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
Example Sentences
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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
But the soldiers got around this in the way "cush" was manipulated.
From History of Kershaw's Brigade by D. Augustus Dickert
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
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
The pair will go up against Cush Jumbo, who is nominated for playing Hamlet, and Sheila Atim for the parallel universe romantic comedy Constellations.
From BBC ● Mar. 9, 2022
Cush was the founder or father of this tribe.
From The Black Man, the Father of Civilization Proven by Biblical History by James Morris Webb
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