Nuss? Is that really a word? You won’t find it in the dictionary. It’s a word my daughter came up with that has since become a family favourite. I don’t know if it is in general use though.

Nuss comes from the suffix Ness and describes the very essence of something, as in the essence of loneliness, shapelyness or fruityness.

Nuss has a derogatory meaning when a negative intonation is added, as in: “It’s all covered in Nuss!” or “I don’t like its Nuss.” I suppose that by publishing the word here, it has a chance of being picked up by the dictionaries and eventually becoming an authorised word.

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