tush

plural tushes

1. dialectalA tusk.

   […] he was still a majestic-looking pig, with a wise and benevolent appearance in spite of the fact that his tushes had never been cut.

   1943 November – 1944 February (date written; published 1945 August 17), George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Animal Farm […], London: Secker & Warburg, published May 1962, →OCLC

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   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 [...].

   1818, John Keats, To J. H. Reynolds, Esq.

2. A small tusk sometimes found on the female Indian elephant.

plural tushes · alternative toosh

1. UScolloquialThe buttocks.First known use 1914

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

   1998, Tim Herlihy, The Wedding Singer, spoken by Robbie Hart (Adam Sandler)

1. archaicAn exclamation of rebuke or scorn.First known use 15th c.

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

   1831 June–November (date written), Jedadiah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], chapter [XIII], in Tales of My Landlord, Fourth and Last Series. […], volume IV (Castle Dangerous), Edinburgh: […] [Ballantyne and Company] for Robert Cadell; London: Whittaker and Co., published 1 December 1831 (indicated as 1832), →OCLC, page 275

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   He glanced through the letter and shook his head. "Tush! tush! And the wife of the bank manager too—the bank manager of Pudlington, James! Can you conceive of anything so dreadful?"

   1920, Herman Cyril McNeile, chapter 1, in Bulldog Drummond

   Synonyms: feh, pfaugh, pish, pshaw, pooh

1. UKcolloquialuncountableNonsense; tosh.

   Synonyms: balderdash, drivel, poppycock

present singular third person tushes · participle present tushing · participle past tushed · past tushed

1. intransitiveTo express contempt; rebuke.

   Synonyms: castigate, lambaste, scold

present singular third person tushes · participle present tushing · participle past tushed · past tushed

1. transitiveTo pull or drag a heavy object such as a tree or log.First known use 1841

plural tushes

1. UKabbreviationclippingobsoleteslangClipping of tusheroon, itself an alternative form of tosheroon.

1. uncountableSynonym of Tushetian, the people of Tusheti in northeastern Georgia.

   Synonyms: Tushetian

2. uncountableThe Georgian dialect spoken by the Tushetians.
3. obsoleteuncountableSynonym of Bats, the Nakh dialect spoken by the Tushetians.

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

   1879, Encyclopaedia Britannica, 9th ed., Vol. X, "Georgia", p. 434

   Synonyms: Bats