cush

Not valid in Scrabble

It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.

Scrabble points
9
Words With Friends
10
Letters
4
Pronunciation
/kʊʃ/
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/kʊʃ/ · /kʉʃ/ · /kʌʃ/

Definition of cush

9 senses · 3 parts of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. (Geordie, slang)Excellent, very good.
    “That car owwer there is propa cush!”
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adj

  1. (Geordie, slang)Excellent, very good.
    “That car owwer there is propa cush!”
  2. 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.”
    ““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.””
    “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, […]”
    “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.””

noun

  1. (colloquial)The cushion, the soft lip around the edge of the table that allows the balls to bounce cleanly.
  2. 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 […]"”
    “[…] 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 ...”
    “One black field armour unfinished compleate One other field armour unfinished, wanting only a pair of cushes”
  3. (alt-of, alternative, uncountable)Alternative spelling of kush (“marijuana”).
    ““Got caught smoking cush and making out with Franklin Johnson in the memorial garden.” Ugh. This girl has no class. “Did law enforcement press charges?” Lettie asked, concern seeping into her voice. Leave it to Lettie to actually care.”
    “You got those cigarettes and cush / You don't ever let me down”
    “[…] there's more life than ice and smoking cush because Christ paid the price for us all so Salvation is available; for there is nothing in the streets that's capable of saving you; death, snitching and prison are your only options[…]”
    “[…] smoked crack in a glass pipe or choose to down play it and mix it with some tobacco in a cigarette or some cush[…]”
    “Smoking them up and getting high off the few blunts, it was nothing like when they smoked the purple cush,[…]”
  4. (alt-of, alternative, uncountable)Alternative form of kush (“marijuana”).
    “He loved smoking joints and couldn't handle blunts. […] I also had him backstage smoking Cush with Jeezy and Will.”
    “I couldn't work with my hands anymore. To make money I started selling Cush, which was considered to be fake weed. It stopped the pain in my hands. I was addicted to the fake crap. I was smoking more ...”
    “It was June of 2015; we were just smoking Cush with my friends as usual when suddenly something hit me hard on the right ... I thought it was nothings serious, I got up and tried to smoke a gain, but this time it switches up my chest ...”

name

  1. The son of Ham, grandson of Noah, and supposed progenitor of the African peoples.
  2. A Benjamite mentioned only in the title of Psalm 7.
  3. An Iron Age kingdom on the middle Nile, in what is now northern Sudan.

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

Etymology

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

Anagrams of cush

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