cush

[ koosh ]

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

Origin of cush

1
Origin uncertain; perhaps to be identified with cush sweetened and fried cornmeal (compare Gullah cush, cushcush, ultimately <Arabic kuskuscouscous); or a back formation from cushy

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Cush

or Kush

[ koosh, kuhsh ]

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

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

  1. 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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British Dictionary definitions for Cush

Cush

Kush

/ (kʌʃ, kʊʃ) /


nounOld Testament
  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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