tush

Noun (1)

tush (plural tushes)

1. (dialectal) A tusk.
   • Perhaps one or two whose lives have patient wings, / And through whose curtains peeps no hellish nose, / No wild-boar tushes, and no mermaid's toes [...].1818, John Keats, To J. H. Reynolds, Esq.
   • […] he was still a majestic-looking pig, with a wise and benevolent appearance in spite of the fact that his tushes had never been cut.1943 November – 1944 February (date written; published 1945 August 17), George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Animal Farm […], London: Secker & Warburg, published May 1962, →OCLC
2. A small tusk sometimes found on the female Indian elephant.

Noun (2)

tush (plural tushes)

1. (US, colloquial) The buttocks.
   • Are you gonna tell Glenn?...About you and that kid, and him squeezing your tush.1998, Tim Herlihy, The Wedding Singer, spoken by Robbie Hart (Adam Sandler)

Interjection

1. (archaic) An exclamation of rebuke or scorn.
   • "Tush, Sir Minstrel," replied the archer, displeased at Bertram's interference, […]1831 June–November (date written), Jedadiah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], chapter [XIII], in Tales of My Landlord, Fourth and Last Series. […], volume IV (Castle Dangerous), Edinburgh: […]...
   • He glanced through the letter and shook his head. "Tush! tush! And the wife of the bank manager too—the bank manager of Pudlington, James! Can you conceive of anything so dreadful?"1920, Herman Cyril McNeile, chapter 1, in Bulldog Drummond

   Synonyms:

   feh, pfaugh, pish, pshaw, pooh

Noun (3)

tush (uncountable)

1. (UK, colloquial) Nonsense; tosh.

   Synonyms:

   balderdash, drivel, poppycock

Verb (1)

tush (third-person singular simple present tushes, present participle tushing, simple past and past participle tushed)

1. (intransitive) To express contempt; rebuke.

   Synonyms:

   castigate, lambaste, scold

Verb (2)

tush (third-person singular simple present tushes, present participle tushing, simple past and past participle tushed)

1. (transitive) To pull or drag a heavy object such as a tree or log.

Noun (4) capitalized: Tush

Tush (uncountable)

1. Synonym of Tushetian, the people of Tusheti in northeastern Georgia.

   Synonyms:

   Tushetian

2. The Georgian dialect spoken by the Tushetians.
3. (obsolete) Synonym of Bats, the Nakh dialect spoken by the Tushetians.
   • The Tush or Mosok appears to be fundamentally a Kistian or Tchetchenz idiom affected by Georgian influences.1879, Encyclopaedia Britannica, 9th ed., Vol. X, "Georgia", p. 434

   Synonyms:

   Bats