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Webster 1913 Edition

Lush

Lush

(lŭsh)
,
Adj.
[Prob. an abbrev. of
lushious
, fr.
luscious
.]
1.
Full of juice or succulence.
Tennyson.
How
lush
and lusty the grass looks! how green!
Shakespeare

Webster 1828 Edition

Lush

LUSH

,
Adj.
Of a dark, keep, full color.
How lush and lusty the grass looks; how green! Obs.

Definition 2024

Lush

Lush

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English

Proper noun

Lush

  1. A surname​.

lush

lush

See also: Lush

English

Adjective

lush ‎(comparative lusher, superlative lushest)

  1. (obsolete) Lax; slack; limp; flexible.
  2. (dialectal) Mellow; soft; (of ground or soil) easily turned.
  3. (of vegetation) Dense, teeming with life.
    • 2006, Stefani Jackenthal, New York Times
      Some of the world’s best rain forest and volcanic hiking can be found within the lush canopied Caribbean trail systems. Chock-full of waterfalls and hot springs, bright-colored birds and howling monkeys, flora-lined trails cut through thick, fragrant forests and up cloud-covered mountains.
    • 2013 January 1, Nancy Langston, “The Fraught History of a Watery World”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 1, page 59:
      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. (slang, of food) Luxuriant, delicious.
    That meal was lush! We have to go that restaurant again sometime!
  5. (Britain, slang) Beautiful, sexy.
    Boys with long hair are lush!
  6. (Britain, Canada, slang) Amazing, cool, fantastic, wicked.
    Your voice is lush, Lucy! I could listen to it all day!
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Etymology 2

Perhaps a humorous use of the preceding word, or perhaps from Shelta lush ‎(“food and drink”).[1]

Noun

lush ‎(plural lushes)

  1. (slang, pejorative) Drunkard, sot, alcoholic.
  2. (slang) Intoxicating liquor.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of C. Lever to this entry?)
Translations

Verb

lush ‎(third-person singular simple present lushes, present participle lushing, simple past and past participle lushed)

  1. (intransitive) To drink liquor to excess.
  2. (transitive) To drink (liquor) to excess.
Derived terms

References

  1. ↑ An Etymological Dictionary of Modern English (ISBN 0486122867)

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Etymology

From Middle English lusch ‎(“slack, relaxed, limp, loose”), from Old English *lysc, *lesc ‎(“slack; limp”), from Proto-Germanic *laskwaz, *lasiwaz ‎(“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 erleswen ‎(“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”). Related to lusk. More at lishey, lazy.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /lʌʃ/
  • Rhymes: -ʌʃ

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