Cushty (adj)
kush-ti
Very good or pleasing.
I always thought this was one of Del Boy’s (Only Fools and Horses) made up words when in fact it comes from the 1920s: from Romany kushto, kushti good, perhaps influenced by cushy.
Example sentences
“I’ll get a cushty job, such as writing my own magazine column, or something.”
“Everything is cushty Rodney; just you watch, this time next year we’ll be millionaires.”
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