Etymology

tushie

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Today it means: Buttocks, bottom. Full definition →

Yiddish תּחת ← Hebrew תַּחַת
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The story

  1. Hebrew · derived fromתַּחַת“underside, buttocks”
  2. Yiddish · derived fromתּחת
  3. English todaytushie

From tuchus, from Yiddish תּחת (tokhes), from Hebrew תַּחַת (tákhat, “underside, buttocks”).

Words from the same roots

Yiddishתּחת all →

tuchus

Hebrewתַּחַת all →

tushtuchus

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.