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Nonsense vs Tush - What's the difference?

nonsense | tush |

As nouns the difference between nonsense and tush

is that nonsense is letters or words, in writing or speech, that have no meaning or seem to have no meaning while tush is a tusk or tush can be (us|colloquial) the buttocks.

As verbs the difference between nonsense and tush

is that nonsense is to make nonsense of while tush is to pull or drag (a heavy object such as a tree or log).

As a interjection tush is

an exclamation of contempt or rebuke.

nonsense

English

Alternative forms

* nonsence (archaic)

Noun

(wikipedia nonsense) (en-noun)
  • Letters or words, in writing or speech, that have no meaning or seem to have no meaning.
    • After my father had a stroke, every time he tried to talk, it sounded like nonsense .
  • An untrue statement.
    • He says that I stole his computer, but that's just nonsense .
  • Something foolish.
  • * 2008 , "Nick Leeson has some lessons for this collapse", Telegraph.co.uk, Oct 9, 2008
    • and central banks lend vast sums against marshmallow backed securities, or other nonsenses creative bankers dreamed up.
  • (literature) A type of poetry that contains strange or surreal ideas, as, for example, that written by .
  • (biology) A damaged DNA sequence whose products are not biologically active, that is, that does nothing.

    • Synonyms

    : See * (something that lacks meaning or absurd statement) ** (mostly colloquialisms or slang) balderdash, baloney, bull, bulldust, bunk, codswallop, drivel, gibberish, hogwash, hooey (US), horse hockey, malarkey, manure, poppycock, prattle, rhubarb (chiefly British), rubbish, twaddle ** (vulgar slang) bollocks (British), bullshit, crap, horseshit (US)

    Derived terms

    * nonsensical * nonsensification * nonsensify

    See also

    * (biology) missense

    Verb

    (nonsens)
  • To make nonsense of
  • * Bernard Shaw, "The Red Robe", in James Huneker ed., Dramatic Opinions and Essays by G. Bernard Shaw , volume II, page 73:
    • At the Haymarket all this is nonsensed by an endeavor to steer between Mr. Stanley Weyman's rights as author of the story and the prescriptive right of the leading actor to fight popularly and heroically against heavy odds.
  • To attempt to dismiss as nonsense.
  • * 1997 , "Rockies respond to whip", Denver Post , Jun 3, 1997:
    • "They haven't nonsensed these workouts. They've taken them and used them very well. I didn't know how they'd respond, but they've responded."
  • * 2000 , Leon Garfield, Jason Cockcroft, Jack Holborn , page 131:
    • Very commanding: very much 'end of this nonsensing' . Mister Fared spread his hands and shook his thin head imperceptibly, as if to say he understood
  • * 2006 , Sierra Leone: Petroleum Unit Calls for Auditing , AllAfrica.com, Mar 17, 2006:
    • He further nonsensed press suggestions that the Petroleum Unit was set up to assist in the administration of sporting activities.
  • To joke around, to waste time
  • * 1963 , C. F. Griffin, The Impermanence of Heroes , page 170:
    • When he meant "go and get one" he said to go and get one, with no nonsensing around about "liking" to get one.

    Synonyms

    * pooh-pooh, rubbish, whangdoodle

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Resulting from the substitution of a nucleotide in a sense codon, causing it to become a stop codon (not coding for an amino-acid).

    • tush

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) tusc

    Noun

    (tushes)
  • 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 [...].
  • *
    • 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.
  • A small tusk sometimes found on the female Indian elephant.

    • Etymology 2

    Short for toches, from (etyl) . Since 1914.

    Noun

    (es)
  • (US, colloquial) The buttocks
    • Derived terms
    * tushie * tushy

    Etymology 3

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

    Interjection

    (en interjection)
  • (An exclamation of contempt or rebuke).
  • * 1920 , (Herman Cyril McNeile), Bulldog Drummond Chapter 1
    • 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."

    Noun

    (-)
  • (British, colloquial) Nonsense; tosh.

    • Etymology 4

    Of unknown origin, attested since 1841.

    Verb

    (es)
  • To pull or drag a heavy object such as a tree or log.

    • Etymology 5

    From British slang tusheroon

    Noun

    (es)

    • Anagrams

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