sus
/sʌs/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.04 in modern English
3
Scrabble Score
3
Letters
1
Syllables
2
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
adj
Suspicious; raising or causing people to have suspicions.
adj
Acting in a borderline sexually inappropriate way, causing others to "suspect" them of being sexually attracted to someone and trying to hide it.
Humorous
adj
intj
A nonsense word commonly used in YouTube Poop by playing an audio clip forward and in reverse consecutively; said in reference to this editing style, and to describe palindromes and humorously symmetrized images.
Humorous
Example Sentences
- "The committee […] said ‘sus’ had acquired a symbolic significance out of all proportion to its significance as a criminal charge."
- "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."
- "Everyone had been a bit sus about Mrs Jones and Lana Vilenskaya, so it wasn't surprising that Mrs Jones stood to speak."
- "I'm still really sus about those crocs we found in the drains."
- "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 ..."
- "That guy is always acting sus with the boys—are you sure he's not gay?"
Etymology
Borrowed from Persian سوس (sus), alternative form of شوش (šuš), from Middle Persian 𐭮𐭥𐭱𐭩 (sūš), from Old Persian 𐏂𐎢𐏁𐎠 (çūšā), from Elamite 𒀸𒋗𒊺𒂗 (šušen). Doublet of Susa and Shush.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: 𐭮𐭥𐭱𐭩, 𐏂𐎢𐏁𐎠, 𒀸𒋗𒊺𒂗
Usage
Inflected Forms
more sus (comparative)
susser (comparative)
most sus (superlative)
sussest (superlative)
susses (present, singular)
sussing (participle, present)
sussed (participle, past)
sussed (past)
SUSs (plural)
SUSes (plural)
Derived Forms
susly
sussy