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Thread #98319   Message #2964155
Posted By: Gurney
13-Aug-10 - 03:51 AM
Thread Name: Who Was Cushie Butterfield?.
Subject: RE: Who Was Cushie Butterfield?.
A moment of pedantry:
Cus: A kiss. North of England.
Cushion: A riotous kind of dance, formerly very common at weddings, generally accompanied with kissing.
Cushy-Cow-Lady: a Ladybird.

All from the Dictionary of Archaic Words, along with others mentioned above.