wuss

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Best lines: Eleanor, welcomed by the nabob with punctilious honors, rejoining with full Flatbush skepticism: "Wuss this alia bout?"

From Time Magazine Archive

"Wuss nor rheumatiz," said the boy, as he threw away the cigar stub and drew some cider in a broken tea cup.

From Peck's Bad Boy and His Pa 1883 by Smith, Gean

Wuss shame by far than to be strung up to turn agin him as he was hand and glove with!”

From The Carbonels by Stacey, W. S. (Walter S.)

Wuss, suh, fer she wuz younger, an' stronger.

From The Marrow of Tradition by Chesnutt, Charles W. (Charles Waddell)

Wuss," he insisted, with a most mournful shake of the head, "a dinged sight wuss.

From When Wilderness Was King A Tale of the Illinois Country by Parrish, Randall