tush

English

Etymology 1

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

Pronunciation

• enPR: tŭsh, IPA^(key): /tʌʃ/

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• Rhymes: -ʌʃ

Noun

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.

Etymology 2

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

Pronunciation

• enPR: to͝osh, IPA^(key): /tʊʃ/

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• Rhymes: -ʊʃ

Noun

tush (plural tushes)

1. (US, colloquial) The buttocks. [from 1914]

Derived terms

• tushie
• tushy

Translations

buttocks

• French: derrière (fr), postérieur (fr)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Spanish: trasero (es)

Etymology 3

A natural utterance (OED).

Pronunciation

• enPR: tŭsh, IPA^(key): /tʌʃ/

  • Audio (UK):

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• Rhymes: -ʌʃ

Interjection

tush

1. An exclamation of contempt or rebuke. [from 15th c.]
   • 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? But I'm afraid Mrs. Bank Manager is a puss—a distinct puss. It's when they get on the soul-mate stunt that the furniture begins to fly."

Synonyms

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

Noun

tush (uncountable)

1. (British, colloquial) Nonsense; tosh.

Synonyms

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

Verb

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

1. (intransitive) To express contempt; rebuke.

Synonyms

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

Etymology 4

Of unknown origin.

Pronunciation

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

  • Audio (UK):

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  • Audio (UK):

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• Rhymes: -ʊʃ, -ʌʃ

Verb

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]

Etymology 5

From British slang tusheroon.

Pronunciation

• enPR: tŭsh, IPA^(key): /tʌʃ/

  • Audio (UK):

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• Rhymes: -ʌʃ

Noun

tush (plural tushes)

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

Anagrams

• Hust, STHU, huts, shut, thus

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Uzbek

Etymology

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

Noun

tush (plural tushlar)

1. dream