Lush

Pronunciation

• IPA: /lʌʃ/
• Rhymes: -ʌʃ

From Middle English lusch ("slack, relaxed, limp, loose"), from Old English *lysc, *lesc ("slack, limp"), from Proto-Germanic *laskaz, *lasiwaz ("weak, false, feeble"), from Proto-Indo-European *las- ("weak"). Akin to Old English lysu, lesu ("false, evil, base"), Middle Low German lasch ("slack"), Middle High German erleswen ("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"). Related to lusk. More at lishey, lazy.

Full definition of lush

Adjective

1. (obsolete) Lax; slack; limp; flexible.
2. (dialectal) Mellow; soft; (of ground or soil) easily turned.
3. (of vegetation) Dense, teeming with life.
• 2006, Stefani Jackenthal, New York TimesSome of the world’s best rain forest and volcanic hiking can be found within the lush canopied Caribbean trail systems. Chock-full of waterfalls and hot springs, bright-colored birds and howling monkeys, flora-lined trails cut through thick, fragrant forests and up cloud-covered mountains.
• 2013-01, Nancy Langston, The Fraught History of a Watery World, European adventurers found themselves within a watery world, a tapestry of streams, channels, wetlands, lakes and lush riparian meadows enriched by floodwaters from the Mississippi River.
4. (slang, of food) Luxuriant, delicious.That meal was lush! We have to go that restaurant again sometime!
5. (British, slang) Beautiful, sexy.Boys with long hair are lush!
6. (British, Canada, slang) Amazing, cool, fantastic, wicked.Your voice is lush, Lucy! I could listen to it all day!

Related terms

Noun

1. (pejorative) drunkard, sot, alcoholic
2. intoxicating liquor

Verb

1. (intransitive) To drink liquor to excess.
2. (transitive) To drink (liquor) to excess.

Derived terms

Anagrams

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