different between gunshy vs gushy

English

Alternative forms

• gun shy

Etymology

From gun +? shy.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??n.?a?/

Adjective

gunshy (comparative more gunshy, superlative most gunshy)

1. Afraid to use a gun.
2. Frightened by the sound of gunfire.
3. (figuratively) Fearing the consequences of repeating an act, especially after being reprimanded.

   After his last suggestion was laughed at by his colleagues, he was gunshy about making another suggestion.

English

Etymology

gush +? -y

Adjective

gushy (comparative gushier, superlative gushiest)

1. Gushing; effusive and often emotional.
2. (uncommon) Tending to gush, to produce a large flow of liquid.
   • 1994, Houghton Mifflin Company, Insight, Insight Guides, Insight Guide Hawaii, Insight Guides (?ISBN)

     Spouting water: Early Hawaiians named this l l/2-mile strip of coast Waikiki, or “spouting water,” its inland part a swamp nurtured by descending mountain streams and gushy spring waters. As early as the 1400s, Hawaiians utilized this water ...

   • 2007, Rechella, Players Got Played, Kensington Books (?ISBN), page 112:

     Off with my beige bikini set, then he parted my legs and went straight for for the gushy pussy and gushy it was. I was seeping like a loose faucet.

   • 2015, Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba, Sathya Sai Speaks Volume 1, Sri Sathya Sai Sadhana Trust, Publications Division (?ISBN):

     Just as underground water wells up in a gushy spring, when a bore is sunk down to that depth, […]

Related terms

• gushiness
• gushily (adverb)

References

• Merriam-Webster Online