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Slang of the day


cushy

Meaning: easy, undemanding (of a job or a lifestyle) (= un chollo)
For example:
  • I'd like one of those cushy government jobs with loads of holidays and not much real work.
  • Steve quit the cushy job he had in his father's company. He says it didn't challenge him enough.
Origin: From the Hindi word "khush", meaning "pleasure". Hindi is one of many Indian languages that contributed words to "Anglo-Indian" from the eighteenth to the early twentieth centuries. This word was then borrowed by British English around the time of World War One.

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