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Tush
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- 1 An exclamation of rebuke or scorn. archaic
""Tush, Sir Minstrel," replied the archer, displeased at Bertram's interference, […]"
- 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 The buttocks. US, colloquial
"Are you gonna tell Glenn?...About you and that kid, and him squeezing your tush."
- 3 Nonsense; tosh. British, colloquial, uncountable
- 4 Clipping of tusheroon, itself an alternative form of tosheroon. UK, abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, obsolete, slang
- 5 Synonym of Tushetian, the people of Tusheti in northeastern Georgia. uncountable
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- 6 the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on wordnet
- 7 A small tusk sometimes found on the female Indian elephant.
- 8 The Georgian dialect spoken by the Tushetians. uncountable
- 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."
- 1 To express contempt; rebuke. intransitive
- 2 To pull or drag a heavy object such as a tree or log. transitive
Etymology
From Middle English tusshe, tusche, tussch, tossche, tosch, from Old English tūsc, from Proto-Germanic *tunþskaz. Doublet of tusk.
Short for toches, from Yiddish תחת (tokhes), from Hebrew תַּחַת (taḥaṯ, “bottom”).
A natural utterance (OED).
A natural utterance (OED).
A natural utterance (OED).
Unknown.
From British slang tusheroon.
From Georgian თუშ (tuš-), the root of თუშეთი (tušeti, “Tusheti”) and თუშები (tušebi, “Tushetian”).
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