Tush

Quick meaning: Tush is a noun meaning (now dialectal) A tusk.

Meaning

(now dialectal) A tusk.

More Meanings

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

Example Sentences

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

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 [...].

Word Forms

• tushes
• tushing
• tushed

Synonyms for tush

Depending on context, synonyms include feh, pfaugh, pish, pshaw, pooh, balderdash.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include rump, tail, posterior, backside, butt, keister.

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