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luscious
English
Alternative forms
- lushious (obsolete)
Etymology
From earlier lushious, lussyouse (“luscious, richly sweet, delicious”), a corruption of *lustious, from lusty (“pleasant, delicious”) +? -ous. Shakespeare uses both lush (short for lushious) and lusty in the same sense: "How lush and lusty the grass looks" (The Tempest ii. I.52).
An alternative etymology connects luscious to a Middle English term: lucius, an alteration of licious, believed to be a shortening of delicious.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?l???s/
- Rhymes: -???s
Adjective
luscious (comparative more luscious, superlative most luscious)
- Sweet and pleasant; delicious.
- 1863, H.S. Thompson, Down by the River Liv'd a Maiden
- Her lips were like two luscious beefsteaks.
- 1900, L. Frank Baum, The Wizard of Oz
- There were lovely patches of greensward all about, with stately trees bearing rich and luscious fruits.
- 1863, H.S. Thompson, Down by the River Liv'd a Maiden
- Sexually appealing; seductive.
- Obscene.
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lush
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /l??/
- Rhymes: -??
Etymology 1
From Middle English lusch (“slack, relaxed, limp, loose”), from Old English *lysc, lesc (“slack; limp”), from Proto-Germanic *laskwaz (“weak, false, feeble”), from Proto-Indo-European *l?y- (“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 l?skr (“weak, feeble”), Gothic ???????????????????????? (lasiws, “weak, feeble”), Middle Low German las, lasich (“slack, languid, idle”), Low German lusch (“loose”). Doublet of lusk. More at lishey, lazy.
Adjective
lush (comparative lusher, superlative lushest)
- Juicy, succulent.
- Synonyms: sapful, sappy
- (dialectal) Mellow; soft; (of ground or soil) easily turned; fertile.
- (of vegetation) Dense, teeming with life; luxuriant.
- (of food) Savoury, delicious.
- (miscellaneous) Thriving; rife; sumptuous.
- (Britain, slang) Beautiful, sexy.
- (Britain, Canada, slang) Amazing, cool, fantastic, wicked.
- (obsolete) Lax; slack; limp; flexible.
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Etymology 2
Perhaps a humorous use of the preceding word, or perhaps from Shelta lush (“food and drink”) (the sense "liquor" is older than the sense "drinker"). The Century Dictionary wrote that it was "said to be so called from one Lushington, a once well-known London brewer", but the Online Etymology Dictionary considers lushington (“drinker”) a humorous extension of lush instead.
Noun
lush (countable and uncountable, plural lushes)
- (slang, derogatory) A drunkard, sot, alcoholic.
- Synonyms: souse, suck-pint; see also Thesaurus:drunkard
- (slang) intoxicating liquor
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:alcoholic beverage
- 1841, Charles Lever, Charles O'Malley
- If your care comes, in the liquor sink it, / Pass along the lush — I'm the boy can drink it.
- (Hawaii, Pidgin, slang) A person who enjoys talking about themselves.
- Synonyms: egotist, narcissist
Translations
Verb
lush (third-person singular simple present lushes, present participle lushing, simple past and past participle lushed)
- (transitive, intransitive) To drink (liquor) to excess.
Derived terms
Translations
References
Anagrams
- Uhls, Ulsh, shul
Albanian
Etymology
Check lushë.
Noun
lush m
- male dog
- hooligan
Related terms
- lushë
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