Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The buttocks.
- noun A canine tooth, especially of a horse.
- interjection Used to express mild reproof, disapproval, or admonition.
from The Century Dictionary.
- 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!”
- noun A long pointed tooth; a tusk; specifically, one of the four canine teeth of the horse.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- interjection An exclamation indicating check, rebuke, or contempt.
- noun A long, pointed tooth; a tusk; -- applied especially to certain teeth of horses.
- noun The buttocks; -- a euphemism.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun now dialectal A
tusk . - noun A small
tusk sometimes found on the femaleIndian elephant . - interjection an exclamation of contempt
- noun US, colloquial The
buttocks - noun UK, colloquial
nonsense ;tosh - verb transitive To pull or drag (a heavy object such as a tree or log).
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The word tush occurs frequently and quaintly: "Tush I an sure to fail;"
Sabbath in Puritan New England Alice Morse Earle 1881
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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.
Right Truth 2009
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"My 'tush' feels like your feet after you have been walking on them all day."
mighty comfortable 2006
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"My 'tush' feels like your feet after you have been walking on them all day."
Archive 2006-06-01 2006
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Jan 1995 Steve Shoemaker Additional check -- corrected "tush" to "tusk" in opening poem.
The Jungle Book. 1893
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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!"
The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838
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Thank you so much for the lesson on retracements, again that has saved my "tush" more times than you know.
TradingMarkets 2009
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Thank you so much for the lesson on retracements, again that has saved my "tush" more times than you know.
TradingMarkets 2009
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Thank you so much for the lesson on retracements, again that has saved my "tush" more times than you know.
TradingMarkets 2009
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Thank you so much for the lesson on retracements, again that has saved my "tush" more times than you know.
TradingMarkets 2009
hernesheir commented on the word tush
The wing of a ploughshare. - old provincial term from Gloucestershire.
May 3, 2011