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Definition of Tushery
1. Noun. Writing of poor quality; characterized by affected choice of archaic words.
Definition of Tushery
1. pretentious writing [n -ERIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tushery
Literary usage of Tushery
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson to His Family and Friends by Robert Louis Stevenson, Sidney Colvin (1899)
"tushery' had been a name in use between Stevenson and Mr. Henley for romances
... Ay, friend, a whole tale of tushery. And every tusher tushes me so free, ..."
2. The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson to His Family and Friends by Robert Louis Stevenson, Sidney Colvin (1901)
"tushery ' had been a name in use between Stevenson and Mr. Henley for romances
... Ay, friend, a whole tale of tushery. And every tusher tushes me so free, ..."
3. Dramatic Values by Charles Edward Montague (1911)
"In writing to each other, Stevenson and Henley gave the name of "tushery" to
those creations of fancy in which the characters say, "Tush!" "Beshrew me! ..."
4. A Literary History of Scotland by John Hepburn Millar (1903)
"The year of Jekyll witnessed the appearance of Kidnapped, which, like Treasure
Island and The Black Arrow—a piece of mere "tushery,"i not published as a ..."
5. David Balfour by Robert Louis Stevenson (1905)
"So, as my good Red Lion Counter begged me for another Butcher's Boy —I turned me
to— what thinkest 'ou ?— to tushery, by the mass ! ..."
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