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lushy

adj
/ˈlʌ.ʃi/

Etymology

From lush + -y.

  1. derived from *lēy-✻
  2. inherited from *laskuz✻
  3. inherited from *laskwī̆✻
  4. inherited from *lysċ✻
  5. inherited from lusch
  6. suffixed as lushy — “lush + y”

Definitions

  1. Given to drinking alcohol.

    • Pipes I blew, on malt I fuddled, / A lushy man! / Till my mind and head got muddled, / Dissipated man!

  2. Drunk

    Drunk; tipsy.

  3. Lush

    Lush; growing abundantly.

    • A foreground of lushy meadow-grass, intersected by a streamlet, the light of an afternoon-sun glistening amid the foliage, which occupies two-thirds of the background; […]

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