English Explanatory Dictionary

cush

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Excellent, very good.
adj
  1. Cushy.
noun
  1. The cushion, the soft lip around the edge of the table that allows the balls to bounce cleanly.
noun
  1. Synonym of cuisse (“armor for the thigh”).
noun
  1. Alternative spelling of kush (“marijuana”).
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.
noun
  1. Alternative form of kush (“marijuana”).

Pronunciation

/kʊʃ/ En-au-cush.ogg /kʉʃ/ /kʌʃ/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Sumxr-Cush.wav

Word forms

cush more cush most cush cushes Kush

Etymology

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

Synonyms

cuisse

Related words

cush-cush Nubia Sudan Egypt

Derived words

Cushite Cushitic
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