lush

Meaning

Adj

1. Juicy, succulent.
2. Mellow; soft; (of ground or soil) easily turned; fertile.
3. Dense, teeming with life; luxuriant.
4. Savoury, delicious.
5. Thriving; rife; sumptuous.
6. (slang) Beautiful, sexy.
7. (slang) Amazing, cool, fantastic, wicked.
8. (obsolete) Lax; slack; limp; flexible.

Noun

1. (slang) A drunkard, sot, alcoholic.
2. (slang) Intoxicating liquor.
3. (slang) A person who enjoys talking about themselves.

Verb

To drink (liquor) to excess.

Synonyms

luxuriant

succulent

abundant

rich

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drunkard

boozer

verdant

alcoholic

thick

drunk

dense

freshwater cod

soaker

eelpout

plush

bountiful

juicy

lawyer

ling

plenty

maria

lucullan

plushy

exuberant

luxurious

rank

profuse

lavish

dipsomaniac

cusk

mother eel

green

sot

souse

alky

mud blower

riotous

gudgeon

burbot

be luxuriant

ling-cod

boozehound

developed

expand

fertile

fleecy

flourish

fool

fresh

full

gracious

grassy

greenish

Greenland

🇬🇱

guzzler

imbiber

new

🆕

overgrown

prolific

puffy

raw

ripe

sapid

sappy

soft

spread

sweet

sybaritic

toper

unripe

virgin

verdurous

fresh and green

bright green

lingcod

American burbot

ellpout

alkie

freshwater eel

Pronounced as (IPA)

/lʌʃ/

Etymology

From Middle English lusch (“slack, relaxed, limp, loose”), from Old English *lysċ, lesċ (“slack; limp”), from Proto-West Germanic *laskw, from Proto-Germanic *laskwaz (“weak, false, feeble”), from Proto-Indo-European *lēy- (“to let; leave behind”).
Akin to Old English lysu, lesu (“false, evil, base”), Middle Low German lasch (“slack”), Middle High German er-leswen (“to become weak”), Old Norse lǫskr (“weak, feeble”), Gothic 𐌻𐌰𐍃𐌹𐍅𐍃 (lasiws, “weak, feeble”), Middle Low German las, lasich (“slack, languid, idle”), Low German lusch (“loose”). Doublet of lusk. More at lishey, lazy.