Shower vs Tush - What's the difference?
shower | tush |
A brief fall of precipitation.
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A device for bathing by which water is made to fall on the body from a height, either from a tank or by the action of a pump.
An instance of using of this device in order to bathe oneself.
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A quantity of something that has characteristics of a rain shower.
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A party associated with a significant event in a person's life, at which the person usually receives gifts.
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#A bridal shower.
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#A baby shower.
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(label) A battle, an attack; conflict.
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*:With this I maye be sure to come sauf / and goo sauf / and that the quene shal haue her lyberte as she had before / and neuer for no thynge that hath ben surmysed afore this tyme / she neuer fro this day stande in no peryll / for els sayd sir launcelot I dare auenture me to kepe her from an harder shoure than euer I kepte her
A shower of shit.
*1956 , (w, Private's Progress) (motion picture):
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(Used as an intensifying pluralizer or intensifier)
*1991 , Allen Feldman, Formations of Violence: The Narrative of the Body and Political Terror in Northern Ireland ,
*:It was one of the worst feelings in the H-Block, one of the worst experiences to sit and listen to somebody getting beat. Because you were totally powerless, and you would always get somebody shouting at the door, “You shower of bastards!” It was always a crowd of screws and one or two naked men in a cell. They had total control.
(followed by with) To spray with (a specified liquid).
To bathe using a shower.
to bestow liberally, to give or distribute in abundance
* 1919 , :
One who shows.
(slang) A man whose penis appears roughly full size both when flaccid and when erect.
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 nouns the difference between shower and tush
is that shower is a brief fall of precipitation while tush is a tusk.As verbs the difference between shower and tush
is that shower is to spray with (a specified liquid) while tush is to pull or drag a heavy object such as a tree or log.As an interjection tush is
An exclamation of contempt or rebuke.shower
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) . Cognate with (etyl) (m), (etyl) (m).Noun
(en noun)page 208] ([http://www.press.uchicago.edu/presssite/metadata.epl?isbn=9780226240718 University of Chicago Press; ISBN 9780226240701, 9780226240718)
Synonyms
* (device for bathing) shower bath * (instance of use) shower bathSee also
* (wikipedia "shower") *Verb
(en verb)- The individual in the army becomes used to holding human life in contempt, in fact the greater the slaughter, the greater is his merit; and the more medals, ribbons, and honors of hero-worship are showered on him, the more he becomes, after a time, indifferent to all sorts of human suffering and loss of human life.
Synonyms
* (bathe using a shower) have a shower (British), take a shower (especially US)Derived terms
* aluminum shower * golden shower * power shower * send someone to the showers * shower attachment * shower bath * shower cap * shower curtain * shower gel * showerhead * shower rail * shower unit * showery * snow shower, snowshower * sun shower * thought showerEtymology 2
*Noun
(en noun)Antonyms
* (man whose penis appears roughly full size both flaccid and erect) growerAnagrams
* English heteronyms ----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."