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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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Translations
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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myriad
English
Etymology
From French myriade, from Late Latin myriadis (genitive of myrias), from Ancient Greek ???????? (muriádos), genitive of ?????? (muriás, “number of 10,000”), from ?????? (muríos, “numberless, countless, infinite”).
Pronunciation
- (UK, US) IPA(key): /?m??i.æd/, /?m??i.?d/
Noun
myriad (plural myriads)
- (historical) Ten thousand; 10,000 [from 16th c.]
- A countless number or multitude (of specified things) [from 16th c.]
- 1914, Henry Graham Dakyns, Xenophon, Cyropaedia, Book I:
- How far he surpassed them all may be felt if we remember that no Scythian, although the Scythians are reckoned by their myriads, has ever succeeded in dominating a foreign nation ...
- 1914, Henry Graham Dakyns, Xenophon, Cyropaedia, Book I:
Related terms
- tens of thousands
Usage notes
Used as an adjective (see below), 'myriad' requires neither an article before it nor a preposition after. Because of this, some consider the usage described in sense 2 above, where 'myriad' acts as part of a nominal (or noun) group (that is, "a myriad of animals"), to be tautological.
Translations
Adjective
myriad (not comparable)
- (modifying a singular noun) Multifaceted, having innumerable elements [from 18th c.]
- 1931, William Faulkner, Sanctuary, Vintage 1993, p. 131:
- one night he would be singing at the barred window and yelling down out of the soft myriad darkness of a May night; the next night he would be gone [...].
- 2011 April 6–19, Kara Krekeler, "Researchers at Washington U. have 'itch' to cure problem", West End Word, 40 (7), p. 8:
- "As a clinician, it's a difficult symptom to treat," Cornelius said. "The end symptom may be the same, but what's causing it may be myriad."
- 1931, William Faulkner, Sanctuary, Vintage 1993, p. 131:
- (modifying a plural noun) Great in number; innumerable, multitudinous [from 18th c.]
- 2013 September 28, Kenan Malik, "London Is Special, but Not That Special," New York Times (retrieved 28 September 2013):
- Driven by a perceived political need to adopt a hard-line stance, Mr. Cameron’s coalition government has imposed myriad new restrictions, the aim of which is to reduce net migration to Britain to below 100,000.
- 2013 September 28, Kenan Malik, "London Is Special, but Not That Special," New York Times (retrieved 28 September 2013):
Translations
See also
- plethora
Swedish
Noun
myriad c
- a myriad
Declension
References
- myriad in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
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