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Tusk vs Tush - What's the difference?

tusk | tush |

As nouns the difference between tusk and tush

is that tusk is one of a pair of elongated pointed teeth that extend outside the mouth of an animal such as walrus, elephant or wild boar while tush is a tusk.

As verbs the difference between tusk and tush

is that tusk is to dig up using a tusk, as boars do 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.

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.

    • Related terms

    * tusked * tusker * tusklike * tusky * tusk tenon

    References

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    Etymology 2

    Noun

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

    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 ----