luscious

Senso (Inglese)

  1. Sweet and pleasant; delicious.
  2. Sexually appealing; seductive.
  3. Obscene.

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/ˈlʌʃəs/
Etimologia (Inglese)

In summary

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.

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