cush-cush

cush-cush

[koosh-koosh]
noun

Origin:
1870–75; origin obscure

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cush-cush

noun
tropical American yam with small yellow edible tubers 
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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
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