tush
noun
- a person’s buttocks
interjection
- interjection used to express disdain or reproach
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /tʌʃ/ / /tʊʃ/
intj
Etymology: A natural utterance (OED).
- An exclamation of rebuke or scorn.
“"Tush, Sir Minstrel," replied the archer, displeased at Bertram's interference, […]”
“He glanced through the letter and shook his head. "Tush! tush! And the wife of the bank manager too—the bank manager of Pudlington, James! Can you conceive of anything so dreadful?"”
noun
Etymology: From British slang tusheroon.
- Clipping of tusheroon, itself an alternative form of tosheroon.
verb
Etymology: Unknown.
- To pull or drag a heavy object such as a tree or log.