Tush

//tʌʃ// intj, noun, verb, slang

Definitions

Intj
  1. 1
    An exclamation of rebuke or scorn. archaic

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

Noun
  1. 1
    A tusk. dialectal

    "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 [...]."

  2. 2
    The buttocks. US, colloquial

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

  3. 3
    Nonsense; tosh. British, colloquial, uncountable
  4. 4
    Clipping of tusheroon, itself an alternative form of tosheroon. UK, abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, obsolete, slang
  5. 5
    Synonym of Tushetian, the people of Tusheti in northeastern Georgia. uncountable
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  1. 6
    the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on wordnet
  2. 7
    A small tusk sometimes found on the female Indian elephant.
  3. 8
    The Georgian dialect spoken by the Tushetians. uncountable
  4. 9
    Synonym of Bats, the Nakh dialect spoken by the Tushetians. obsolete, uncountable

    "The Tush or Mosok appears to be fundamentally a Kistian or Tchetchenz idiom affected by Georgian influences."

Verb
  1. 1
    To express contempt; rebuke. intransitive
  2. 2
    To pull or drag a heavy object such as a tree or log. transitive

Etymology

Etymology 1

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

Etymology 2

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

Etymology 3

A natural utterance (OED).

Etymology 4

A natural utterance (OED).

Etymology 5

A natural utterance (OED).

Etymology 6

Unknown.

Etymology 7

From British slang tusheroon.

Etymology 8

From Georgian თუშ (tuš-), the root of თუშეთი (tušeti, “Tusheti”) and თუშები (tušebi, “Tushetian”).

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