And what does he mean in the commentary when he speaks of Pushkin's "addiction to stuss"?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Strange Case of Pushkin and Nabokov] Reference

Mr. Wilson asks, "And what does he mean in the commentary when he speaks of Pushkin's 'addiction to stuss'?".    From Wordnik.com.  [Other Comment] Reference

I am glad to be enlightened about stuss, a word which is not included in the O.E.D. (I never use Webster), and I am sorry to have missed the account of it in connection with Pushkin's gambling, but my attention, as I read the commentary, did occasionally flag a little.    From Wordnik.com.  [Letters: the Strange Case of Nabokov and Wilson] Reference

I'm not entirely clear about the copyright position for actually reproducing images online so I have not put any on here today, but I expect you could view any stuss you wanted, and save it to your machine for "private" use.    From Wordnik.com.  [Libertarian Blog Place] Reference

His following increased as he rose in gangland, and finally he came to be closely associated with Murtha himself on one hand and the "guns" and other criminals of the underworld who frequented the stuss games, where they gambled away the products of their crimes, on the other.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ear in the Wall] Reference

"Close in on the stuss games.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Lost Sister] Reference