tush
/tʌʃ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.25 in modern English
7
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A tusk.
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?""
- "The Tush or Mosok appears to be fundamentally a Kistian or Tchetchenz idiom affected by Georgian influences."
Etymology
From Middle English tusshe, tusche, tussch, tossche, tosch, from Old English tūsc, from Proto-Germanic *tunþskaz. Doublet of tusk.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: tusshe, tūsc, *tunþskaz, -
Usage
- American usage
- Colloquial
- Archaic
- British usage
- Uncountable
- Intransitive verb
- Transitive verb
- Obsolete