tush
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Definition of tush
11 senses · 3 parts of speech · etymology included
noun
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(dialectal)A tusk.
“Perhaps one or two whose lives have patient wings, / And through whose curtains peeps no hellish nose, / No wild-boar tushes, and no mermaid's toes [...].”
“[…] he was still a majestic-looking pig, with a wise and benevolent appearance in spite of the fact that his tushes had never been cut.”
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noun
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(dialectal)A tusk.
“Perhaps one or two whose lives have patient wings, / And through whose curtains peeps no hellish nose, / No wild-boar tushes, and no mermaid's toes [...].”
“[…] he was still a majestic-looking pig, with a wise and benevolent appearance in spite of the fact that his tushes had never been cut.”
- A small tusk sometimes found on the female Indian elephant.
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(US, colloquial)The buttocks.
“Are you gonna tell Glenn?...About you and that kid, and him squeezing your tush.”
- (British, colloquial, uncountable)Nonsense; tosh.
- (UK, abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, obsolete, slang)Clipping of tusheroon, itself an alternative form of tosheroon.
- (uncountable)Synonym of Tushetian, the people of Tusheti in northeastern Georgia.
- (uncountable)The Georgian dialect spoken by the Tushetians.
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(obsolete, uncountable)Synonym of Bats, the Nakh dialect spoken by the Tushetians.
“The Tush or Mosok appears to be fundamentally a Kistian or Tchetchenz idiom affected by Georgian influences.”
intj
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(archaic)An exclamation of rebuke or scorn.
“"Tush, Sir Minstrel," replied the archer, displeased at Bertram's interference, […]”
“He glanced through the letter and shook his head. "Tush! tush! And the wife of the bank manager too—the bank manager of Pudlington, James! Can you conceive of anything so dreadful?"”
verb
- (intransitive)To express contempt; rebuke.
- (transitive)To pull or drag a heavy object such as a tree or log.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Middle English tusshe, tusche, tussch, tossche, tosch, from Old English tūsc, from Proto-Germanic *tunþskaz. Doublet of tusk.
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