ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Tush

/tʌʃ/ · noun

Meaning

(now dialectal) A tusk..

Definitions by Sense

(now dialectal) A tusk.
A small tusk sometimes found on the female Indian elephant.
(US, colloquial) The buttocks.
(archaic) An exclamation of rebuke or scorn.
(British, colloquial) Nonsense; tosh.
(intransitive) To express contempt; rebuke.
(transitive) To pull or drag a heavy object such as a tree or log.
(UK, obsolete slang) Clipping of tusheroon, itself an alternative form of tosheroon.

Example Sentences

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 [...].

[…] 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.

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

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

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?"

Word Forms

tushes
toosh
tushing
tushed

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Frequently Asked Questions

What does tush mean?

Tush means (now dialectal) A tusk..

What is a synonym for tush?

Common synonyms include feh, pfaugh, pish, pshaw.

What is the opposite of tush?

The opposite depends on the specific sense.

How do you use tush in a sentence?

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 [...].

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Definitions by Sense

(now dialectal) A tusk.

A small tusk sometimes found on the female Indian elephant.

(US, colloquial) The buttocks.

(archaic) An exclamation of rebuke or scorn.

(British, colloquial) Nonsense; tosh.

(intransitive) To express contempt; rebuke.

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

(UK, obsolete slang) Clipping of tusheroon, itself an alternative form of tosheroon.

Example Sentences

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 [...].

[…] 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.

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

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

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?"

Frequently Asked Questions

What does tush mean?

Tush means (now dialectal) A tusk..

What is a synonym for tush?

Common synonyms include feh, pfaugh, pish, pshaw.

What is the opposite of tush?

The opposite depends on the specific sense.

How do you use tush in a sentence?

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 [...].

Sources & Attribution

FreeDictionaryAPI.com / Wiktionary · Original source · CC BY-SA 4.0

Dictionary data is provided by FreeDictionaryAPI.com and sourced from Wiktionary under its stated license.