Cush Definition

ko͝osh
noun
The oldest of Ham's sons.
Webster's New World
A dish made by frying or boiling cornmeal or crumbled cornbread with grease and often other ingredients such as pieces of meat or onion.
American Heritage
The land inhabited by his descendants, thought to be on the W shore of the Red Sea: Gen. 10:8; 1 Chron. 1:10
Webster's New World

(sports, billiards, snooker, pool) Shortened form of cushion, the soft lip around the edge of the table that allows the balls to bounce cleanly.

Wiktionary
adjective

(Geordie, slang) Excellent, very good.

That car owner thor is propa cush!
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Other Word Forms of Cush

Noun

Singular:
cush
Plural:
cushes

Origin of Cush

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

    From Wiktionary

  • Akin to cush-cush

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From cushion.

    From Wiktionary

Cush Sentence Examples

  • Dan, he declares, sooner than join in Jeroboam's scheme of an Israelite war against Judah, had migrated to Cush, and finally, with the help of Naphthali, Asher and Gad, had founded an independent Jewish kingdom in the Gold Land of Havila, beyond Abyssinia.

  • The locality of the land of Cush has long been a much-vexed question.

  • Others again, like Michaelis and Rosenmiiller, have supposed that the name Cush was applied to tracts of country both in Arabia and in Africa, but the defective condition of the ancient knowledge of countries and peoples, as also the probability of early migrations of "Cushite" tribes (carrying with them their name), will account for the main facts.

  • With the growth of scientific geography they came to be located somewhat less vaguely, and indeed their name was employed as the equivalent of the Assyrian and Hebrew Cush, the Kesh or Ekosh of the Hieroglyphics (first found in Stele of Senwosri I.), i.e.

  • Tethmosis thoroughly subdued Cush, which had already been placed under the government of a viceroy.

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Words Starting With

CCUCUS

Words Ending With

HSHUSH

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cush

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4 Letter Words4 Letter Words Starting With C4 Letter Words Ending With H