cush

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To the north there is a slip of limestone land, from Kilgarvon to Cabbina-cush, that is six miles east of Nedeen, and three to the west, but is not more than a quarter of a mile broad, the rest, including the mountains, all sandstone.

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  1. noun Chiefly Southern U.S. A dish made by frying or boiling cornmeal or crumbled cornbread with grease and often other ingredients such as pieces of meat or onion.

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  • Clay Shirky, the hyperarticulate Web 2.0 guru and speaker who has a couple books and a cush teaching gig and therefore has no dogs in the race of print journalism per se, cranks out —  Adrian Monck
  • And finally, everyone gets to weigh in on the hiring of Gen-Y's favorite stoner for a White House job: Kal Penn, who is giving up his cush job as an actor on the hit show House for a public relations gig at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. —  The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
  • My overnight journey was comfortable and quite the cultural experience, as I opted for 1 class cheaper than the really cush traveler class and shared a berth with a Vietnamese family and a local businessman. —  TravelPod.com Recent Updates
  • I've plopped my way through at least three beanbag chairs in the past decade, generally because they either lost their "cush" or got punctured and vomited their miniscule Styrofoam beads all over the floor. —  Dailygame
  • Bush as Simpson: Both were handed cush jobs in the energy industry and both succeed despite their lack of curiousity, leaving observers mystified at how they got so far in life. —  Grist - the Latest from Grist
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  1. Anglo-Indian
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