cush
noun
money, especially when reserved for some special use.
cush
1 American
[koosh]
/ kʊʃ /
noun
Slang.
Cush
2
American
[koosh, kuhsh]
/ kʊʃ, kʌʃ /
Or
Kush
noun
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(in the Bible) the eldest son of Ham.
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an area mentioned in the Bible, sometimes identified with Upper Egypt.
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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).
Cush
British
/ kʌʃ, kʊʃ /
noun
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the son of Ham and brother of Canaan (Genesis 10:6)
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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
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
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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
Cold cornbread or hard-tack crumbled into a tin can and boiled with perhaps a few scraps of meat was "cush" and "cush" tasted good, hot off the coals, after a hard day's march or fighting.
From A History of Lumsden's Battery, C.S.A. by James Robert Maxwell
Then I heard they’re doing this spin-off and it’s starring Christine Baranski and Rose Leslie and Cush Jumbo — pretty much everybody but me.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 28, 2026
The English actress Cush Jumbo narrates this ambitious collaboration between Audible and Pottermore.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 19, 2025
Earlier on Thursday, Alex Granville, representing Cush, said there was "significant mitigation for each appellant and significant circumstances", which may have not been properly considered.
From BBC ● Nov. 7, 2024
Cush Jumbo and Peter Capaldi portray dueling police officers investigating a case of a missing woman in the new thriller program “Criminal Record,” premiering Wednesday on Apple TV+.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 7, 2024
Although decisive evidence is lacking, it seems extremely probable that several references to Cush in the Old Testament cannot refer to Ethiopia, despite the likelihood that considerable confusion existed in the minds of early writers.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 8 "Cube" to "Daguerre, Louis" by Various
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