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tush¹

  • /tʌʃ/
  • /tʊʃ/ Ireland, Northern England

Rhymes with -ʌʃ

Where it comes from

From Middle English tusshe, tusche, tussch, tossche, tosch, from Old English tūsc, from Proto-Germanic *tunþskaz. Doublet of tusk.

noun tushes

  1. dialectal A tusk. 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 [...].
  2. A small tusk sometimes found on the female Indian elephant.

tush²

  • /tʊʃ/

Rhymes with -ʊʃ

Where it comes from

Short for toches, from Yiddish תחת (tokhes), from Hebrew תַּחַת (taḥaṯ, “bottom”).

noun tushes · toosh

  1. US, colloquial The buttocks. Are you gonna tell Glenn?...About you and that kid, and him squeezing your tush.

tush³

  • /tʌʃ/

Rhymes with -ʌʃ

Where it comes from

A natural utterance (OED).

interjection

  1. archaic An exclamation of rebuke or scorn. "Tush, Sir Minstrel," replied the archer, displeased at Bertram's interference, […]

    Similar: feh, pfaugh, pish, pshaw, pooh

noun

  1. UK, colloquial, uncountable Nonsense; tosh.

    Similar: balderdash, drivel, poppycock

verb tushes · tushing · tushed

  1. intransitive To express contempt; rebuke.

    Similar: castigate, lambaste, scold

tush⁴

  • /tʊʃ/
  • /tʌʃ/

Rhymes with -ʊʃ, -ʌʃ

Where it comes from

Unknown.

verb tushes · tushing · tushed

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

tush⁵

  • /tʌʃ/

Rhymes with -ʌʃ

Where it comes from

From British slang tusheroon.

noun tushes

  1. UK, abbreviation, clipping, obsolete, slang Clipping of tusheroon, itself an alternative form of tosheroon.

Tush⁶

Where it comes from

From Georgian თუშ (tuš-), the root of თუშეთი (tušeti, “Tusheti”) and თუშები (tušebi, “Tushetian”).

noun

  1. uncountable Synonym of Tushetian, the people of Tusheti in northeastern Georgia.

    Similar: Tushetian

  2. uncountable The Georgian dialect spoken by the Tushetians.
  3. obsolete, uncountable Synonym 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.

    Similar: Bats

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noun buttocks

Françaisderrière, postérieur

intj exclamation of rebuke

Françaistch

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@misc{tush_2026,
  title = {tush},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/tush},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}