Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- interj. Used to express mild reproof, disapproval, or admonition.
- n. A canine tooth, especially of a horse.
- n. Chiefly Southern U.S. See tusk.
- n. Slang The buttocks.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A long pointed tooth; a tusk; specifically, one of the four canine teeth of the horse.
- An exclamation expressing rebuke, impatience, or contempt, and equivalent to ‘pshaw! be silent’: as, tush! tush! never tell me such a story as that.
- To express impatience, contempt, or the like by the exclamation “Tush!”
Wiktionary
- n. now dialectal A tusk.
- n. A small tusk sometimes found on the female Indian elephant.
- n. US, colloquial The buttocks
- n. UK, colloquial nonsense; tosh
- interj. an exclamation of contempt
- v. transitive To pull or drag (a heavy object such as a tree or log).
GNU Webster's 1913
- interj. An exclamation indicating check, rebuke, or contempt.
- n. A long, pointed tooth; a tusk; -- applied especially to certain teeth of horses.
- n. The buttocks; -- a euphemism.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on
Etymologies
- of unknown origin, attested since 1841. (Wiktionary)
- Middle English tusche, from Old English tūsc; see tusk.Alteration of Yiddish tokhes, from Hebrew taḥat, under, buttocks; see tḥt in Semitic roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The word tush occurs frequently and quaintly: "Tush I an sure to fail;”
“What has many on the left squirming in their toddler seats due to the uncomfortable dampness in their tush was a speech made by our President to the Israeli Knesset celebrating the State of Israel's 60th birthday.”
“My 'tush' feels like your feet after you have been walking on them all day.”
“Jan 1995 Steve Shoemaker Additional check -- corrected "tush" to "tusk" in opening poem.”
“On the scaffold, Samson was for drawing of his boots: "tush," said Philippe, "they will come better off after; let us have done, depechons-nous!”
“Thank you so much for the lesson on retracements, again that has saved my "tush" more times than you know.”
“Convocation, that the word 'tush' found in the Psalter means 'bosh,' it must in this sense be what the classical dons call a 'hapslegomenon'. ”
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“Weren't they saying the same things in Massachusetts just before Scott Brown kicked some major league tush???!!!”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘tush’.
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Gene Wolfe
Please contribute your favorite words from any of Gene Wolfe’s books to this prize-winning list.
In case you come across words in this list which are too commonplace to fit in, please ...gallipot, roost, badelaire, oblesque, execration, dhole, amschaspand, arctother, chalcedony, penitence, asimi, autarch and 839 more...
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buttocks
words for buttocks and anything
to do with buttockshiney, heiney, nates, hindquarters, bum, backside, behind, bottom, breech, bunny, butt, can and 160 more...
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Especially
Being a list of words which have "especially" in their definitions.
wringing-machine, especially, device, field, scrip, hit, catch, take, buck, flip, effluvium, proselyte and 107 more...
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A List Of The Cutest Words Ever Created!
HEE OK LETS DO IT! I'm v.v. excited! (with thanks to whichbe, Lampbane, bilby, effigy, frogapplause, and fredrx!)
piggy, toesy woesies, snurfle, wiggly, chomp, lewispoo, dobby, dunderhead, cupcake, mumbo jumbo, wigglebop, scuttle and 99 more...
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Words ending with sh
wash, zanyish, youngish, yokelish, yellowish, wormish, woosh, womanish, wolfish, wispish, wish, winish and 42 more...
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Whether 'Tis Nobler: Words From Hamlet
nay, 'tis, thee, haste, ho, liegemen, o, hath, holla, entreated, apparition, tush and 104 more...
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A Provincial Glossary, 1787
A list of provincial English words that appear in Francis Grose's A Provincial Glossary, with a Collection of Local Proverbs and Popular Superstitions. London, MDCCLXXXVII. Printed for S. Hooper, N...
tharky, velling, cadma, whinnock, caingel, giglet, gill-houter, leasing, leech-way, dellfin, underwood, dilvered and 193 more...
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Ptolemy's Gate
Words and phrases from Jonathan Stroud's book, Ptolemy's Gate.
fall afoul, fleet, tamarisk, krait, inkstone, hotted up, down-market, have a truck with, brio, fatalistic, knock-kneed, conserve and 210 more...
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favorite words
ennui, bonhomie, eschew, liaison, serendipity, lovely, dusk, kitten, epitome, sexy, beloved, darling and 396 more...
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Wuthering Heights
From Wuthering Heights
sagacity, austere, surmise, corroborating, malignity, ensconing, copious, perforce, obviate, dilapidation, must needs, palaver and 154 more...
Tweets
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hernesheir The wing of a ploughshare. - old provincial term from Gloucestershire. May 3, 2011