tushn.1
/tʌʃ/, U.S. /təʃ/ 1.
a. = tusk n.1 1. Now chiefly archaic or dialect.
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the world > life > the body > digestive or excretive organs > digestive organs > mouth > types or spec. teeth > [noun] > projecting
tushc725
tuska900
tusclec1000
butter tootha1566
gag-tooth1585
gang-tooth1603
gubber-tush1621
gobber tooth1628
buck-tooth1753
tombstone1809
rabbit tooth1863
α.
β. a1400 Seuyn Sages (W.) 911 The bor..wette his tossches and his fet.c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 497/2 Tosche, longe tothe (Winch. MS. tosch; Pynson toyssh), colomellus, culmus.1564 T. Becon Humble Supplication (new ed.) f. xxii, in Wks. iii Whose teeth ar like to ye venomous toshes of ye rampyng lyon.1823–78 in dial. glossaries (E. Anglia, Northumb., Cumb.) c725 Corpus Gloss. G. 62 Genuino, tusc.
c1050 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 489 Genuinis, tuscum.
1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (Bodl.) xviii. xxxi Beestes wiþ teeþ and tussches in aiþer iowe haue none hornes.
a1400 Seuyn Sages (W.) 914 The tusches in the tre he smit.
c1400 (?c1390) Sir Gawain & Green Knight (1940) l. 1573 [The boar] Whetteȝ his whyte tuschez [MS reads tuscheȝ].
a1425 Edward, Duke of York Master of Game (Digby) v Men beyonde þe see calleth þe neither tusshes of þe boore his armes, or elles his files,..also þei calleth his tusshes aboue gres.
1575 G. Gascoigne Noble Arte Venerie l. 150 Amongst the reste they haue foure [teeth],..and we call them Tuskes or Tusches.
1626 G. Sandys tr. Ovid Metamorphosis viii. 157 His tushes equall those Of Indian Elephants.
1672 J. Josselyn New-Englands Rarities 97 Morse, or Sea Horse, having a great Head,..armed with Tushes as white as Ivory.
1737 T. Stackhouse New Hist. Bible (1767) VI. vi. iii. 77 The whale has neither teeth nor tushes.
1848 C. Kingsley Saint's Trag. ii. viii. 299 He is an old boar, and honest; he wears his tushes outside, for a warning to all men.
b. spec. A canine tooth, esp. of a horse: cf. tusk n.1 1b.
ΘΚΠ
the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > body or parts of horse > [noun] > mouth or type of > teeth > canine(s)
stallion teeth1607
tush1607
tusk1808
1607 G. Markham Cavelarice i. 28 At fiue yeares olde he changes his tushes.
1610 G. Markham Maister-peece ii. clxvii. 477 The [horse's] tush will be white, small, short, and sharp.
c1720 W. Gibson Farriers New Guide i. vi. 98 The canini or Dog-Teeth, which in Horses are called the Tushes.
1766 T. Pennant Brit. Zool. i. 51 The Hedge Hog... In each jaw are two sharp pointed cutting teeth: in the upper jaw are on each side four tushes, and five grinders: in the lower..three tushes..and..four grinders.
1850 F. E. Smedley Frank Fairlegh xl. 331 Rising five and six..tush well up in one, and nicely through in the other.
c. A stunted tusk in some Indian elephants.
ΘΚΠ
the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > order Proboscidea (elephants) > [noun] > elephant > elephas maximus (Indian elephant) > parts of
tush1859
1859 J. E. Tennent Ceylon II. viii. i. 274 Not one elephant in a hundred is found with tusks in Ceylon... Nearly all, however, have those stunted processes which are called tushes, about ten or twelve inches in length and one or two in diameter.
1859 All Year Round 3 Dec. 129 All the untusked elephants of Ceylon have ‘tushes’,..which they use in snapping off small branches.
1878 J. Gibson in Encycl. Brit. VIII. 125/1 The male [Ceylon elephant]..generally has a pair of upper incisors, known as ‘tushes’, about a foot long, and one or two inches in diameter.
1900 F. T. Pollok & W. S. Thom Wild Sports Burma & Assam ii. 35 The result of the cross-breed is that you get large males with very poor tusks, but still tusks, as distinct from tushes.
2. In a plough: = fin n.1 3b. Obsolete exc. dialect.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > farming > tools and implements > ploughing equipment > [noun] > plough > coulter > fin
wing1577
fin1652
tush1652
1652 W. Blith Eng. Improver Improved xxviii. 912 The Tush or Phin of the Share will whelm the more being set down to the work which is the Levell or bottom of the head.
1787 F. Grose Provinc. Gloss. Tush, the wing of a ploughshare. Glouc.
1893 J. Salisbury Gloss. Words S.E. Worcs. Tush, the broad part of a plough-share.
3. Architecture. (See quot. 1905 and cf. tuss n.)
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society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > disposition of stones or bricks > [noun] > specific stone or brick
hirne-stonec1000
parpen1252
coin1350
coin-stone1350
angler1365
parpal1369
corner-stonea1382
cunye1387
tuss1412
quoin1532
table stone1554
quoining1562
copestone1567
ground-stone1567
lock bandc1582
quinyie1588
perpender1611
whelmer1618
parpen stone1633
capstone1665
headera1684
through1683
quoin-stone1688
stretcher1693
closer1700
bed-stone1723
coping-brick1725
girder1726
footstone1728
heading brick1731
bossage1736
lewis-hole1740
shoulder1744
headstone1745
pawl1753
tail-bond1776
coping-stone1778
slocking-stone1778
throughband1794
through-stone1797
stretching-bond1805
core1823
keystone1823
tail-binder1828
stretching-stone1833
header brick1841
coign1843
pawl-stone1844
bay-stone1845
bonder1845
pillar-stone1854
bond-piece1862
stretcher-brick1867
toothing-stone1875
bond-stone1879
pierpoint1891
jumper1904
tush1905
padstone1944
1905 F. Bond Gothic Archit. 366 There may still be seen the ‘tushes’; i.e. the projecting courses on which the heads of the flying buttresses were to rest.
Derivatives
tushed adj. /tʌʃt/ having a tush or tushes; tusked.
/tʌʃt/ having a tush or tushes; tusked.ΘΚΠ
the world > animals > animal body > general parts > head and neck > [adjective] > having teeth > resembling a tusk > having a tusk
tuskedc1405
tushy1430
tushedc1440
tusky1620
society > communication > indication > insignia > heraldic devices collective > heraldic representations of creatures > [adjective] > having specific part of different tincture
ongled?1503
membered1530
unged1562
beaked1572
crested1572
crined1572
langued1572
legged1572
penned1572
unguled1572
jolloped1610
ungled1675
lingued1680
quilled1688
wattled1688
animé1730
tufted1761
tusked1766
maned1780
velloped1780
crured1804
tushedc1828
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 497/2 Toschyd, or tuskyd (P. toysshyd), colomellatus.
1652 W. Blith Eng. Improver Improved vi. 29 Plow thy Land a thin broad furrow,..or rather flay it or take off thy Skin or Turffe with a very broad whinged or tushed Share.
c1828 W. Berry Encycl. Her. I. Gloss. Tusked, or Tushed,..is said of a boar, tyger, or elephant, when their tusks are borne of a different tincture to that of the body.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1916; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
† tushn.2
Obsolete. rare.
A tuft.
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the world > plants > plants collectively > [noun] > tuft, clump, or cluster of plants
hassockc1450
tuft?1523
tusk1530
tush1570
hill1572
dollop1573
clumpa1586
rush1593
trail1597
tussock1607
wreath1610
stool1712
tump1802
sheaf1845
massif1888
the world > life > the body > hair > [noun] > tuft or ridge of
nosegayc1500
tusk1530
feathera1533
tussock1550
tush1570
flacket1589
tuz1693
coxcomb1843
comb1869
1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Qi v/1 A Tushe of heyres, crinetum. A Tushe of thornes, dumetum. A Tushe of trees, arboretum.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1916; most recently modified version published online March 2021).
tushn.4
/tʊʃ/ slang (chiefly North American).
= backside n. 3.
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the world > life > the body > external parts of body > trunk > back > buttock(s) > [noun]
flitcha700
arse-endseOE
culec1220
buttockc1300
tail1303
toutec1305
nagea1325
fundamentc1325
tail-end1377
brawna1382
buma1387
bewschers?a1400
crouponc1400
rumplec1430
lendc1440
nachec1440
luddocka1475
rearwarda1475
croupc1475
rumpc1475
dock1508
hurdies1535
bunc1538
sitting place1545
bottom?c1550
prat1567
nates1581
backside1593
crupper1594
posteriorums1596
catastrophe1600
podex1601
posterior1605
seat1607
poop1611
stern1631
cheek1639
breeka1642
doup1653
bumkin1658
bumfiddle1661
assa1672
butt1675
quarter1678
foundation1681
toby1681
bung1691
rear1716
fud1722
moon1756
derrière1774
rass1790
stern-post1810
sit-down1812
hinderland1817
hinderling1817
nancy1819
ultimatum1823
behinda1830
duff?1837
botty1842
rear end1851
latter end1852
hinder?1857
sit1862
sit-me-down1866
stern-works1879
tuchus1886
jacksy-pardy1891
sit-upon1910
can1913
truck-end1913
sitzfleisch1916
B.T.M.1919
fanny1919
bot1922
heinie1922
beam1929
yas yas1929
keister1931
batty1935
bim1935
arse-end1937
twat1937
okole1938
bahookie1939
bohunkus1941
quoit1941
patoot1942
rusty-dusty1942
dinger1943
jacksie1943
zatch1950
ding1957
booty1959
patootie1959
buns1960
wazoo1961
tush1962
1962 Amer. Speech 37 205 Another bilingual children's diminutive, tushie—from Yiddish toches or tuches ‘rump’—has appeared in phrases like tushie slide ‘a slide down a slope on one's bottom’, the delights of which a group of Midwestern Jewish children have, I am told, expressed to their Gentile social workers.
1969 P. Roth Portnoy's Complaint 47 You'd think I was a twenty-one-year-old girl; you'd think I hadn't wiped your backside and kissed your little tushy for you all those years.
1970 Pix (Austral.) 26 Dec. 11/4 Pretty young girls who walk around with..their tushes out there asking for it.
1973 N.Y. Times 10 June ii. 1/3 I felt a fork hanging from the seat of my pants. I threw it off, just like Stanley would, and the audience went wild. I mean, there were 1,100 people there, looking at me with a fork up my tush!
1977 Detroit Free Press 11 Dec. 23- a/1 Eight hundred guests danced their tushies off on the world's largest discotheque floor.
1981 G. V. Higgins Rat on Fire xxviii. 170 Her tush is tight and she's got great boobs.
1984 Miami (Florida) Herald 6 Apr. 4 b/6 (caption) So what's a damp tush between good friends?
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
tushv.2
/tʌʃ/, /tʊʃ/, U.S. /təʃ/ Originally dialect.
transitive. To pull or drag (a heavy object, esp. a log) along the ground.
ΘΚΠ
society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance by drawing along > draw along or haul [verb (transitive)] > haul timber
twitch1773
snig1790
tush1841
1841 C. H. Hartshorne Salopia Antiqua 602 Tush,..to draw a heavy weight, as tushing timber.
1882 G. F. Jackson Shropshire Word-bk. (at cited word) ‘Can yo’ carry them faggits to the 'ŏŏd-pil?’ ‘I dunna know, but if I canna carry 'em, be'appen I can tush 'em alung.’
1953 H. L. Edlin Forester's Handbk. xv. 238 Felled logs are tushed, or drawn over the ground, butt-end foremost, by hauling chains attached to a tractor, a horse-team or a winch, until the nearest hard road is reached.
1963 Times 12 Feb. 12/7 Dolgelly's eight oak pillars had originally been snaked or tushed by oxen 10 miles over the mountains from Dinas Mawddwy, where they had been grown.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
tushint.n.3
/tʌʃ/, U.S. /təʃ/ archaic.
A. int.
An exclamation of impatient contempt or disparagement.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > exclamations of contempt [interjection]
prut?c1300
trutc1330
truptc1380
ahaa1400
tushc1440
puff1481
quotha?1520
ah?1526
ta ha1528
twish1577
blurt1592
gip1592
pish1592
tantia1593
(God) bless (also save) the mark1593
phah1593
marry come up1597
mew1600
pooh1600
marry muff1602
pew waw1602
ptish1602
pew1604
push1605
pshaw1607
tuh1607
pea1608
poh1650
pooh pooh1694
hoity-toity1695
highty-tighty1699
quoz?1780
indeed1834
shuck1847
skidoo1906
suck1913
zut1915
yah boo1921
pooey1927
ptui1930
snubs1934
upya1941
yah boo sucks1980
c1440 York Myst. xxxiii. 121 Ȝa, tussch! for youre tales, þai touche not entente.
c1450 Mankind 783 in Macro Plays 29 Tysche! a flyes weynge!
a1529 J. Skelton Magnyfycence (?1530) sig. Biiii Tushe holde your pece.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Jer. v. 11 Tush, there shall no miszfortune come vpon vs.
1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet i. i. 28 Tush, tush, twill not appeare. View more context for this quotation
1678 J. Bunyan Pilgrim's Progress 251 Tush, said Obstinate, away with your book. View more context for this quotation
1791 W. Cowper tr. Homer Iliad in Iliad & Odyssey I. ii. 290 But tush,—Achilles lacks Himself the spirit of a man.
1837 N. Hawthorne Twice-told Tales (1851) II. i. 16 Tush! we have nothing to fear.
1891 F. W. Farrar Darkness & Dawn II. xlv. 116 Tush, Cæsar! be a man. Sweep aside these flies. Poison them both.
B. n.3
as a name for this utterance: esp. in †to make a tush at (or of), to scoff at, to pooh-pooh (obsolete).
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > hold in contempt [verb (transitive)] > express contempt of > vocally
hootc1175
tush1555
to make a tush at (or of)1600
pish1602
pooh-pooh1823
behoot1838
pshaw1848
pooh1858
phoo-phoo1865
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > [noun] > action of expressing contempt > vocally > specific utterance
blurt1579
puff1579
pish1593
pooh1593
tush1600
hiss1602
mew1606
pshaw1712
pooh pooh1798
poof1864
razoo1888
raspberry1890
razz1917
razzberry1920
Bronx cheer1929
big deal1949
1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. vi. xxxviii. 244 When the Tribunes..made but a tush therat.
1628 J. Earle Micro-cosmogr. xlii. sig. H1 His tush is greatest at Religion.
1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. (1906) p. xxii A tush for that snarling Crew.
a1643 J. Shute Judgem. & Mercy (1645) 128 People..that make a tush of the Devills power.
1883 R. L. Stevenson Lett. (1901) I. vi. 272 These tushes Are wearisome.
Derivatives
tush v.1 (intransitive) to say ‘tush!’; to scoff or express impatience at: also transitive to dismiss with ‘tush!’ (nonce-use).
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > hold in contempt [verb (transitive)] > express contempt of > vocally
hootc1175
tush1555
to make a tush at (or of)1600
pish1602
pooh-pooh1823
behoot1838
pshaw1848
pooh1858
phoo-phoo1865
1555 Harpsfield in Bonner Homilies 30 b [He] doth thou hym or tushe at hym.
1819 W. Scott Ivanhoe III. xiv. 357 Cedric tushed and pshawed more than once at the message.
ˈtushing n.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > [noun] > action of expressing contempt > vocally
hootinga1225
tushing1548
blurting1598
pishery pashery1600
pishing1662
pooh-poohing1853
1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. I. Luke vi. 78 Thou makest muche tushyng, and many exceptions.
1597 J. Payne Royall Exchange 11 To make men laughe at there tushinge and scoffinge of religiouse matters.
a1679 J. Brown Life of Faith (1824) II. xxii. 428 People become hardened in their sins..tushing at all threatenings.
1908 Times 9 Dec. 14/4 We overheard..an occasional pishing and tushing.
ˈtusher n. one who ‘tushes’.
ΚΠ
1883 R. L. Stevenson Lett. (1901) I. vi. 270 Every tusher tushes me so free that may I be tushed if the whole thing be worth a tush.
ˈtushery n. used by R. L. Stevenson for a conventional style of romance characterized by excessive use of affected archaisms such as ‘tush!’; gen., sentimental or romanticizing writing.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > literature > [noun] > specific types of literature > sentimental
slush1869
rose pink1872
tushery1883
schmaltz1934
society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > ornateness > [noun] > pseudo-archaic style
pseudo-archaism1877
tushery1883
godwottery1937
1883 R. L. Stevenson Let. to S. Colvin Oct. (1899) I. 285 It's great sport to write tushery.
1907 Academy 26 Jan. 96/1 This is what R. L. S. called ‘tushery’. Luckily..for those who write tushery there is an enormous reading public that does not care a fig for Life.
1921 H. Walpole Young Enchanted i. ii. 42 In literature her great period had been during the Romantic Tushery of 1895 to 1905.
1932 Times Lit. Suppl. 21 Apr. 292/4 Unlike many novelists who set their scene in Japan, Mr. John Paris indulges in no sentimental tushery about the Japanese.
1967 Guardian 16 May 7/5 What a wonderful vanished world of tushery is brought back by ‘The Desert Song’.
1981 Times 14 Oct. 13/4 The Idylls wound their endless way... Such Arthurian tushery seems far removed from..In Memoriam.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1916; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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