lush
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /lʌʃ/
rhymes: -ʌʃ
Forms: form: lusher
form: lushest
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.
Senses: examples: text: How luſh and luſty the graſſe lookes ? How greene ?
ref: 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i], page 6:
synonyms: sapful
sappy
glosses: Juicy, succulent.
glosses: Mellow; soft; (of ground or soil) easily turned; fertile.
examples: text: Some 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.
ref: 2006, Stefani Jackenthal, New York Times:
text: Virmire is a lush world located on the frontier of the Attican Traverse. Its vast seas and orbital position on the inner life zone have created a wide equatorial band of humid, tropical terrain.
ref: 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Planets: Virmire Codex entry:
text: 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.
ref: 2013 January 24, Nancy Langston, “The Fraught History of a Watery World”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 1, archived from the original on 22 Jan 2013, page 59:
synonyms: word: bosky
word: verdant
word: bosky
word: greenly
word: lavish
word: lush
word: verdant
word: verdured
word: verdurous
word: virid
word: viridescent
glosses: Dense, teeming with life; luxuriant.
raw_tags: of vegetation
examples: text: That meal was lush! We have to go to that restaurant again sometime!
glosses: Savoury, delicious.
raw_tags: of food
examples: text: They rolled into Jane's room a wheeled cart lush with cake and cookies and shrimp and crudités and pop and soda water. The staff was giving us a going-away party for our trip to Seattle; it was good to understand their confidence.
ref: 2005, Donald Hall, The Best Day the Worst Day: Life with Jane Kenyon, Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, →ISBN, page 105:
glosses: Thriving; rife; sumptuous.
examples: text: Boys with long hair are lush!
glosses: Beautiful, sexy.
examples: text: Your voice is lush, Lucy! I could listen to it all day!
glosses: Amazing, cool, fantastic, wicked.
glosses: Lax; slack; limp; flexible.
Derived terms: overlush
Related terms: gert lush
luscious
lushen
lushly
lushness
lush up