tush n : 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?" [syn: 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, bottom, behind, derriere, fanny, ass]

English

Etymology 1

Short for toches, from the Yiddish tokhes, which is from Hebrew תחת, meaning "under". Since 1914.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ʊʃ

Noun

1. (US) The buttocks.
2. nonsense; tosh

Derived terms

• tushie
• tushy

Translations

• French: derrière, postérieur

Etymology 2

A "natural utterance" (OED), attested since the 15th century

Interjection

tush

1. an exclamation of contempt

Etymology 3

of unknown origin, attested since 1841.

Verb

1. To pull or drag (of a heavy object such as a tree or log).

Tush may mean:

• A slang term for the buttocks
• Any of the canine teeth of a horse
• Tush, the Bats language of the Bats people, who originate from Tusheti
• Tush (song), a song by ZZ Top from their album Fandango!
• Tush, a song by Ghostface Killah from his album The Pretty Toney Album
• Tush (band), a band that at one time featured Def Leppard guitarist Phil Collen

arse, ass, baby tooth, bicuspid, bucktooth, bum, can, canine, cheeks, crown, cuspid, cutter, deciduous tooth, dent, denticle, denticulation, dentil, dentition, dogtooth, eyetooth, fang, fanny, fore tooth, gagtooth, gang tooth, gold tooth, grinder, incisor, keister, milk tooth, molar, peg, permanent tooth, pivot tooth, prat, premolar, rusty-dusty, scrivello, snag, snaggletooth, stern, tail, tooth, tuchis, tushy, tusk, wisdom tooth