In 1511, leaders in Mecca believed coffee stimulated radical thinking and outlawed the drink. In 1524, the leaders overturned that order, and people could drink coffee again.
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
(noun) 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?”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Tush (uncountable)
synonym of Tushetian, the people of Tusheti in northeastern Georgia.
The Georgian dialect spoken by the Tushetians.
(obsolete) synonym of Bats, the Nakh dialect spoken by the Tushetians.
• Hust, STHU, huts, shut, thus
tush (plural tushes)
(now dialectal) A tusk.
A small tusk sometimes found on the female Indian elephant.
tush (plural tushes)
(US, colloquial) The buttocks. [from 1914]
A natural utterance (OED).
tush
An exclamation of contempt or rebuke. [from 15th c.]
• (exclamation of contempt): feh, pfaugh, pish, pshaw, pooh; see also bah
tush (uncountable)
(British, colloquial) Nonsense; tosh.
• balderdash, drivel, poppycock; see also nonsense
tush (third-person singular simple present tushes, present participle tushing, simple past and past participle tushed)
(intransitive) To express contempt; rebuke.
• castigate, lambaste, scold; see also criticize
tush (third-person singular simple present tushes, present participle tushing, simple past and past participle tushed)
(transitive) To pull or drag a heavy object such as a tree or log. [from 1841]
tush (plural tushes)
(UK, obsolete slang) Clipping of tusheroon, itself an alternative form of tosheroon.
• Hust, STHU, huts, shut, thus
Source: Wiktionary
Tush, interj.
Definition: 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).
Tush, n. Etym: [OE. tusch, AS. tusc; akin to OFries. tusk, tusch, and probably to AS. toedh tooth. See Tooth, and cf. Tusk.]
Definition: A long, pointed tooth; a tusk; -- applied especially to certain teeth of horses.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
22 September 2024
(noun) a beginning from which an enterprise is launched; “he uses other people’s ideas as a springboard for his own”; “reality provides the jumping-off point for his illusions”; “the point of departure of international comparison cannot be an institution but must be the function it carries out”
In 1511, leaders in Mecca believed coffee stimulated radical thinking and outlawed the drink. In 1524, the leaders overturned that order, and people could drink coffee again.