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plural tushes
(now dialectal) A tusk. quotations examples
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
A small tusk sometimes found on the female Indian elephant. examples
(US, colloquial) The buttocks. quotations examples
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)
An exclamation of contempt or rebuke. quotations examples
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? But I'm afraid Mrs. Bank Manager is a puss—a distinct puss. It's when they get on the soul-mate stunt that the furniture begins to fly."
1920, Herman Cyril McNeile, chapter 1, in Bulldog Drummond
uncountable
(British, colloquial) Nonsense; tosh. examples
third-person singular simple present tushes, present participle tushing, simple past and past participle tushed
(intransitive) To express contempt; rebuke. examples
(transitive) To pull or drag a heavy object such as a tree or log. examples
(UK, obsolete slang) Clipping of tusheroon, itself an alternative form of tosheroon.