tushery
Britishnoun
Etymology
Origin of tushery
coined by Robert Louis Stevenson , from tush 1 + -ery
Example Sentences
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Realistic pathos may have its Dobbin or Tom Pinch, but the wild and whirling episodes of tushery demand the satisfactory finish hallowed by custom.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, October 24, 1917 by Various
I have had to leave Fontainebleau, when three hours would finish it, and go full-tilt at tushery for a while.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 24 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis
I have had to leave FONTAINEBLEAU, when three hours would finish it, and go full-tilt at tushery for a while.
From Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson — Volume 1 by Stevenson, Robert Louis
Should he err on one side, he is in the bogs of tushery: on the other, he commits that fault of self-conscious, over-daring modernization, of which Mr. Shaw has been so guilty.
From Hilaire Belloc The Man and His Work by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)
If you chose to blur your intelligence by writing romantic tushery, you must remember that by doing so you yielded to temptation just as much as I did when I forged Stevie's name.
From Poor Relations by MacKenzie, Compton
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