Tushとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• enPR: tŭsh, IPA: /tʌʃ/
• (Northern England, Ireland) IPA: /tʊʃ/
• 韻: -ʌʃ

名詞

tush (plural tushes)

1. (now dialectal) A tusk.
   • 1818, John Keats, To J. H. Reynolds, Esq.:

     Perhaps one or two whose lives have patient wings, / And through whose curtains peeps no hellish nose, / No wild-boar tushes, and no mermaid's toes [...].

   • 1943 November – 1944 February (date written; published 1945 August 17), George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Animal Farm […], London: Secker & Warburg, published May 1962, →OCLC:

     […] he was still a majestic-looking pig, with a wise and benevolent appearance in spite of the fact that his tushes had never been cut.

2. A small tusk sometimes found on the female Indian elephant.

派生語

語源 2

Short for toches, from Yiddish תחת (tokhes), from Hebrew תַּחַת (taḥaṯ, “bottom”).

別の表記

• toosh

発音

• enPR: to͝osh, IPA: /tʊʃ/
• 韻: -ʊʃ

名詞

tush (plural tushes)

1. (US, colloquial) The buttocks. [from 1914]
   • 1998, Tim Herlihy, The Wedding Singer, spoken by Robbie Hart (Adam Sandler):

     Are you gonna tell Glenn?...About you and that kid, and him squeezing your tush.

派生語

• tushie
• Tush Push
• tushy

語源 3

A natural utterance (OED).

発音

• enPR: tŭsh, IPA: /tʌʃ/
• 韻: -ʌʃ

間投詞

tush

1. (archaic) An exclamation of rebuke or scorn. [from 15th c.]
   • 1831 June–November (date written), Jedadiah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], chapter [XIII], in Tales of My Landlord, Fourth and Last Series. […], volume IV (Castle Dangerous), Edinburgh: […] [Ballantyne and Company] for Robert Cadell; London: Whittaker and Co., published 1 December 1831 (indicated as 1832), →OCLC, page 275:

     "Tush, Sir Minstrel," replied the archer, displeased at Bertram's interference, […]

   • 1920, Herman Cyril McNeile, chapter 1, in Bulldog Drummond:

     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?"

同意語

• (exclamation of scorn): feh, pfaugh, pish, pshaw, pooh; see also Thesaurus:bah

名詞

tush (uncountable)

1. (British, colloquial) Nonsense; tosh.

同意語

• balderdash, drivel, poppycock; see also Thesaurus:nonsense

派生語

動詞

tush (third-person singular simple present tushes, present participle tushing, simple past and past participle tushed)

1. (intransitive) To express contempt; rebuke.

同意語

• castigate, lambaste, scold; see also Thesaurus:criticize

語源 4

Unknown.

発音

• enPR: to͝osh, tŭsh, IPA: /tʊʃ/, /tʌʃ/
• 韻: -ʊʃ, -ʌʃ

動詞

tush (third-person singular simple present tushes, present participle tushing, simple past and past participle tushed)

1. (transitive) To pull or drag a heavy object such as a tree or log. [from 1841]

語源 5

From British slang tusheroon.

発音

• enPR: tŭsh, IPA: /tʌʃ/
• 韻: -ʌʃ

名詞

tush (plural tushes)

1. (UK, obsolete slang) Clipping of tusheroon, itself an alternative form of tosheroon.

アナグラム

• thus, Hust, huts, Thus, shut, STHU