cush

¹ American  

[koosh] / kʊʃ /

noun

Slang.

1. money, especially when reserved for some special use.

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Cush ² American  

[koosh, kuhsh] / kʊʃ, kʌʃ /

Or Kush

noun

1. (in the Bible) the eldest son of Ham.

2. an area mentioned in the Bible, sometimes identified with Upper Egypt.

3. Kingdom of Cush, an ancient African state in the area that is now southern Egypt and the Sudan: part of the region of Nubia (1000 b.c.–a.d. 350).

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Cush British  

/ kʌʃ, kʊʃ /

noun

1. the son of Ham and brother of Canaan (Genesis 10:6)

2. the country of the supposed descendants of Cush (ancient Ethiopia), comprising approximately Nubia and the modern Sudan, and the territory of southern (or Upper) Egypt

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Etymology

Origin of cush

Origin uncertain; perhaps to be identified with cush sweetened and fried cornmeal (compare Gullah cush, cushcush, ultimately < Arabic kuskus couscous ); or a back formation from cushy

Example Sentences

Leaning against the trunk of the compact SUV, Necefer explains how the vehicle enables the bikers to have “a little bit more cush ride of an experience.”

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 22, 2021

"I got insight into what life is like as a federal employee: pretty cush!"

From Reuters • Jan. 5, 2016

Take this sentence: “The jug where his cush is, is an eye gaff, and I’m afraid of Old Poison getting the beef.”

From Slate • Dec. 5, 2013

Choosing a reality show hunk over your cush job during an economic crisis is a gobsmackingly dumb decision, but it's also a great story.

From Salon • Mar. 1, 2010

But the soldiers got around this in the way "cush" was manipulated.

From History of Kershaw's Brigade by Dickert, D. Augustus