'scuse

• scuse

Aphetic form of excuse.

• Verb:
  • IPA^(key): /skjuːz/

• Audio (Southern England):

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  • Homophone: skews
• Noun:
  • IPA^(key): /skjuːs/
• Rhymes: -uːz, -uːs

'scuse (third-person singular simple present 'scuses, present participle 'scusing, simple past and past participle 'scused)

1. (transitive, colloquial) Excuse.

   'Scuse me, when is the bus due?

'scuse

1. (colloquial) Excuse me.

   'Scuse, can I come past?

'scuse (plural 'scuses)

1. (colloquial) An excuse.
   • 1875, New Dominion Monthly, page 37:

     Oh! she said we must get our 'scuses — the rule, you know.

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