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Answer for the clue "Use some four-letter words ", 4 letters:
cuss

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"to say bad words," 1815, alteration of curse (v.). Related: Cussed ; cussing . To cuss out attested by 1881.

Usage examples of cuss.

Esau kept trying to talk, but he was bouncing up and down so all I could understand was his cuss words, which was free and fervent.

I snorted, and picked up my saddle-bags and stalked through the crowd which give back in a hurry and take care to cuss under their breath when I tromped on their fool toes.

Thee to pipe our shipmates aboard with all fitting ceremony, and to kit them out in proper slops, and to mess them always on dandy duff, and to give them only easy duty and daytime watches, and to cuss or cat them only seldom.

She just wanted to cuss, spit, and fart with us, and I guess the only currency she had was her ropey ole body.

The poor bewhiskered cuss in the stovepipe hat had looked as if his invention had scared him shitless.

As she moved to serve an old cuss at the far end things got back to normal for a lazy afternoon in a taproom.

From gestures and expressions alone, Longarm got an impression one was all for moving on, while the older and cooler-looking cuss was for staying right where they were, as if they were waiting for someone.

Some of those Dutch homesteaders to the south did ride over to cuss at us when we were sending up our fool balloon.

This Ritter cuss came in late at night with that swamping gun, killed the gunsmith with it, stuffed the body in that vault, and put the murder weapon in the window, like it was on sale, as he just walked off with all that money!

So Longarm never told her he was taking the case personally because that other gal had killed a federal prisoner on him before he could bring the cuss in to be hanged.

When you come at a grown man with a gun on your hip and commence to cuss him out, what do you expect from him, a kiss on the cheek?

They were served sourdough bisquits and gravy with piss-poor coffee for breakfast, led next door to the courthouse, and allowed to wait a century or more until Judge Hiram Drysdale, a prune-faced old cuss with a beard and black robe that could have used a dusting, came in to hold court and collect some damned money for the township.

Pat Brennan led him past a balding cuss in rusty black who was seated in the parlor with another deputy.

Old Doc Le Mat is such a contrary cuss, he chambers his freak revolvers every way but sensible.

Yet any honest cowhand could tell at a glance a cuss like that was up to no good.