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tush exclamation [ tʌʃ ]

• expressing disapproval, impatience, or dismissal.
• "tush, these are trifles and mere old wives' tales"
Origin: natural utterance: first recorded in late Middle English.

tush noun

• a long pointed tooth, in particular a canine tooth of a male horse.
Origin: Old English tusc (see tusk).

tush noun

• a person's buttocks.
• "office chairs are too often tough on the tush"
Origin: 1960s (as tushy ): from Yiddish tokhes, from Hebrew taḥaṯ ‘beneath’.


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