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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.
(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 ...
(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:
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 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 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 because of a single time. Otherwise the teacher Aberli would have found an excuse anyway so that he wouldn't have had to go.
“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
“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: desperaresuis rebus
(ambiguous) to cause oneself to be expected: exspectationemsui 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
Sievers, Eduard. (2nd. ed. 1892) Bibliothek der ältesten deutschen Litteratur-Denkmäler. V. Band. Tatian. Lateinisch und altdeutsch mit ausführlichem Glossar herausgegeben, p. 438
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.