• enPR: tŭsh, IPA: /tʌʃ/

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 [...].

   • 1945 August 17, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter 1, in Animal Farm: A Fairy Story, London: Secker & Warburg, OCLC 3655473 ↗:

     […] 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.

• enPR: to͝osh, IPA: /tʊʃ/

tush (plural tushes)

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

• French: derrière, postérieur
• Spanish: trasero

• enPR: tŭsh, IPA: /tʌʃ/

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

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

tush (uncountable)

1. (British, colloquial) Nonsense; tosh.

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

tush (tushes, present participle tushing; past and past participle tushed)

1. (intransitive) To express contempt; rebuke.

• castigate, lambaste, scold; see also Thesaurus:criticize

• enPR to͝osh, IPA: /tʊʃ/, /tʌʃ/

tush (tushes, present participle tushing; past and past participle tushed)

1. (transitive) To pull or drag a heavy object such as a tree or log. [from 1841]

• enPR: tŭsh, IPA: /tʌʃ/

tush (plural tushes)

1. (UK, obsolete slang) Clipping of tusheroon#English|tusheroon, itself an Alternative form of tosheroon.

tush (uncountable)

1. Synonym of Tushetian#English|Tushetian, the people of Tusheti in northeastern Georgia.
2. The Georgian dialect spoken by the Tushetians.
3. (obsolete) Synonym of Bats#English|Bats, the Nakh dialect spoken by the Tushetians.
   • 1879, Encyclopaedia Britannica, 9th ed., Vol. X, "Georgia", p. 434:

     The Tush or Mosok appears to be fundamentally a Kistian or Tchetchenz idiom affected by Georgian influences.