Tushed vs Tusked - What's the difference?
tushed | tusked |
(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.
Furnished with tusks.
(tusk)
One of a pair of elongated pointed teeth that extend outside the mouth of an animal such as walrus, elephant or wild boar.
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 .
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
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."
Noun
(-)Etymology 4
Of unknown origin, attested since 1841.Verb
(es)Etymology 5
From British slang tusheroonNoun
(es)Anagrams
* English heteronyms ----tusked
English
Adjective
(-)Verb
(head)tusk
English
(wikipedia tusk)Etymology 1
From (etyl) tusk (also tux, tusch), from (etyl) . More at (l).Noun
(en noun)- Until the CITES sales ban, elephant tusks were the 'backbone' of the legal ivory trade.