cush

Adjective (1)

cush (comparative more cush, superlative most cush)

1. (Geordie, slang) Excellent, very good.
   • That car owwer there is propa cush!

Adjective (2)

cush

1. Cushy.
   • Sherrington recalled that Bush's office in the old ballpark was "not very cush" and not what you would expect for the owner of a major league franchise.2006, James E. Mueller, Towel Snapping the Press: Bush's Journey from Locker-room Antics to Message Control, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 109
   • “The Dimonds have adjoining suites. It's all very cush.” “Who died and made you manager?” Courtney asked. “I told you, we bellhops run the place. We know where all the skeletons are buried.” Courtney quipped, “From what I've heard of that hotel, that's no figure of speech.”2009, D.J. MacHale, Pendragon: Raven Rise, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN

Noun (1)

cush (plural cushes)

1. (colloquial) The cushion, the soft lip around the edge of the table that allows the balls to bounce cleanly.

Noun (2)

cush (plural cushes)

1. Synonym of cuisse (“armor for the thigh”).
   • "[…]a breast and placket, taces, gorget, a burgonet with a buffe or chin peece," and also "Armour richly quilt and graven consisting of a backe, breast, cushes, a paire of kneecops, gorget, a pair of short taces, one burgonet […]"1880, “The” Archaeological Journal, page 488
   • […] quissers or cushes covered with cloth of camaca, for the protection of legs and thighs (I. 649); and lastly, a bequest of a targett or shield (II. 657), and of a bokeler covered with plates of silver ...1890, London (England). Court of Husting, Calendar of Wills Proved and Enrolled in the Court of Husting, London, A.D. 1258-A.D. 1688: A.D. 1358-1688

   Synonyms:

   cuisse

Proper noun capitalized: Cush

IPA/kʌʃ/

Cush

1. The son of Ham, grandson of Noah, and supposed progenitor of the African peoples.
2. A Benjamite mentioned only in the title of Psalm 7.
3. An Iron Age kingdom on the middle Nile, in what is now northern Sudan.

Noun (3) capitalized: Cush

Cush (uncountable)

1. (alternative) Alternative form of kush (“marijuana”).
   • He loved smoking joints and couldn't handle blunts. […] I also had him backstage smoking Cush with Jeezy and Will.2013, Chauncey "Chino Dolla" Stevens, Antoine "Don Twan" Robinson, A Hustler's Dream I: Grinding in Atlanta's Hip Hop Underworld, MasterMind Publishing, Inc., →ISBN, page 239
   • I couldn't work with my hands anymore. To make money I started selling Cush, which was considered to be fake weed. It stopped the pain in my hands. I was addicted to the fake crap. I was smoking more ...2020, Samuel Van Ness IV, A Stranger Within (HC), Dorrance Publishing, →ISBN, page 289