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LUSH
exuberant, lush, luxuriant, profuse, riotous
(adjective) produced or growing in extreme abundance; âtheir riotous bloomingâ
lush, succulent
(adjective) tender and full of juice; âlush fruitsâ; âsucculent roast beefâ; âsucculent plants with thick fleshy leavesâ
deluxe, gilded, grand, luxurious, opulent, princely, sumptuous, lush
(adjective) ostentatiously rich and superior in quality; âa princely sumâ; âgilded dining roomsâ; âthese architecture magazines are full of the lush interiors of the rich and famousâ
juicy, luscious, red-hot, toothsome, voluptuous, lush
(adjective) having strong sexual appeal; âjuicy barmaidsâ; âa red-hot mamaâ; âa voluptuous womanâ; âa toothsome blonde in a tight dressâ
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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(noun) the use of closed-class words instead of inflections: e.g., âthe father of the brideâ instead of âthe brideâs fatherâ
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