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cushty

/ˈkʊʃ.ti/

cushty adjective: excellent, very good.

Adjective

cushty (comparative more cushty, superlative most cushty)

  1. (Ireland, UK, slang) Excellent, very good.
    • "That's right," said Tom. "You'll be all right, though. The old dame says as how she'll be able to do it cushty. She wouldn't be doing it otherwise. You see, if anything was to happen she'd get done fer murder."1937, James Curtis, There Ain't No Justice, page 239
    • I hadn't felt that cushty since the time I went down Our Lady of the Divine Rosary for confession. As I told Father O'Keith, I'd bought some gear off Sunglasses Ron and Paddy the Greek that wasn't entirely kosher.1990, John Haselden, The Trotter Way to Millions, BBC Books, page 81

Forms of cushty

comparativemore cushty
superlativemost cushty
alternative formcushdy
alternative formcushdie
alternative formcushti
alternative formkushti

Origin of cushty

From Romani kushto, kushti (“good”). Perhaps influenced by cushy.

Questions about cushty

What does cushty mean?
Cushty means excellent, very good.
What part of speech is cushty?
Cushty is an adjective.
How do you pronounce cushty?
Cushty is pronounced /ˈkʊʃ.ti/.

Words near cushty in the dictionary

  1. cushmas
  2. cushoon
  3. cushoons
  4. cushtae
  5. cushtaes
  6. cushty
  7. cushy
  8. cushy number
  9. cushy numbers
  10. Cusic
  11. Cusick

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