Cush
See also: cush
English
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Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Borrowed from Biblical Hebrew כוש (kûš, “Ethiopia, Ethiopians”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Cush
- (biblical) The son of Ham, grandson of Noah, and supposed progenitor of the African peoples.
- (biblical) A Benjamite mentioned only in the title of Psalm 7.
- An Iron Age kingdom on the middle Nile, in what is now northern Sudan.
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]son of Ham
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ancient kingdom
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See also
[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]Noun
[edit]Cush (uncountable)
- Alternative form of kush (“marijuana”)
- 2013, Chauncey "Chino Dolla" Stevens, Antoine "Don Twan" Robinson, A Hustler's Dream I: Grinding in Atlanta's Hip Hop Underworld, MasterMind Publishing, Inc., →ISBN, page 239:
- He loved smoking joints and couldn't handle blunts. […] I also had him backstage smoking Cush with Jeezy and Will.
- 2020, Samuel Van Ness IV, A Stranger Within (HC), Dorrance Publishing, →ISBN, page 289:
- I couldn't work with my hands anymore. To make money I started selling Cush, which was considered to be fake weed. It stopped the pain in my hands. I was addicted to the fake crap. I was smoking more ...
- 2021, Okuon Cham, From Hell to Haven; Darkness to Light; Negativity to Positivity; and from Cradle to Salvation, Life Journey, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN:
- It was June of 2015; we were just smoking Cush with my friends as usual when suddenly something hit me hard on the right ... I thought it was nothings serious, I got up and tried to smoke a gain, but this time it switches up my chest ...
References
[edit]- “Cush”, in Collins English Dictionary.