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cush¹

  • /kʊʃ/
  • /kʉʃ/ Northern Ireland, Scotland

Sounds like kush · Rhymes with -ʊʃ

Where it comes from

From cushty, from Romani kushto, kushti (“good”).

adjective more cush · most cush

  1. Geordie, slang Excellent, very good. That car owwer there is propa cush!

cush²

  • /kʊʃ/
  • /kʉʃ/ Northern Ireland, Scotland

Sounds like kush · Rhymes with -ʊʃ

Where it comes from

From cushy.

adjective

  1. Cushy. Sherrington recalled that Bush's office in the old ballpark was "not very cush" and not what you would expect for the owner of a major league franchise.

cush³

  • /kʊʃ/
  • /kʉʃ/ Northern Ireland, Scotland

Sounds like kush · Rhymes with -ʊʃ

Where it comes from

From cushion.

noun cushes

  1. colloquial The cushion, the soft lip around the edge of the table that allows the balls to bounce cleanly.

cush⁴

  • /kʊʃ/
  • /kʉʃ/ Northern Ireland, Scotland

Sounds like kush · Rhymes with -ʊʃ

Where it comes from

Variant of cuisse; compare cuish.

noun cushes

  1. Synonym of cuisse (“armor for the thigh”). "[…]a breast and placket, taces, gorget, a burgonet with a buffe or chin peece," and also "Armour richly quilt and graven consisting of a backe, breast, cushes, a paire of kneecops, gorget, a pair of short taces, one burgonet […]"

    Similar: cuisse

cush⁵

  • /kʊʃ/
  • /kʉʃ/ Northern Ireland, Scotland

Sounds like kush · Rhymes with -ʊʃ

Where it comes from

Variant of kush.

noun

  1. alternative, uncountable Alternative spelling of kush (“marijuana”). “Got caught smoking cush and making out with Franklin Johnson in the memorial garden.” Ugh. This girl has no class. “Did law enforcement press charges?” Lettie asked, concern seeping into her voice. Leave it to Lettie to actually care.

Cush⁶

  • /kʌʃ/
  • /kʊʃ/

Where it comes from

Learned borrowing from Biblical Hebrew כּוּשׁ (kûš, “Ethiopia, Ethiopians”).

proper noun Kush

  1. The son of Ham, grandson of Noah, and supposed progenitor of the African peoples.
  2. A Benjamite mentioned only in the title of Psalm 7.
  3. An Iron Age kingdom on the middle Nile, in what is now northern Sudan.

Cush⁷

noun Kush

  1. alternative, uncountable Alternative form of kush (“marijuana”). He loved smoking joints and couldn't handle blunts. […] I also had him backstage smoking Cush with Jeezy and Will.

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name son of Ham

हिन्दीकूश kūś
Tiếng ViệtCúc, Cút
العربيةكُوش kūš, كُوش بْن حَام kūš bn ḥām

name ancient kingdom

हिन्दीकूश kūś
العربيةكُوش kūš, مَمْلَكَة كُوش

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@misc{cush_2026,
  title = {cush},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/cush},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}