Tushes vs Hushes - What's the difference?
tushes | hushes |
* Nathaniel C. Comfort, The Tangled Field: Barbara McClintock's Search for the Patterns of Genetic Control (2003) p. 29:
* Blackwood's Magazine (1980) p. 769:
(hush)
to become quiet
to make quiet
To appease; to allay; to soothe.
* Otway
* Tennyson
A silence, especially after some noise
* Byron
A mining method using water
As a noun tushes
is plural of lang=en.As a verb hushes is
third-person singular of hush.tushes
English
Noun
(head)- She recalled that mcclintock enjoyed the aesthetics of tushes'''. ... "It wasn't just guys' '''tushes''' and it wasn't just girls' '''tushes''', it was just '''tushes ."
- A boar carries two pairs of tushes''', one pair sharp-pointed and sharp-edged and ... When he has his mouth closed the sharp lower '''tushes''' are in a way sheathed against the blunt upper '''tushes ...
hushes
English
Verb
(head)hush
English
Verb
(es)- Wilt thou, then, Hush my cares?
- And hush'd my deepest grief of all.
Noun
(-)- It is the hush of night.
- (Byron)