There will be times when people posting to a thread on the origin and meaning of odd or unusual or unfamiliar words in songs will journey down paths that are the wrong turn, but might still result in interesting scenery [in this case scenery=information].

I admit that I have been wrong about information-a couple times in my life.

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Had I known that there was a word "coo" that is used for calling cows, and if I knew that the word/name "Cushie" was pronounced
"coo-she" then maybe I would not have suggested that that word could have come from "Cush" {particularly since it appears that Cushie's pronunciation is different than the word Cush/Kush.

Since I now know about the word coo for cows, and because I've been informed about the Mother Goose Rhyme "Cushie Cushie Cow" *, I believe that it makes sense that the name "Cushie Butterfield" in that song came from the call for cows.

* btw, did the cutsy "Cushy Cushy Coo" talk adults make in front of babies also come from "cushie cushie cow"?

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And, one more thing, Q:

You wrote that "Biblical Cush- Not certain what is referred to here. Could be Ethiopia, but other scholars place it in Arabia or Babylonia (the 'Kassites, in one spelling). Very dubiously related to the Nubians to the south of Egypt."

Whether it be on subject or not, I have to respond that just as some future historians could correctly say that the ancient kingdom of the United States was in the Caribbean {since Puerto Rico is located there}, so too can people correctly say that Biblical ancient Ethiopia/Cush/Nubia was located in Arabia or Babylonia. But it's base was in what is now the Sudan {and not modern day Ethiopia which was also a colony of Kush/Ethiopia/Nubia.

And Q, you have the right to your opinion that "the Bible [is] no help". However, on many levels I respectfully but vehemently disagree with that statement.