tush

From Middle English tusshe, tusche, tussch, tossche, tosch, from Old English tūsc, from Proto-Germanic *tunþskaz. Doublet of tusk.

• enPR: tŭsh, IPA^(key): /tʌʃ/

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• (Northern England, Ireland) IPA^(key): /tʊʃ/
• Rhymes: -ʌʃ

tush (plural tushes)

1. (now dialectal) A tusk.
   • 1818, John Keats, To J. H. Reynolds, Esq.:

     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 [...].

   • 1943 November – 1944 February (date written; published 1945 August 17), George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Animal Farm […], London: Secker & Warburg, published May 1962, →OCLC:

     […] 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.

2. A small tusk sometimes found on the female Indian elephant.

Short for toches, from Yiddish תחת (tokhes), from Hebrew תַּחַת (taḥaṯ, “bottom”).

• toosh

• enPR: to͝osh, IPA^(key): /tʊʃ/

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tush (plural tushes)

1. (US, colloquial) The buttocks. [from 1914]
   • 1998, Tim Herlihy, The Wedding Singer, spoken by Robbie Hart (Adam Sandler):

     Are you gonna tell Glenn?...About you and that kid, and him squeezing your tush.

• tushie
• tushy

A natural utterance (OED).

• enPR: tŭsh, IPA^(key): /tʌʃ/

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tush

2. (archaic) An exclamation of rebuke or scorn. [from 15th c.]
   • 1831 June–November (date written), Jedadiah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], chapter [XIII], in Tales of My Landlord, Fourth and Last Series. […], volume IV (Castle Dangerous), Edinburgh: […] [Ballantyne and Company] for Robert Cadell; London: Whittaker and Co., published 1 December 1831 (indicated as 1832), →OCLC, page 275:

     "Tush, Sir Minstrel," replied the archer, displeased at Bertram's interference, […]

   • 1920, Herman Cyril McNeile, chapter 1, in Bulldog Drummond:

     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?"

• (exclamation of scorn): feh, pfaugh, pish, pshaw, pooh; see also Thesaurus:bah

tush (uncountable)

1. (British, colloquial) Nonsense; tosh.

• balderdash, drivel, poppycock; see also Thesaurus:nonsense

tush (third-person singular simple present tushes, present participle tushing, simple past and past participle tushed)

1. (intransitive) To express contempt; rebuke.

• castigate, lambaste, scold; see also Thesaurus:criticize

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• enPR: to͝osh, tŭsh, IPA^(key): /tʊʃ/, /tʌʃ/

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tush (third-person singular simple present tushes, present participle tushing, simple past and past participle tushed)

1. (transitive) To pull or drag a heavy object such as a tree or log. [from 1841]

From British slang tusheroon.

• enPR: tŭsh, IPA^(key): /tʌʃ/

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tush (plural tushes)

1. (UK, obsolete slang) Clipping of tusheroon, itself an alternative form of tosheroon.

• thus, Hust, huts, Thus, shut, STHU

From Proto-Turkic *tǖĺ (“dream”). Compare Turkish düş (“dream”).

tush (plural tushlar)

1. dream