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tush
/tʌʃ/
noun 8verb 2intj 1
Collocations
3VERB + TUSH
get, head, shook, squeezing
TUSH + NOUN
minstrel, mosok, sir, wife
PREP.
off
Definitions
noun
1
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 [...].
[…] 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.
noun
1
The buttocks.
Are you gonna tell Glenn?...About you and that kid, and him squeezing your tush.
intj
1
An exclamation of rebuke or scorn.
"Tush, Sir Minstrel," replied the archer, displeased at Bertram's interference, […]
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?"
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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 [...].
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[…] 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.
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Are you gonna tell Glenn?...About you and that kid, and him squeezing your tush.
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"Tush, Sir Minstrel," replied the archer, displeased at Bertram's interference, […]
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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?"
Wiktionary06
The Tush or Mosok appears to be fundamentally a Kistian or Tchetchenz idiom affected by Georgian influences.
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