different between tush vs dush

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

English

Alternative forms

• doush, duish, doist, doose, doosht (Scotland)

Etymology

From Middle English dusshen, duschen, perhaps from Old English dw?s?an (“to put out, extinguish, destroy”) (see adwesch). Cognate with Middle Low German duschen, German dialectal duschen (“to beat, butt”). Compare also West Frisian dúste (“to push, thrust, poke”).

Verb

dush (third-person singular simple present dushes, present participle dushing, simple past and past participle dushed)

1. (transitive, Britain dialectal) To strike or push violently; (of an animal) to strike with the horns; butt.
2. (intransitive, Britain dialectal) To fall violently; dash down; move with violence.

Derived terms

• dushed/dusht

Anagrams

• HUDs, huds, shud

Albanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French douche.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /du?/

Noun

dush m (indefinite plural dushe, definite singular dushi, definite plural dushet)

1. showerhead
2. shower

Declension

Karakalpak

Noun

dush

1. shower