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English
Etymology
From Manx cushag vooar (“big stalk”), from cushag (“stalk”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkʊˌʃəɡ/, /ˈkʊˌʃæɡ/, /ˈkʊˌʒəɡ/
Noun
cushag (plural cushags)
- (chiefly Isle of Man) The ragwort, the national flower of the Isle of Man, which has a large stalk.
1894, Hall Caine, The Manxman, page 98:He saw Kate coming down the glen road, driving two heifers with a cushag for switch and flashing its gold at them in the horizontal gleams of sunset.
1908, British Bee Journal and Bee-keepers' Adviser, volume 36, page 214:I pointed out a field near my apiary full of cushags, and, though a sunny day in midsummer, not a bee was to be found among the cushags, nor had I ever previously seen them working on that flower.
1954, Dorothy Kaucher, Armchair in the sky: ocean flights with air pioneers, page 108:Little green men with their eyes all afire,
Poking stray sunbeams in pools to catch them,
Binding the wind with a cushag stem wire,
Throwing the mist on the clouds to patch them.
Quotations
1913, Hall Caine, The woman thou gavest me: being the story of Mary O'Neill:"Mary, my love, you will certainly agree that your islanders who do not eat cushags, poor dears, are the funniest people alive as guests."
Manx
Pronunciation
Noun
cushag
- stalk