or twish, intj. (old colloquial).—An expression of impatience, contempt, or rebuke: also as verb, and TUSHING, subs.: cf. TUT.
c. 1400. York Plays, 324 [T. L. KINGTON-OLIPHANT, The New English, i. 195. There is the interjection TUSSCH! which took a hundred years to reach London].
d. 1529. SKELTON, Works, s.v.
1586. STANYHURST, Description of Ireland, i. There is a cholerike or disdainfull interiection vsed in the Irish language called Bosgh, which is as much in English as TWISH.
1598. FLORIO, A Worlde of Wordes, s.v. Zoccoli, zoccoli, TUSHTUSH, awaie, in faith sir, no, yea, in my other hose.
1611. Bible, Authorised Version, Psalm lxxiii. 11. TUSH, say they, how should God perceive it.
1612. CHAPMAN, The Widow’s Tears, v. 1. First Soldier. TUSH, man; in this topsy-turvy world friendship and bosom kindness are but made covers for mischief.
1819. SCOTT, Ivanhoe, ii. 387. Cedric TUSHED and pshawed more than once at the message, but he refused not obedience.
