cush

adj, noun — 4 senses

cush

adj

/kʊʃ/ · SC /kʉʃ/

Etymology From cushty, from Romani kushto, kushti (“good”).

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Geordie, Slang Excellent, very good.

  • That car owwer there is propa cush!

cush

noun

Etymology From cushion.

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Ball games, Billiards, Games, Hobbies, Lifestyle, Pool, Snooker, Sports Colloquial The cushion, the soft lip around the edge of the table that allows the balls to bounce cleanly.

cush

adj

Etymology From cushy.

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Cushy.

  • Sherrington recalled that Bush's office in the old ballpark was "not very cush" and not what you would expect for the owner of a major league franchise.2006, James E. Mueller, Towel Snapping the Press: Bush's Journey from Locker-room Antics to Message Control, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 109:
  • “The Dimonds have adjoining suites. It's all very cush.” “Who died and made you manager?” Courtney asked. “I told you, we bellhops run the place. We know where all the skeletons are buried.” Courtney quipped, “From what I've heard of that hotel, that's no figure of speech.”2009, D.J. MacHale, Pendragon: Raven Rise, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:
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  • Adirondack Trailways donated bus tickets, realtors wrote checks, local farmers gave seasonal produce for catered meals. Adopted by multiracial parents, Quinn attended a “very cush” Catholic boarding school in California, […]2010, Nina Shengold, River of Words: Portraits of Hudson Valley Writers, SUNY Press, →ISBN, page 173:
  • 2015, Edward John Barrington Douglas-Scott-Montagu Baron Montagu of Beaulieu, Jaguar, Chris Hedlund A very cush deal in which Pablo would do a small amount of time in a prison his own people designed and built. Then he would go free. The resort-like prison was so luxurious it had the DEA fuming.
  • Mia grinned. “Lyndon got rooms for them at The Wauwinet, which is very cush. I stayed there last night.” She whispered to Jade and J.P., “Rumor has it you two spent a night there a while back.”2018, Janna King, The Seasonaires: A Novel, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:

cush

noun

Etymology Variant of cuisse; compare cuish.

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Synonym of cuisse (“armor for the thigh”).

  • "[…]a breast and placket, taces, gorget, a burgonet with a buffe or chin peece," and also "Armour richly quilt and graven consisting of a backe, breast, cushes, a paire of kneecops, gorget, a pair of short taces, one burgonet […]"1880, “The” Archaeological Journal, page 488:
  • […] quissers or cushes covered with cloth of camaca, for the protection of legs and thighs (I. 649); and lastly, a bequest of a targett or shield (II. 657), and of a bokeler covered with plates of silver ...1890, London (England). Court of Husting, Calendar of Wills Proved and Enrolled in the Court of Husting, London, A.D. 1258-A.D. 1688: A.D. 1358-1688
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  • One black field armour unfinished compleate One other field armour unfinished, wanting only a pair of cushes1963, Oliver Frederick Gillilan Hogg, The Royal Arsenal: Its Background, Origin, and Subsequent History:

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