nawprost panienki.

     That was not the behavior of a well-made youth, who, darting himself over the heads of his companions, suddenly stood before Miss Kerkabon.

• sus in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• sus in Polish dictionaries at PWN

sus!

1. come on! (inducing courage or willpower)

• sos — rare or archaic; influenced by the antonym jos

Inherited from Latin sūsum.

sus

1. up

   Antonym: jos

• deasupra
• peste

• sus in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

• IPA^(key): /sus/ [sus]
• Rhymes: -us
• Syllabification: sus

From Old Spanish sus, apocopic form of suso.

sus

1. c'mon; attaboy

sus pl (possessive)

1. plural of su; one's, his, her, its, their (with plural possessee)
2. (formal) your (with plural possessee)

• “sus”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Deverbal from susa.

sus n

1. a drawn-out, soft, tone-less murmur, like from a wind; sighing, soughing

   tallens sus

   the sighing of the pine

   1. murmur (in a crowd)

      ett sus gick genom publiken

      a murmur went through the crowd

• i sus och dus

• susa

• vin (“howl, whistle”)

• sus in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• sus in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• sus in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

From a minced oath clipping of Hesus, from Spanish Jesús.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsus/, [ˈsus]

sus (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜓᜐ᜔)

1. (colloquial) geez; c'mon

sus

1. second-person singular imperative of susmak

sus

1. A plant used in drug production