cushty adj.
1. first-rate, excellent, enjoyable.
[ | Worcester Herald 26 Dec. 4/3: chusty, good]. | |
Bristol Times 17 Oct. 4/1: Do you know any commister (clergyman) here? Yes there is one, he is a cushtie (good one). | ||
Only Fools and Horses [TV script] No, no no, no, everything’s cushty! | ‘Sleeping Dogs Lie’||
Lowspeak 46: Cushti – an exclamation of approval. | ||
Awaydays 98: Our goons want it all cushty with the management just like they always have done. | ||
Guardian Rev. 3 Nov. 17: Purely Belter means more brilliant than ‘cushdy’ or ‘mint’; it means, as it were, doubleplusgood. | ||
🎵 That’s cushty, mate, I’m gettin’ paid, more than you tonight. | ‘Knock, Knock’||
Esquire 1 Sept. 🌐 He was on a sales call about to land a cushty deal and nail a wad of commish. |
2. on good terms, involved with sexually.
Crumple Zone 139: Georgio already thinks you’re all cushty with Alv. |
3. physically comfortable.
Crumple Zone 196: Ah can see you’re all cushty an’ Ah’m aimin’ to leave you the way Ah found you. |
In phrases
(orig. costermonger) good luck.
Police Sergeant C 21 258: Then when I was going to ask him to have a shy at the Aunt Sally, he whispers slyly, ‘kushoto bak’ to me – which is Romany for good luck. | ||
Autobiog. of a Gipsey 10: Good-bye, mi pal, an kooshto bok! |