cushy, a. colloq.
(ˈkʊʃɪ)
Also cushey.
[Anglo-Ind., f. Hind. ḳhūsh pleasant.]
Of a post, job, etc.: easy, comfortable, ‘soft’. Of a wound: not dangerous or serious.
| 1915 D. O. Barnett Lett. 44 The billets here are very good..and we have rooms to ourselves... It's all very cushey and nice. 1916 Blackw. Mag. Jan. 91/2 I've got a cushy wound. 1916 Daily Mail 1 Nov., He's got a cushy job. 1917 P. Gibbs Battles of Somme 146 All our men who have had the luck to get a ‘cushie wound’. 1928 E. Waugh Decl. & F. i. iii, I was sent to Ireland on a pretty cushy job connected with postal service. 1938 Auden & Isherwood On the Frontier iii. i, There're too many healthy young men slacking in cushy staff jobs! 1957 Listener 26 Dec. 1066/2 It was not a particularly cushy job and two of our men were killed in action. 1970 A. Sillitoe Start in Life 285 You were always on the lookout for a cushy billet. 1971 Time 18 Jan. 30/3 Something is not quite right even at the state's cushiest ‘correctional facilities’ (bureaucratese for prisons), some of which could pass for prep schools. |
Hence ˈcushiness, the state or condition of being ‘cushy’.
| 1930 S. Sassoon Mem. Infantry Officer ix. 268 There were times when I felt perversely indignant at the ‘cushiness’ of my convalescent existence. |