Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having tushes; tusked.
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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
tush .
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Examples
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"tushed," and "pooh-poohed," the very idea of any kidnappers remaining so near the city and giving me free run of their wigwams.
Lords of the North 1903
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Cedric tushed and pshawed more than once at the message — but he refused not obedience.
Ivanhoe 2004
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They plowed at the ground with their snouts and dug out arms and feet and heads, and soon Inman found himself uprooted, staring eye to eye, forlorn and hostile and baffled, into the long face of a great tushed boar.
Cold Mountain Frazier, Charles, 1950- Cold Mountain 2003
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They plowed at the ground with their snouts and dug out arms and feet and heads, and soon Inman found himself uprooted, staring eye to eye, forlorn and hostile and baffled, into the long face of a great tushed boar.
Cold Mountain Frazier, Charles, 1950- Cold Mountain 1997
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Bates the kennelman pished and tushed, and thought he knew all about it.
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Sir Chichester was shaken, but he pushed his blotting-paper here and his pen there, and pished and tushed like a refractory child.
The Summons 1906
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Cedric tushed and pshawed more than once at the message --- but he refused not obedience.
Ivanhoe 1892
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Cedric tushed and pshawed more than once at the message -- - but he refused not obedience.
Ivanhoe. A Romance 1819
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Cedric tushed and pshawed more than once at the message -- but he refused not obedience.
Ivanhoe Walter Scott 1801
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A hot drop, from a long way above, tushed on Spot’s nose, bringing him abruptly awake with a snort, and an annoyed anggryyrlaooLWWWWL that only a cat can utter when shaken back into cruel reality in such a rude manner.
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