くそ
Meanings
Interjection
1. damn; damn it; shit; crap (Usually kana)
Prefix
3. damn; damned; blasted; stupid (Usually kana)
4. very; extremely; really (Usually kana)
Noun
7. negligible; insignificant; not mattering at all; counting for nothing; hardly worth consideration; out of the question (Usually kana, as ...もくそもない or ...もくそもあるか)
Other spellings
糞
Other readings
Kanji in other spellings
Pitch accent
くそ
Used in vocabulary
くそみそ
severely (criticize, run down, etc.); terribly; harshly; scathingly; unable to differentiate the good from the bad; (valuable and worthless things) treated the same
Na-adjective
くそにんじん
annual mugwort (Artemisia annua); annual wormwood; sweet sagewort; sweet Annie; sweet wormwood
Noun
みそくそ
severely (criticize, run down, etc.); terribly; harshly; scathingly; unable to differentiate the good from the bad; (valuable and worthless things) treated the same
Na-adjective
一本糞
long stool (that one is able to press out entirely in one go without it getting cut off); (long) sausage-shaped poop; grogan
Noun
小便一町糞一里
if you visit the toilet while traveling, you will fall behind your fellow travelers; one chō for a piss, one ri for a shit
Expression
Examples4
四天王 も 倒した、 クソ 長い 地下 迷宮 も クリア した。
I'd defeated the four sub-bosses and got through the damn long underground labyrinth.
お前 の 鼻 を クソ に 擦りつけて やった。
I sure rubbed your nose in shit.
彼女 は、 クソ みたいな 愛 の 言葉 が 欲しかった んだ。
She needed fuckin' words of love.
一日 ひと くそ、 医者 いらず。
A shit a day keeps the doctor away.