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▪ I. tush, n.1|tʌʃ|
Forms: α. 1 tusc, 4 tussche, 4–6 tusche, 5 tusshe, 6– tush. β. 4 tossche, 5 tosch(e, toyssh, 6 (9 dial.) tosh.
[ME. tus(s)ch, tos(s)ch, normal representatives of OE. tusc (see tusk n.1); partly specialized in use.]
1. = tusk n.1 1. Now chiefly arch. or dial.
αc725Corpus Gloss. G. 62 Genuino, tusc. c1050in Wr.-Wülcker 489 Genuinis, tuscum. 13..Seuyn Sages (W.) 914 The tusches in the tre he smit. 13..Gaw. & Gr. Knt. 1573 [The boar] Whettez his whyte tuschez. 1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xviii. xxxi. (Bodl. MS.), Beestes wiþ teeþ and tussches in aiþer iowe haue none hornes. c1410Master of Game (MS. Digby 82) v, Men beyonde þe see calleth þe neither tusshes of þe boore his armes, or elles his files,..also þei calleth his tusshes aboue gres. 1576Turberv. Venerie 150 Amonge the reste they have foure [teeth],..and we call them Tuskes or Tusches. 1621G. Sandys Ovid's Met. viii. (1626) 157 His tushes equall those Of Indian Elephants. 1672J. Josselyn New Eng. Rarities 97 Morse, or Sea Horse, having a great Head,..armed with Tushes as white as Ivory. 1737Stackhouse Hist. Bible (1767) VI. vi. iii. 77 The whale has neither teeth nor tushes. 1848Kingsley Saint's Trag. ii. viii. 299 He is an old boar, and honest; he wears his tushes outside, for a warning to all men.
β13..Seuyn Sages (W.) 911 The bor..wette his tossches and his fet. c1440Promp. Parv. 497/2 Tosche, longe tothe (Winch. MS. tosch; Pynson toyssh), colomellus, culmus. a1563Becon Humble Supplic. Wks. iii. 22 Whose teeth ar like to y⊇ venomous toshes of y⊇ rampyng lyon. 1823–78in dial. glossaries (E. Anglia, Northumb., Cumb.).
b. spec. A canine tooth, esp. of a horse: cf. tusk n.1 1 b.
1607Markham Caval. i. iv. (1617) 28 At fiue yeares olde he changes his tushes. 1610― Masterp. ii. clxvii. 477 The [horse's] tush will be white, small, short, and sharp. c1720W. Gibson Farrier's Guide i. vi. (1738) 86 The canini or Dog teeth, which in Horses are called the Tushes. 1766Pennant Zool. (1768) I. 107 The Hedge hog... In each jaw are two sharp pointed cutting teeth: in the upper jaw are on each side four tushes, and five grinders: in the lower..three tushes..and..four grinders. 1850Smedley F. Fairlegh xl, Rising five and six..tush well up in one, and nicely through in the other.
c. A stunted tusk in some Indian elephants.
1859Tennent Ceylon II. viii. i. 274 Not one elephant in a hundred is found with tusks in Ceylon... Nearly all, however, have those stunted processes which are called tushes, about ten or twelve inches in length and one or two in diameter. 1859All Year Round No. 32. 129 All the untusked elephants of Ceylon have ‘tushes’,..which they use in snapping off small branches. 1878J. Gibson in Encycl. Brit. VIII. 125/1 The male [Ceylon elephant]..generally has a pair of upper incisors, known as ‘tushes’, about a foot long, and one or two inches in diameter. 1900Pollok & Thom Sports Burma ii. 35 The result of the cross-breed is that you get large males with very poor tusks, but still tusks, as distinct from tushes.
2. In a plough: = fin n.1 3 b. Obs. exc. dial.
1649W. Blithe Eng. Improv. Impr. (1653) 193 The Tush or Phin of the Share will whelm the more being set down to the work which is the Levell or bottom of the head. 1787Grose Provinc. Gloss., Tush, the wing of a ploughshare. Glouc. 1894S.E. Worc. Gloss., Tush, (1) the broad part of a plough-share.
3. Arch. (See quot. and cf. tuss.)
1905Bond Gothic Archit. 366 There may still be seen the ‘tushes’; i.e. the projecting courses on which the heads of the flying buttresses were to rest.
Hence tushed |tʌʃt| a., having a tush or tushes; tusked.
c1440Promp. Parv. 497/2 Toschyd, or tuskyd (P. toysshyd), colomellatus. 1649W. Blithe Eng. Improv. Impr. (1653) 29 Plow thy Land a thin broad furrow,..or rather flay it, or take off thy Skin or Turf with a very broad whinged or tushed share. c1828[see tusked a. b].
▪ II. † tush, n.2 Obs. rare.
[Variant of tusk n.2; for the form cf. prec.]
A tuft.
1570Levins Manip. 193/39–41 A Tushe of heyres, crinetum. A Tushe of thornes, dumetum. A Tushe of trees, arboretum.
▪ III. tush, n.3
see tush int.
▪ IV. tush, n.4 slang (chiefly N. Amer.).|tʊʃ|
Also tushie, -y.
[Abbrev. or dim. of tochus.]
= backside 3.
1962Amer. Speech XXXVII. 205 Another bilingual children's diminutive, tushie—from Yiddish toches or tuches ‘rump’—has appeared in phrases like tushie slide ‘a slide down a slope on one's bottom’, the delights of which a group of Midwestern Jewish children have, I am told, expressed to their Gentile social workers. 1969P. Roth Portnoy's Complaint 47 You'd think I was a twenty-one-year-old girl; you'd think I hadn't wiped your backside and kissed your little tushy for you all those years. 1970Pix (Austral.) 26 Dec. 11/4 Pretty young girls who walk around with..their tushes out there asking for it. 1973N.Y. Times 10 June ii. 1/3, I felt a fork hanging from the seat of my pants. I threw it off, just like Stanley would, and the audience went wild. I mean, there were 1,100 people there, looking at me with a fork up my tush! 1977Detroit Free Press 11 Dec. 23-a/1 Eight hundred guests danced their tushies off on the world's largest discotheque floor. 1981G. V. Higgins Rat on Fire xxviii. 170 Her tush is tight and she's got great boobs. 1984Miami (Florida) Herald 6 Apr. 4b/6 (caption) So what's a damp tush between good friends?
▪ V. tush, int. (n.3) arch.|tʌʃ|
Forms: 5 tussch, tysche, 6 tusche, tusshe, tushe, tuch, 6– tush.
[A natural utterance: cf. twish.]
An exclamation of impatient contempt or disparagement.
c1440York Myst. xxxiii. 121 Ȝa, tussch! for youre tales, þai touche not entente. c1450Mankind 783 in Macro Plays 29 Tysche! a flyes weynge! c1520Skelton Magnyf. 591 Tushe! holde your pece. 1535Coverdale Jer. v. 11 Tush, there shall no miszfortune come vpon vs. 1602Shakes. Ham. i. i. 29 Tush, tush, 'twill not appeare. 1678Bunyan Pilgr. i. 251 Tush, said Obstinate, away with your book. 1791Cowper Iliad ii. 290 But tush,—Achilles lacks Himself the spirit of a man. 1837Hawthorne Twice-told T. (1851) II. i. 16 Tush! we have nothing to fear. 1891Farrar Darkn. & Dawn xlv, Tush, Cæsar! be a man. Sweep aside these flies. Poison them both.
B. n. as a name for this utterance: esp. in phr. † to make a tush at (or of), to scoff at, to pooh-pooh (obs.).
1600Holland Livy vi. xxxviii. 244 When the Tribunes..made but a tush therat. 1628Earle Microcosm., Worlds wise Man (Arb.) 61 His tush is greatest at Religion. 1632Lithgow Trav. (1906) p. xxii, A tush for that snarling Crew. a1643J. Shute Judgement & Mercy (1645) 128 People..that make a tush of the Devills power. 1883R. L. Stevenson Lett. (1901) I. vi. 272 These tushes Are wearisome.
Hence tush v.1, intr. to say ‘tush!’, to scoff or express impatience at: also trans. to dismiss with ‘tush!’ (nonce-use); whence ˈtushing vbl. n.; also ˈtusher, one who ‘tushes’; ˈtushery, used by R. L. Stevenson for a conventional style of romance characterized by excessive use of affected archaisms such as ‘tush!’; gen., sentimental or romanticizing writing.
1548Udall Erasm. Par. Luke vi. 78 Thou makest muche tushyng, and many exceptions. 1555Harpsfield in Bonner Homilies 30 b, [He] doth thou hym or tushe at hym. 1597J. Payne Royal Exch. 11 To make men laughe at there tushinge and scoffinge of religiouse matters. 1679J. Brown Life of Faith (1824) II. xxii. 428 People become hardened in their sins..tushing at all threatenings. 1819Scott Ivanhoe xl[i]v, Cedric tushed and pshawed more than once at the message. 1883R. L. Stevenson Lett. (1901) I. vi. 270 Every tusher tushes me so free that may I be tushed if the whole thing be worth a tush. 1883― Let. to Colvin Oct. (1899) I. 285 It's great sport to write tushery. 1907Academy 26 Jan. 96/1 This is what R. L. S. called ‘tushery’. Luckily..for those who write tushery there is an enormous reading public that does not care a fig for Life. 1908Times 9 Dec. 14/4 We overheard..an occasional pishing and tushing. 1921H. S. Walpole Young Enchanted i. ii. 42 In literature her great period had been during the Romantic Tushery of 1895 to 1905. 1932Times Lit. Suppl. 21 Apr. 292/4 Unlike many novelists who set their scene in Japan, Mr. John Paris indulges in no sentimental tushery about the Japanese. 1967Guardian 16 May 7/5 What a wonderful vanished world of tushery is brought back by ‘The Desert Song’. 1981Times 14 Oct. 13/4 The Idylls wound their endless way... Such Arthurian tushery seems far removed from..In Memoriam.
▪ VI. tush, v.2 orig. dial.|tʊʃ, tʌʃ|
[Origin unknown.]
trans. To pull or drag (a heavy object, esp. a log) along the ground.
1841C. H. Hartshorne Salopia Antiqua 602 Tush,..to draw a heavy weight, as tushing timber. 1879G. F. Jackson Shropshire Word-bk. 458 ‘Can yo’ carry them faggits to the 'ŏŏd-pil?’ ‘I dunna know, but if I canna carry 'em, be'appen I can tush 'em alung.’ 1953H. L. Edlin Forester's Handbk. xv. 238 Felled logs are tushed, or drawn over the ground, butt-end foremost, by hauling chains attached to a tractor, a horse-team or a winch, until the nearest hard road is reached. 1963Times 12 Feb. 12/7 Dolgelly's eight oak pillars had originally been snaked or tushed by oxen 10 miles over the mountains from Dinas Mawddwy, where they had been grown. |