Rush

proper nouncommon in dialogue

A surname A surname from English

proper noun

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A surname A surname from English
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A surname A surname from English An English surname originating as an occupation for someone who made things from rushes.
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A surname A surname from Irish
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A surname A surname from German
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A male given name.
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A placename: A coastal town in Fingal, County Dublin, Ireland.
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A placename: A number of places in the United States: An unincorporated community in El Paso County, Colorado, United States.
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A placename: A number of places in the United States: An unincorporated community in Boyd County and Carter County, Kentucky, United States.
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A placename: A number of places in the United States: A town in Monroe County, New York, United States.
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A placename: A number of places in the United States: A number of townships, in Illinois, Michigan, Missouri, Ohio and Pennsylvania, United States, listed under Rush Township.
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Variant of Rush CountyA placename: Ellipsis of Rush County.

Etymology

* As an English surname, from the noun rush (“waterside plant, plant in marshes”). * Also as an English surname, from the archaic noun rush (“beehive”), from French ruche. * As an Irish surname, from Ó Ruis (literally “descendant of Ros”), a name from ros (“wood”). Sometimes also translated from Ó Luachra due to confusion with luachair (“rushes”), see Loughrey. * Also as an Irish surname, translated/Anglicized from Ó Fuada (literally “descendant of Fuada”), compare Foody, from the noun fuad (“haste”). * As a German surname, Americanized from Rüsch, Ruesch, Rusch.

Forms

plural: Rushs, Rushes

ruse · An action intended to deceive; a trick.Ruse · A suburb of Sydney in the Campbelltown council area, New…rush · A sudden forward motion.

Rush · A surname A surname from English

RUSH · A dialect of the programming language PL/I.rushed · Very busy.rushes · Unedited footage; film material as recorded to tape etc.

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