tush
/tʌʃ/ · noun
Meaning
- A tusk.
- A small tusk sometimes found on the female Indian elephant.
- The buttocks.
- An exclamation of rebuke or scorn.
- Nonsense; tosh.
- To express contempt; rebuke.
- To pull or drag a heavy object such as a tree or log.
- Clipping of tusheroon, itself an alternative form of tosheroon.
- Synonym of Tushetian, the people of Tusheti in northeastern Georgia.
- The Georgian dialect spoken by the Tushetians.
- Synonym of Bats, the Nakh dialect spoken by the Tushetians.
Etymology / origin
From Middle English tusshe, tusche, tussch, tossche, tosch, from Old English tūsc, from Proto-Germanic *tunþskaz. Doublet of tusk.
- *tunþskaz(gem-pro)→
- tūsc(ang)→
- tusshe(Middle English)→
- tush (English)
- Relations: inh, inh, inh
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