lush
Plural: lushes
Noun
- a person who drinks alcohol to excess habitually
- A drunkard, sot, alcoholic.
- Intoxicating liquor.
- A person who enjoys talking about themselves.
Adjective Satellite
- produced or growing in extreme abundance
- characterized by extravagance and profusion
- full of juice
- "lush fruits"
Adj
- Juicy, succulent.
- Mellow; soft; (of ground or soil) easily turned; fertile.
- Dense, teeming with life; luxuriant.
- Savoury, delicious.
- Thriving; rife; sumptuous.
- Beautiful, sexy.
- Amazing, cool, fantastic, wicked.
- Lax; slack; limp; flexible.
- Drunk; inebriated.
Verb
Verb Forms: lushed, lushing, lushes
- To drink alcohol excessively; to carouse.
- To drink (liquor) to excess.
Adjective
- Abundant in rich, verdant growth; luxurious.
Examples
- Am I humble or am I a lush?
- Boys with long hair are lush!
- He was tempted to LUSH his victory with celebratory drinks.
- That meal was lush! We have to go to that restaurant again sometime!
- The Scrabble board felt LUSH with possibilities after his opponent opened up squares.
- Your voice is lush, Lucy! I could listen to it all day!
Origin / 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.
Synonyms
alcoholic, alky, boozer, dipsomaniac, exuberant, lavish, lucullan, luxuriant, plush, plushy, profuse, riotous, soaker, souse, succulent, adult beverage, alco, alcohol, alkie, bacchanal, bacchant, barfly, bevvy, bibber, booze, booze artist, boozehound, borachio, bosky, bouser, carouse, carouser, cupster, dipso, drink, drinker, drunk, drunkard, egotist, fuddlecap, fuddler, greenly, grog, grog artist, guzzler, inebriate, juicehead, libation, lick-wimble, liquor, lush, lusher, maltworm, narcissist, nightcap, pisshead, pisspot, plonko, potation, potent potable, reel-pot, rinse-pitcher, rumpot, sapful, sappy, sauce, shicker, shot, slubberdegullion, soak, sot, sponge, squeeze-grape, strong-water, suck-pint, sucker, swill-belly, swill-bowl, swill-flagon, swill-pot, swill-tub, swillking, tiddly, tincture, tipple, tippler, toper, tosspot, tun, verdant, verdured, verdurous, virid, viridescent, winebibber, winesop, wino
Scrabble Score: 7
lush: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordlush: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
lush: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary