cush

See also: Cush

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kʊʃ/

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• (Scotland, Northern Ireland) IPA^(key): /kʉʃ/
• Rhymes: -ʊʃ
• Homophone: kush

Etymology 1

From cushty, from Romani kushto, kushti (“good”).

Adjective

cush (comparative more cush, superlative most cush)

1. (Geordie, slang) Excellent, very good.

   That car owwer there is propa cush!

Etymology 2

From cushy.

Adjective

cush

1. Cushy.
   • 2006, James E. Mueller, Towel Snapping the Press: Bush's Journey from Locker-room Antics to Message Control, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 109:

     Sherrington recalled that Bush's office in the old ballpark was "not very cush" and not what you would expect for the owner of a major league franchise.

   • 2009, D.J. MacHale, Pendragon: Raven Rise, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:

     “The Dimonds have adjoining suites. It's all very cush.” “Who died and made you manager?” Courtney asked. “I told you, we bellhops run the place. We know where all the skeletons are buried.” Courtney quipped, “From what I've heard of that hotel, that's no figure of speech.”

   • 2010, Nina Shengold, River of Words: Portraits of Hudson Valley Writers, SUNY Press, →ISBN, page 173:

     Adirondack Trailways donated bus tickets, realtors wrote checks, local farmers gave seasonal produce for catered meals. Adopted by multiracial parents, Quinn attended a “very cush” Catholic boarding school in California, […]

   • 2015, Edward John Barrington Douglas-Scott-Montagu Baron Montagu of Beaulieu, Jaguar, Chris Hedlund

     A very cush deal in which Pablo would do a small amount of time in a prison his own people designed and built. Then he would go free. The resort-like prison was so luxurious it had the DEA fuming.

   • 2018, Janna King, The Seasonaires: A Novel, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:

     Mia grinned. “Lyndon got rooms for them at The Wauwinet, which is very cush. I stayed there last night.” She whispered to Jade and J.P., “Rumor has it you two spent a night there a while back.”

Etymology 3

From cushion.

Noun

cush (plural cushes)

1. (colloquial, sports, billiards, snooker, pool) The cushion, the soft lip around the edge of the table that allows the balls to bounce cleanly.

Etymology 4

Variant of cuisse; compare cuish.

Noun

cush (plural cushes)

1. Synonym of cuisse (“armor for the thigh”)
   • 1880, “The” Archaeological Journal, page 488:

     " […] a breast and placket, taces, gorget, a burgonet with a buffe or chin peece," and also "Armour richly quilt and graven consisting of a backe, breast, cushes, a paire of kneecops, gorget, a pair of short taces, one burgonet  […] "

   • 1890, London (England). Court of Husting, Calendar of Wills Proved and Enrolled in the Court of Husting, London, A.D. 1258-A.D. 1688: A.D. 1358-1688:

     […] quissers or cushes covered with cloth of camaca, for the protection of legs and thighs (I. 649); and lastly, a bequest of a targett or shield (II. 657), and of a bokeler covered with plates of silver ...

   • 1963, Oliver Frederick Gillilan Hogg, The Royal Arsenal: Its Background, Origin, and Subsequent History:

     One black field armour unfinished compleate
     One other field armour unfinished, wanting only a pair of cushes

Etymology 5

Variant of kush.

Noun

cush (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of kush (“marijuana”)
   • 2012, Ella Monroe, Secrets and Lies: A Capital Girls Novel, St. Martin's Griffin, →ISBN, page 39:

     “Got caught smoking cush and making out with Franklin Johnson in the memorial garden.” Ugh. This girl has no class. “Did law enforcement press charges?” Lettie asked, concern seeping into her voice. Leave it to Lettie to actually care.

   • 2017, John H. Anderson III, My Road to Salvation: From Harlem to Heaven, AuthorHouse, →ISBN:

     ... there's more life than ice and smoking cush because Christ paid the price for us all so Salvation is available; for there is nothing in the streets that's capable of saving you; death, snitching and prison are your only options; ...

   • 2018, Ali Taylor, The Chronicles of WaterWorld After the Hough Riots, Dorrance Publishing, →ISBN, page 85:

     […] smoked crack in a glass pipe or choose to down play it and mix it with some tobacco in a cigarette or some cush ...

   • 2020, Clifford Lee, When Blood Flows, Page Publishing Inc, →ISBN:

     Smoking them up and getting high off the few blunts, it was nothing like when they smoked the purple cush, ...

See also

• cush-cush (etymologically unrelated)

Anagrams

• CHUs, Such, hucs, such

Spanish

Alternative forms

• cux

Etymology

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Noun

cush m (plural cushes)

1. (Guatemala) a kind of tree (Ficus sp.)