different between lush vs tush

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l??/
• Rhymes: -??

Etymology 1

From Middle English lusch (“slack, relaxed, limp, loose”), from Old English *lysc, lesc (“slack; limp”), from Proto-Germanic *laskwaz (“weak, false, feeble”), from Proto-Indo-European *l?y- (“to let; leave behind”). Akin to Old English lysu, lesu (“false, evil, base”), Middle Low German lasch (“slack”), Middle High German erleswen (“to become weak”), Old Norse l?skr (“weak, feeble”), Gothic ???????????????????????? (lasiws, “weak, feeble”), Middle Low German las, lasich (“slack, languid, idle”), Low German lusch (“loose”). Doublet of lusk. More at lishey, lazy.

Adjective

lush (comparative lusher, superlative lushest)

1. Juicy, succulent.

   Synonyms: sapful, sappy
2. (dialectal) Mellow; soft; (of ground or soil) easily turned; fertile.
3. (of vegetation) Dense, teeming with life; luxuriant.
4. (of food) Savoury, delicious.

5. (miscellaneous) Thriving; rife; sumptuous.
6. (Britain, slang) Beautiful, sexy.

7. (Britain, Canada, slang) Amazing, cool, fantastic, wicked.

8. (obsolete) Lax; slack; limp; flexible.

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Translations

Etymology 2

Perhaps a humorous use of the preceding word, or perhaps from Shelta lush (“food and drink”) (the sense "liquor" is older than the sense "drinker"). The Century Dictionary wrote that it was "said to be so called from one Lushington, a once well-known London brewer", but the Online Etymology Dictionary considers lushington (“drinker”) a humorous extension of lush instead.

Noun

lush (countable and uncountable, plural lushes)

1. (slang, derogatory) A drunkard, sot, alcoholic.

   Synonyms: souse, suck-pint; see also Thesaurus:drunkard

2. (slang) intoxicating liquor

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:alcoholic beverage

   • 1841, Charles Lever, Charles O'Malley

     If your care comes, in the liquor sink it, / Pass along the lush — I'm the boy can drink it.

3. (Hawaii, Pidgin, slang) A person who enjoys talking about themselves.

   Synonyms: egotist, narcissist

Translations

Verb

lush (third-person singular simple present lushes, present participle lushing, simple past and past participle lushed)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To drink (liquor) to excess.

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Translations

References

Anagrams

• Uhls, Ulsh, shul

Albanian

Etymology

Check lushë.

Noun

lush m

1. male dog
2. hooligan

Related terms

• lushë

English

Etymology 1

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

Pronunciation

• enPR: t?sh, IPA^(key): /t??/
• Rhymes: -??

Noun

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 [...].

   • […] 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.

Etymology 2

Short for toches, from Yiddish ???? (tokhes), from Hebrew ??????? (ta?a?, “bottom”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: to?osh, IPA^(key): /t??/
• Rhymes: -??

Noun

tush (plural tushes)

1. (US, colloquial) The buttocks. [from 1914]

Derived terms

• tushie
• tushy

Translations

Etymology 3

A natural utterance (OED).

Pronunciation

• enPR: t?sh, IPA^(key): /t??/
• Rhymes: -??

Interjection

tush

1. An exclamation of contempt or rebuke. [from 15th c.]

Synonyms

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

Noun

tush (uncountable)

1. (Britain, colloquial) Nonsense; tosh.

Synonyms

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

Verb

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; see also Thesaurus:criticize

Etymology 4

Of unknown origin.

Pronunciation

• enPR: to?osh, t?sh, IPA^(key): /t??/, /t??/
• Rhymes: -??, -??

Verb

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]

Etymology 5

From British slang tusheroon.

Pronunciation

• enPR: t?sh, IPA^(key): /t??/
• Rhymes: -??

Noun

tush (plural tushes)

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

Anagrams

• Hust, STHU, huts, shut, thus

Uzbek

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *t?? (“dream”), compare Turkish dü? (“dream”).

Noun

tush (plural tushlar)

1. dream