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suss¹

  • /sʌs/
  • /sʊs/ Northern England

Sounds like sus · Rhymes with -ʌs

noun susses · sus

  1. alternative Alternative form of soss (“miry place”).

suss²

  • /sʌs/
  • /sʊs/ Northern England

Sounds like sus · Rhymes with -ʌs

Where it comes from

Clipping of suspicious and/or suspect (adjective). Compare sus.

adjective more suss · most suss · sus

  1. Australia, New Zealand, UK, US, colloquial Suspicious; suspect. 2001, Mo Hayder, The Treatment, 2008, Bantam, UK, page 244, ‘Yes – OK, OK. Try not to struggle, Tracey. It just makes you look even more suss.’

noun sus

  1. UK, uncountable Suspicious behaviour; the act of loitering with intent.

verb susses · sussing · sussed · sus

  1. UK, obsolete, transitive To arrest for suspicious behaviour.

suss³

  • /sʌs/
  • /sʊs/ Northern England

Sounds like sus · Rhymes with -ʌs

Where it comes from

From suspect; originally suss out (“to discover or figure out”).

verb susses · sussing · sussed · sus

  1. Australia, New Zealand, UK, often, transitive, with "out" To discover, infer or figure out. Think we're standing for injustice / White gets two and black gets five years / Well it took me quite a while to suss this
  2. Australia, New Zealand, UK, transitive To study or size up, to check out (examine).

noun sus

  1. UK, uncountable Social nous. ‘I′m surprised at you, Danny Weston! I thought you had a bit more suss than this. I never thought you were capable of something so ... silly.’

Suss⁴

proper noun Susses

  1. A surname

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@misc{suss_2026,
  title = {suss},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/suss},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}