cush

[ koosh ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

, Slang.

money, especially when reserved for some special use.

Cush

or Kush

[ koosh, kuhsh ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

(in the Bible) the eldest son of Ham.
an area mentioned in the Bible, sometimes identified with Upper Egypt.
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

/ kʌʃ; kʊʃ /

noun

the son of Ham and brother of Canaan (Genesis 10:6)
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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Word History and Origins

Origin of cush¹

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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Example Sentences

The posterity of Cush, he tells us, were addicted to the contemplation of the stars, and worshipped the sun as a god.

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I had eaten almost everything from "cush" and "slapjacks" to raw corn and uncooked bacon.

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Nilo gave himself to study of the drum, reminded, doubtless, of similar warlike devices in Kash-Cush.

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These wonderful achievements were of the children of Cush, the ancestor of the Negroes.

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The words "Ethiopia" and "Cush" were used always to describe a black people, or the country where such a people lived.

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