tush

Meanings

Noun

• A tusk.
• A small tusk sometimes found on the female Indian elephant.
• The buttocks.
• Nonsense; tosh.
• Short form of tusheroon, itself an Alternative of tosheroon.

Verb

• To express contempt; rebuke.
• To pull or drag a heavy object such as a tree or log.

Origin

• From Middle English tusshe, tusche, tussch, tossche, tosch, from Old English tūsc, from Proto-Germanic *tunþskaz. tusk.
• Short for toches, from Yiddish תחת, from Hebrew תַּחַת.
• A natural utterance (OED).
• Of unknown origin.
• From British slang tusheroon.