Ornery fellow
The crossword clue "Ornery fellow" is answered by CUSS, a 4-letter entry. Used 12 times across 10 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1961. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
CUSS
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the CUSS answer page.
Used 12 times across 10 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1961. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for CUSS
Every other clue in this collection answered by CUSS, most used first.
- Swear - used 57 times, most recently in 2026
- Use foul language - used 19 times, most recently in 2026
- Ornery sort - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
- Use profanity - used 10 times, most recently in 2025
- Talk a blue streak? - used 9 times, most recently in 2022
- Say "!@#$%" - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
- "Stubborn" guy - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
- "Ornery" guy - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
- Ornery one - used 6 times, most recently in 2015
- Use bad words - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
Related clues
Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.
- Fellow - CHAP, used 204 times
- Fellow - GENT, used 66 times
- British fellow - CHAP, used 60 times
- Polite fellow - GENT, used 36 times
- "For ___ jolly good fellow . . . " - HESA, used 29 times
- Uncool fellow - NERD, used 23 times
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