Tush

English

Noun

Tush (plural tushes)

1. (now dialectal) A tusk.
   • 1818, John Keats, "To J. H. Reynolds, Esq.":

     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 [...].

Noun

Tush (plural Tushes)

1. (US, colloquial) The buttocks.
2. (UK, colloquial) nonsense; tosh

Derived terms

• tushie
• tushy

Interjection

tush

1. an exclamation of contempt

Verb

Tush (third-person singular simple present tushes, present participle tushing, simple past and past participle tushed)

1. (transitive) To pull or drag (of a heavy object such as a tree or log).

Thesaurus

arse, ass, baby tooth, bicuspid, bucktooth, bum, can, canine, cheeks, crown, cuspid, cutter, deciduous tooth, dent, denticle, denticulation, dentil, dentition, dogtooth, eyetooth, fang, fanny, fore tooth, gagtooth, gang tooth, gold tooth, grinder, incisor, keister, milk tooth, molar, peg, permanent tooth, pivot tooth, prat, premolar, rusty-dusty, scrivello, snag, snaggletooth, stern, tail, tooth, tuchis, tushy, tusk, wisdom tooth

Etymology 1

Old English tusc.

Etymology 2

Short for toches, from the Yiddish tokhes, which is from Hebrew תחת, meaning "under". Since 1914.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ʊʃ

Etymology 3

A "natural utterance" (OED), attested since the 15th century

Etymology 4

of unknown origin, attested since 1841.

Translations

Noun

• French: derrière, postérieur

Anagrams

• huts
• shut
• STHU
• thus