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.