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Tush definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

TUSH, an exclamation, indicating check, rebuke or contempt. Tush, tush, never tell me such a story as that.
TUSH, n. A tooth.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on; "he deserves a good kick in the butt"; "are you going to sit on your fanny and do nothing?" [syn: buttocks, nates, arse, butt, backside, bum, buns, can, fundament, hindquarters, hind end, keister, posterior, prat, rear, rear end, rump, stern, seat, tail, tail end, tooshie, tush, bottom, behind, derriere, fanny, ass]

Merriam Webster's

I. noun Etymology: Middle English tusch, from Old English t?sc; akin to Old Frisian tusk tooth, Old English t?th tooth Date: before 12th century a long pointed tooth; especially a horse's canine II. interjection Etymology: Middle English tussch Date: 15th century — used to express disdain or reproach III. noun Etymology: perhaps modification of Yiddish tokhes, from Hebrew ta?ath under, beneath Date: 1970 slang buttocks

Oxford Reference Dictionary

1. int. archaic expressing strong disapproval or scorn. Etymology: ME: imit. 2. n. 1 a long pointed tooth, esp. a canine tooth of a horse. 2 an elephant's short tusk. Etymology: OE tusc TUSK

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Tush Tush, interj. An exclamation indicating check, rebuke, or contempt; as, tush, tush! do not speak of it. Tush, say they, how should God perceive it? --Bk. of Com. Prayer (Ps. lxxiii. 11).

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Tush Tush, n. [OE. tusch, AS. tusc; akin to OFries. tusk, tusch, and probably to AS. t[=o][eth] tooth. See Tooth, and cf. Tusk.] A long, pointed tooth; a tusk; -- applied especially to certain teeth of horses.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

I. interj. Pshaw. II. n. See tusk.

Moby Thesaurus

arse, ass, baby tooth, bicuspid, bucktooth, bum, can, canine, cheeks, crown, cuspid, cutter, deciduous tooth, dent, denticle, denticulation, dentil, dentition, dogtooth, eyetooth, fang, fanny, fore tooth, gagtooth, gang tooth, gold tooth, grinder, incisor, keister, milk tooth, molar, peg, permanent tooth, pivot tooth, prat, premolar, rusty-dusty, scrivello, snag, snaggletooth, stern, tail, tooth, tuchis, tushy, tusk, wisdom tooth