"...the ghost of Dermond O'Connor the Wolf is abroad o' dark night and the moon out of the sky, and him with his great black beard and ghastly eyes and boar tushes."
-Dermond's Bane
1.
[təSH]
NOUN
tushes (plural noun)
a long pointed tooth, in particular a canine tooth of a male horse.
a stunted tusk of some Indian elephants.
ORIGIN
Old English tusc (see tusk).
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