Sekirov Dictionary

lush

/ˈlʌʃ/

adjective 9
noun 3
verb 1
forms 5
phrases 3

adjective9

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Dense, teeming with life; luxuriant.
- Virmire is a lush world located on the frontier of the Attican Traverse. Its vast seas and orbital position on the inner life zone have created a wide equatorial band of humid, tropical terrain. — 2008
Thriving; rife; sumptuous.
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Savoury, delicious.
- That meal was lush! We have to go to that restaurant again sometime!
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(UK, slang) Beautiful, sexy.
- Boys with long hair are lush!
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(UK, slang) Amazing, cool, fantastic, wicked.
- Your voice is lush, Lucy! I could listen to it all day!
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Juicy, succulent.
- How lush and lusty the grasse lookes ? How greene ? — 1610
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(slang) Drunk; inebriated.
- “’E generally goes down there when ’e’s got ’is skinful, beggin’ your pardon, sir, an’ they do say that the more lush — in-he-briated ’e is, the more fish ’e catches.” — 1889
(dialect) Mellow; soft; (of ground or soil) easily turned; fertile.
(no longer used) Lax; slack; limp; flexible.

noun3

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(slang, offensive) A drunkard, sot, alcoholic.
- Overaged and lecherous lushes at office parties profaning the text, music, and meaning of Christmas carols. — 1973
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(slang) Intoxicating liquor.
- If your care comes, in the liquor sink it, / Pass along the lush — I'm the boy can drink it. — 1841
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(slang) A person who enjoys talking about themselves.
- Am I humble or am I a lush?

verb1

To drink (liquor) to excess.

forms

lushed · lushing · lushes · lusher · lushest

Phrases with lush

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