tuse

tuse

1. Alternative form of tusi

tuse

1. (Quebec, slang, nonstandard) first-person singular present subjunctive of tuer
   • 1973, Michel Tremblay, C't'à ton tour, Laura Cadieux, page 92:

     "J’ai failli retontir à l’asile oubedonc en prison pour rien! Ousqu’y l’est, c’te p’tit sacrament-là, que j’le tuse!"

     "I almost ended up back in the asylum or in prison for nothing! Where's that little fucker? I'll kill him!"

2. (Quebec, slang, nonstandard) third-person singular present subjunctive of tuer
   • 1979 (1998 edition), Roch Carrier, Les enfants du bonhomme dans la lune, p. 56:

     "C’est triste de penser qu’on est icitte tranquilles, pas d’chicane, quand de l’autre bord, en Urope, le monde se tuse."

     "It's sad to think everythin's calm here, no fightin', while over there, in Urope, they're killing each others."

• tues, tués

tuse

1. second-person singular imperative of tusir

Inherited from Latin tussis, tussem, from Proto-Indo-European *tud-ti-s- (“cough”), from *(s)tewd-, from *(s)tew- (“to push, hit”).

tuse f (uncountable)

1. cough

• tuși

tuse

1. inflection of tusar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative