# tush
## English
### Etymology 1

From Middle English tusshe, tusche, tussch, tossche, tosch, from Old English tūsc, from Proto-Germanic *tunþskaz. Doublet of tusk.

#### Pronunciation

* enPR: tŭsh, IPA: /tʌʃ/
** Audio (Southern England):(file)
* (Northern England, Ireland) IPA: /tʊʃ/
* Rhymes: -ʌʃ

#### Noun

tush (plural tushes)
* (now dialectal) A tusk.
** 1818, John Keats, To J. H. Reynolds, Esq.: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 [...].
** 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:[…] 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.
* A small tusk sometimes found on the female Indian elephant.

### Etymology 2

Short for toches, from Yiddish תחת (tokhes), from Hebrew תַּחַת (taḥaṯ, “bottom”).

#### Alternative forms

* toosh

#### Pronunciation

* enPR: to͝osh, IPA: /tʊʃ/
** Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Audio (General Australian):(file)
* Rhymes: -ʊʃ

#### Noun

tush (plural tushes)
* (US, colloquial) The buttocks. [from 1914]
** 1998, Tim Herlihy, The Wedding Singer, spoken by Robbie Hart (Adam Sandler):Are you gonna tell Glenn?...About you and that kid, and him squeezing your tush.

##### Derived terms

* tushie
* tushy

##### Translations
### Etymology 3

A natural utterance (OED).

#### Pronunciation

* enPR: tŭsh, IPA: /tʌʃ/
** Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -ʌʃ

#### Interjection

tush
* (archaic) An exclamation of rebuke or scorn. [from 15th c.]
** 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: […] [Ballantyne and Company] for Robert Cadell; London: Whittaker and Co., published 1 December 1831 (indicated as 1832), →OCLC, page 275:"Tush, Sir Minstrel," replied the archer, displeased at Bertram's interference, […]
** 1920, Herman Cyril McNeile, chapter 1, in Bulldog Drummond: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?"

##### Synonyms

* (exclamation of scorn): feh, pfaugh, pish, pshaw, pooh; see also Thesaurus:bah

#### Noun

tush (uncountable)
* (British, colloquial) Nonsense; tosh.

##### Synonyms

* balderdash, drivel, poppycock; see also Thesaurus:nonsense

##### Derived terms

* pishtush

#### Verb

tush (third-person singular simple present tushes, present participle tushing, simple past and past participle tushed)
* (intransitive) To express contempt; rebuke.

##### Synonyms

* castigate, lambaste, scold; see also Thesaurus:criticize

### Etymology 4

Unknown.

#### Pronunciation

* enPR: to͝osh, tŭsh, IPA: /tʊʃ/, /tʌʃ/
** Audio (Southern England):(file)
** Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -ʊʃ, -ʌʃ

#### Verb

tush (third-person singular simple present tushes, present participle tushing, simple past and past participle tushed)
* (transitive) To pull or drag a heavy object such as a tree or log. [from 1841]

### Etymology 5

From British slang tusheroon.

#### Pronunciation

* enPR: tŭsh, IPA: /tʌʃ/
** Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -ʌʃ

#### Noun

tush (plural tushes)
* (UK, obsolete slang) Clipping of tusheroon, itself an alternative form of tosheroon.

### Anagrams

* thus, Hust, huts, Thus, shut, STHU

## Uzbek
### Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *tǖĺ (“dream”). Compare Turkish düş (“dream”).

### Noun

tush (plural tushlar)
* dream