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lush

adj
/ˈlʌʃ/

Etymology

From Middle English lusch (“slack, relaxed, limp, loose”), from Old English *lysċ, lesċ (“slack; limp”), from Proto-West Germanic *laskwī̆, from Proto-Germanic *laskuz, *laskwaz (“weak, false, feeble”), from Proto-Indo-European *lēy- (“to let; leave behind”). Akin to Old English lysu, lesu (“false, evil, base”), Middle Low German lasch (“slack”), Middle High German er-leswen (“to become weak”), Old Norse lǫskr (“weak, feeble”), Gothic 𐌻𐌰𐍃𐌹𐍅𐍃 (lasiws, “weak, feeble”), Middle Low German las, lasich (“slack, languid, idle”), Low German lusch (“loose”). Doublet of lusk. More at lishey, lazy.

  1. derived from *lēy-✻
  2. inherited from *laskuz✻
  3. inherited from *laskwī̆✻
  4. inherited from *lysċ✻
  5. inherited from lusch

Definitions

  1. Juicy, succulent.

    • How luſh and luſty the graſſe lookes ? How greene ?

  2. Mellow

    Mellow; soft; (of ground or soil) easily turned; fertile.

  3. Dense, teeming with life

    Dense, teeming with life; luxuriant.

    • Virmire is a lush world located on the frontier of the Attican Traverse. Its vast seas and orbital position on the inner life zone have created a wide equatorial band of humid, tropical terrain.
    • European adventurers found themselves within a watery world, a tapestry of streams, channels, wetlands, lakes and lush riparian meadows enriched by floodwaters from the Mississippi River.
  4. ›+ 11 more definitions

    1. Savoury, delicious.

      • That meal was lush! We have to go to that restaurant again sometime!

    2. Thriving

      Thriving; rife; sumptuous.

      • They rolled into Jane's room a wheeled cart lush with cake and cookies and shrimp and crudités and pop and soda water. The staff was giving us a going-away party for our trip to Seattle; it was good to understand their confidence.

    3. Beautiful, sexy.

      • Boys with long hair are lush!

    4. Amazing, cool, fantastic, wicked.

      • Your voice is lush, Lucy! I could listen to it all day!

    5. Lax

      Lax; slack; limp; flexible.

    6. A drunkard, sot, alcoholic.

      • Overaged and lecherous lushes at office parties profaning the text, music, and meaning of Christmas carols.

    7. Intoxicating liquor.

      • I took my flogging like a stone. If I had sung, some of the convicts would have given me some lush with a locust in it (laudanum hocussing), and when I was asleep would have given me a crack on the head that would have laid me straight.
      • If your care comes, in the liquor sink it, / Pass along the lush — I'm the boy can drink it.

    8. A person who enjoys talking about themselves.

      • Am I humble or am I a lush?

    9. Drunk

      Drunk; inebriated.

      • “’E generally goes down there when ’e’s got ’is skinful, beggin’ your pardon, sir, an’ they do say that the more lush — in-he-briated ’e is, the more fish ’e catches.”

    10. To drink (liquor) to excess.

    11. A surname.

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Derived

overlush, lush-crib, lush-roll, lush-roller, lush-worker, lushy

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for lush. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA