Lushed vs Tushed - What's the difference?
lushed | tushed |
(lush)
(obsolete) Lax; slack; limp; flexible.
(dialectal) Mellow; soft; (of ground or soil) easily turned.
(of vegetation) Dense, teeming with life.
* 2006 , Stefani Jackenthal, New York Times
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(slang, of food) Luxuriant, delicious.
(British, slang) Beautiful, sexy.
(British, Canada, slang) Amazing, cool, fantastic, wicked.
(pejorative) Drunkard, sot, alcoholic.
Intoxicating liquor.
To drink liquor to excess.
To drink (liquor) to excess.
(tush)
A tusk.
* 1818 , John Keats, "To J. H. Reynolds, Esq.":
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A small tusk sometimes found on the female Indian elephant.
(US, colloquial) The buttocks
(An exclamation of contempt or rebuke).
* 1920 , (Herman Cyril McNeile), Bulldog Drummond Chapter 1
(British, colloquial) Nonsense; tosh.
To pull or drag a heavy object such as a tree or log.
As verbs the difference between lushed and tushed
is that lushed is past tense of lush while tushed is past tense of tush.lushed
English
Verb
(head)lush
English
(wikipedia lush)Etymology 1
From (etyl) . Related to (m). More at (l), (l).Adjective
(er)- Some of the world’s best rain forest and volcanic hiking can be found within the lush canopied Caribbean trail systems. Chock-full of waterfalls and hot springs, bright-colored birds and howling monkeys, flora-lined trails cut through thick, fragrant forests and up cloud-covered mountains.
citation, passage=European adventurers found themselves within a watery world, a tapestry of streams, channels, wetlands, lakes and lush riparian meadows enriched by floodwaters from the Mississippi River.}}
- That meal was lush ! We have to go that restaurant again sometime!
- Boys with long hair are lush !
- Your voice is lush , Lucy! I could listen to it all day!
Etymology 2
Perhaps a humorous use of the preceding word, or perhaps from (etyl) .An Etymological Dictionary of Modern English (ISBN 0486122867)Noun
(es)Verb
(es)Derived terms
* lushing * lusherReferences
Anagrams
* (l)tushed
English
Verb
(head)tush
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) tuscNoun
(tushes)- 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 [...].
- 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.
Etymology 2
Short for toches, from (etyl) . Since 1914.Noun
(es)Derived terms
* tushie * tushyEtymology 3
A "natural utterance" (OED), attested since the 15th centuryInterjection
(en interjection)- 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? But I'm afraid Mrs. Bank Manager is a puss—a distinct puss. It's when they get on the soul-mate stunt that the furniture begins to fly."