wus

See wuss

wus (plural wusses)

1. Alternative spelling of wuss.

See wu

wus

1. plural of wu

Eye dialect spelling of was.

wus

1. (African-American Vernacular) Eye dialect spelling of was.

   She wus walking home when it happened.

• USW, UWS, WSU, UWs

• (Myanmar) /wu˧˩/
• (Lianghe) [wɑ⁵⁵]
• (Longchuan) [o⁵⁵]
• (Luxi) [wa³¹]
• (Xiandao) [o⁵⁵]

wus

1. town, village

• Inglis, Douglas, Sampu, Nasaw, Jaseng, Wilai, Jana, Thocha (2005) A preliminary Ngochang–Kachin–English Lexicon‎^[1], Payap University, page 139

• wuss

The word is related to wos (“bee”).

wus

1. wasp

Possibly from English whoosh, ultimately onomatopoeic.

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈwus/ [ˈwʊs]
• Rhymes: -us
• Syllabification: wus

wus

1. whoosh (a sound of object that passing at high speed)

• “wus” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

From Proto-Oceanic *pudi, from Proto-Austronesian *punti.

• IPA^(key): /ˈwus/

wus

1. banana
2. banana tree

When referring to the tree, wus is considered part of the long objects class; when referring to the fruit, it is considered a part of the general class.

• meleisik in wus

• Harrison, Sheldon P., Mokilese-English Dictionary, University of Hawaii Press 1977

• Blust's Austronesian Comparative Dictionary – *punti

wus

1. first/third-person singular preterite of weese