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gush
English
Etymology
From Middle English guschen, gusshen, gosshien, perhaps from Middle Dutch guysen (“to flow out with a gurgling sound, gush”) or Old Norse gusa (“to gush”), ultimately imitative.
Compare Old Norse geysa (“to gush”), German gießen (“to pour”), Old English ??otan ("to pour"; > English yote). Related to gust.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /????/
- Rhymes: -??
Noun
gush (plural gushes)
- A sudden rapid outflow.
- 1990, Stephen King, The Moving Finger
- There was a cartoon woman in an apron on the front. She stood with one hand on her hip while she used the other hand to pour a gush of drain-cleaner into something that was either an industrial sink or Orson Welles's bidet.
- 1990, Stephen King, The Moving Finger
Translations
Verb
gush (third-person singular simple present gushes, present participle gushing, simple past and past participle gushed)
- (intransitive, also figuratively) To flow forth suddenly, in great volume.
- (transitive, also figuratively) To send (something) flowing forth suddenly in great volume.
- 1993, Brian Lumley, Blood Brothers, Macmillan (?ISBN), page 119:
- The other was no longer capable of controlling his anger; his parasite creature amplified his passion by ten; his jaws cracked open and his great mouth gushed blood from torn gums as teeth grew out of them like bone sickles.
- 2001, Larry L. Miller, Tennessee Place-names, Indiana University Press (?ISBN), page 196:
- A beautiful spring gushed water from the ground in this mountainous sector of Polk County, inspiring the name of the place.
- 1993, Brian Lumley, Blood Brothers, Macmillan (?ISBN), page 119:
- (intransitive, especially of a woman) To ejaculate during orgasm.
- 2008, Anya Bast, The Chosen Sin, Penguin (?ISBN), page 154:
- Her orgasm exploded over her, making her writhe and cry out his name. She gushed over his hand, her cunt gripping and releasing his invading fingers.
- 2009, Emma Holly, Kissing Midnight, Penguin (?ISBN):
- Somehow, this made his ejaculations all the more exciting, sending hot tingles streaking through her as he gushed.
- 2014, Stewart N. Johnson, Parthian Stranger 2 Conspiracy, Trafford Publishing (?ISBN):
- […] she pulled off an amazing orgasm, one after another, she gushed with force, […]
- 2017, Cara McKinnon, Memories of Magic, Stars and Stone Books (?ISBN):
- Odd. She'd never managed to do that to herself before—to climax so hard she gushed. Sometimes her sex partners didn't satisfy her as well as she could on her own, but her most intense orgasms had always been with others.
- 2008, Anya Bast, The Chosen Sin, Penguin (?ISBN), page 154:
- (intransitive, transitive, figuratively) To make an excessive display of enthusiasm, praise, or sentiment.
- 1911, Thompson Buchanan, Making People Happy, page 14:
- Miss Johnson gushed approval with her usual air of coquettish superiority.
- 2010, Pat Williams, Jim Denney, How to Be Like Walt: Capturing the Disney Magic Every Day of Your Life, Simon and Schuster (?ISBN):
- Randy Thornton, a producer with Walt Disney Records, put it this way: “Walt was not a man who gushed praise. His biggest words of approval were, 'That'll work.'
- 2017, Judson G. Everitt, Lesson Plans: The Institutional Demands of Becoming a Teacher, Rutgers University Press (?ISBN):
- Nellie routinely gushed praise to students for good performance whereas Frank was much more sparing in praising students.
- 1911, Thompson Buchanan, Making People Happy, page 14:
Translations
References
- Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933.
Anagrams
- Shug, hugs, shug
Albanian
Etymology
From Proto-Albanian *gunša, close to Lithuanian gùžas (“knag”), Old Norse kjuka (“ankle”) and Old Church Slavonic gust? (gust?, “thick, dense”).
Noun
gush f (definite singular gusha)
- neck, Adam's apple
Related terms
- gungë
- kungull
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progression
English
Etymology
From Old French progression.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /p????????n/
Noun
progression (countable and uncountable, plural progressions)
- The act of moving from one thing to another.
- The act of moving forward or proceeding in a course; motion onward.
- 2003,T.H. Jafar, et al.. Annals of Internal Medicine 139: 244-252.
- The lowest risk for kidney disease progression seemed to be at levels of current systolic blood pressure of 110 to 129 mm Hg.
- 2003,T.H. Jafar, et al.. Annals of Internal Medicine 139: 244-252.
- (mathematics) A sequence obtained by adding or multiplying each term by a constant.
- Development, increase, evolution.
- (music) chord progression
- (exercise) The making an exercise more exerting by manipulating the details of its performance like loaded weight, range of motion, angle, speed.
Antonyms
- regress
- retrogression
Synonyms
- (mathematics): sequence
Derived terms
Related terms
- progress
Translations
Finnish
Noun
progression
- Genitive singular form of progressio.
French
Etymology
From Latin progressionem (accusative of progressio).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /p??.???.sj??/
Noun
progression f (plural progressions)
- progression
Further reading
- “progression” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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