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

tush (plural tushes)

  1. (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.
  2. A small tusk sometimes found on the female Indian elephant.

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

tush (plural tushes)

  1. (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.

A natural utterance (OED).

tush

  1. (archaic) An exclamation of rebuke or scorn. [from 15th c.]

exclamation of rebuke

tush (uncountable)

  1. (British, colloquial) Nonsense; tosh.

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

  1. (intransitive) To express contempt; rebuke.

Unknown.

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. [from 1841]

From British slang tusheroon.

tush (plural tushes)

  1. (UK, obsolete slang) Clipping of tusheroon, itself an alternative form of tosheroon.

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

tush (plural tushlar)

  1. dream