LUSH

exuberant, lush, luxuriant, profuse, riotous

(adjective) produced or growing in extreme abundance; “their riotous blooming”

lush, succulent

(adjective) tender and full of juice; “lush fruits”; “succulent roast beef”; “succulent plants with thick fleshy leaves”

deluxe, gilded, grand, luxurious, opulent, princely, sumptuous, lush

(adjective) ostentatiously rich and superior in quality; “a princely sum”; “gilded dining rooms”; “these architecture magazines are full of the lush interiors of the rich and famous”

juicy, luscious, red-hot, toothsome, voluptuous, lush

(adjective) having strong sexual appeal; “juicy barmaids”; “a red-hot mama”; “a voluptuous woman”; “a toothsome blonde in a tight dress”

alcoholic, alky, dipsomaniac, boozer, lush, soaker, souse

(noun) a person who drinks alcohol to excess habitually

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Proper noun

Lush

A surname.

Anagrams

• Uhls, Ulsh, shul

Etymology 1

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.

(British, slang) Beautiful, sexy.

(British, Canada, slang) Amazing, cool, fantastic, wicked.

(obsolete) Lax; slack; limp; flexible.

Etymology 2

Noun

lush (countable and uncountable, plural lushes)

(slang, pejorative) Drunkard, sot, alcoholic.

Synonyms: souse, suck-pint, Thesaurus:drunkard

(slang) Intoxicating liquor.

Synonym: Thesaurus:alcoholic beverage

(Hawaii, Pidgin, slang) A person who enjoys talking about themselves

Synonyms: egotist, narcissist

Verb

lush (third-person singular simple present lushes, present participle lushing, simple past and past participle lushed)

(ambitransitive) To drink (liquor) to excess.

Anagrams

• Uhls, Ulsh, shul

Source: Wiktionary


Lush, a. Etym: [Prob. an abbrev. of lushious, fr. luscious.]

Definition: Full of juice or succulence. Tennyson. How lush and lusty the grass looks! how green! Shak.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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Coffee Trivia

According to Guinness World Records, the most massive cup of coffee contained 22,739.14 liters and was created by Alcaldía Municipal de Chinchiná (Colombia) at Parque de Bolívar, Chinchiná, Caldas, Colombia, on 15 June 2019. Fifty people worked for more than a month to build this giant cup. The drink prepared was Arabic coffee.

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