cushy

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(kʊsh'ē) pronunciation
adj. Informal, -i·er, -i·est.
Making few demands; comfortable: a cushy job.

[Origin unknown.]

cushily cush'i·ly adv.
cushiness cush'i·ness n.

WORD HISTORY   Since cushy has a breezy American ring, it is difficult to believe that it is an import, as some etymologists claim. Members of the British army in India are supposed to have picked up the Anglo-Indian version of the Hindi word ḳhuś, meaning "pleasant," to which the suffix -y, as in empty and sexy, was added to form a new English word. Cushy, however, was first recorded in a letter from the European battlefront during World War I. This fact, in conjunction with our inability to find an Anglo-Indian source, casts some doubt on the Hindi or Anglo-Indian origin of cushy. Two other possibilities are that cushy is a shortening of cushion with the -y suffix or that it is a borrowing of French couchée, "lying down; a bed."



adj

Definition: easy
Antonyms: demanding, difficult

cushy
adjective   informal
Word origin: 20th century: from Hindi khush 'pleasant', from Persian khōsh


Cushy is thought to share South Asian roots with cushty. The latter, Del Boy's favourite pronouncement, is a corruption of a Romani word whose incorporation into mainstream English was helped along first by the popularity of its older Hindi soundalike, then by Peckham's most famous entrepreneur

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adjective

Of a post, job, etc.: easy and pleasant. (1915 —) .
A. Sillitoe You were always on the lookout for a cushy billet (1970).

[Anglo-Indian, from Hindustani ḳhūsh pleasant.]


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Dansk (Danish)
adj. - let, blød, magelig

Nederlands (Dutch)
makkelijk, zacht

Français (French)
adj. - peinard, facile

Deutsch (German)
adj. - bequem

Ελληνική (Greek)
adj. - άνετος, βολικός, χουζουρλίδικος, ραχατλίδικος

Italiano (Italian)
facile

Português (Portuguese)
adj. - fácil (coloq.)

Русский (Russian)
удобный

Español (Spanish)
adj. - fácil, agradable

Svenska (Swedish)
adj. - lätt o välbetald, bekväm, latmans-

中文(简体)(Chinese (Simplified))
容易的, 轻松而容易赚钱的

中文(繁體)(Chinese (Traditional))
adj. - 容易的, 輕鬆而容易賺錢的

한국어 (Korean)
adj. - 편한, 즐거운

日本語 (Japanese)
adj. - 楽な
n. - 金

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(صفه) لا تحتج عنا كبير ( كوظيفه كتابيه أو حياة الأغنياء)‏

עברית (Hebrew)
adj. - ‮קל, נוח‬


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