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Tushed vs Tusked - What's the difference?

tushed | tusked |

As verbs the difference between tushed and tusked

is that tushed is past tense of tush while tusked is past tense of tusk.

As an adjective tusked is

furnished with tusks.

tushed

English

Verb

(head)
  • (tush)

  • 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

    * English heteronyms ----

    tusked

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Furnished with tusks.
  • Verb

    (head)
  • (tusk)

  • tusk

    English

    (wikipedia tusk)

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) tusk (also tux, tusch), from (etyl) . More at (l).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One of a pair of elongated pointed teeth that extend outside the mouth of an animal such as walrus, elephant or wild boar.
  • Until the CITES sales ban, elephant tusks were the 'backbone' of the legal ivory trade.
  • A small projection on a (tusk) tenon.
  • A tusk shell.
  • (carpentry) A projecting member like a tenon, and serving the same or a similar purpose, but composed of several steps, or offsets, called teeth .
  • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To dig up using a tusk, as boars do.
  • (obsolete) To bare or gnash the teeth.
  • References

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    Etymology 2

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A fish, the torsk.
  • (Webster 1913) ----