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cushy, a. colloq.|ˈkʊʃɪ|
Also cushey.
[Anglo-Ind., f. Hind. ḳhūsh pleasant.]
Of a post, job, etc.: easy, comfortable, ‘soft’. Of a wound: not dangerous or serious.
1915D. O. Barnett Lett. 44 The billets here are very good..and we have rooms to ourselves... It's all very cushey and nice. 1916Blackw. Mag. Jan. 91/2 I've got a cushy wound. 1916Daily Mail 1 Nov., He's got a cushy job. 1917P. Gibbs Battles of Somme 146 All our men who have had the luck to get a ‘cushie wound’. 1928E. Waugh Decl. & F. i. iii, I was sent to Ireland on a pretty cushy job connected with postal service. 1938Auden & Isherwood On the Frontier iii. i, There're too many healthy young men slacking in cushy staff jobs! 1957Listener 26 Dec. 1066/2 It was not a particularly cushy job and two of our men were killed in action. 1970A. Sillitoe Start in Life 285 You were always on the lookout for a cushy billet. 1971Time 18 Jan. 30/3 Something is not quite right even at the state's cushiest ‘correctional facilities’ (bureaucratese for prisons), some of which could pass for prep schools.
Hence ˈcushiness, the state or condition of being ‘cushy’.
1930S. Sassoon Mem. Infantry Officer ix. 268 There were times when I felt perversely indignant at the ‘cushiness’ of my convalescent existence. |