туша

Probably related to тук (tuk, “fat, lard”), тыть (tytʹ, “тучнеть, to grow stout/fat, to put on flesh”) as Russian кры́ша (krýša, “roof”) related to Russian крыть (krytʹ, “to cover, to roof”) (Vasmer, Shansky, Tsyganenko). Alternatively related to ту́хнуть (túxnutʹ) (mentioned by Vasmer); or to то́щий (tóščij), or from Turkic (Chernych).

• IPA^(key): [ˈtuʂə]

ту́ша • (túša) f inan (genitive ту́ши, nominative plural ту́ши, genitive plural туш, diminutive ту́шка)

1. carcass
2. (colloquial, derogatory) fat person
3. (colloquial, derogatory) meathead, stupid muscular person

Phrases

From ту́шка (túška):

• хоть ту́шкой, хоть чу́челком (xotʹ túškoj, xotʹ čúčelkom), хоть ту́шкой, хоть чу́челом (xotʹ túškoj, xotʹ čúčelom)

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “туша”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Chernykh, P. Ja. (1999), “туша”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), 3rd edition, volume 2 (панцирь – ящур), Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN, page 274
• Šanskij, N. M. (2004), “туша”, in Školʹnyj etimologičeskij slovarʹ russkovo jazyka [School Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Drofa
• Tsyhanenko, H. P. (1989), “туша”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), 2nd edition, Kyiv: Radjanska shkola, →ISBN, page 441

• Dal, Vladimir (1880–1882), “туша”, in Толковый Словарь живаго великорускаго языка [Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language] (in Russian), 2nd edition, Publication of the bookseller-typographer Wolf, M. O.

• IPA^(key): [ˈtuʂə]

ту́ша • (túša) m inan

1. genitive singular of туш (tuš)

• IPA^(key): [tʊˈʂa]

туша́ • (tušá)

1. present adverbial imperfective participle of туши́ть (tušítʹ)