cushat

• cowshot (Lancashire)

From Middle English cowshott, cowschote, quyshte, from Old English cūsċeote, of uncertain origin (possibly from Proto-Germanic or Vulgar Latin).

• IPA^(key): /ˈkʌʃət/ or IPA^(key): /ˈkʊʃət/

cushat (plural cushats)

1. (Geordie or informal) A pigeon, wood pigeon or ring dove.

• cushat dove, cushat-dove

• cushat in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• Northumberland Words, English Dialect Society, R. Oliver Heslop, 1893–4
• The New Geordie Dictionary, Frank Graham, 1987, →ISBN
• Newcastle 1970s, Scott Dobson and Dick Irwin,

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