lush
Meanings
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
- To drink (liquor) to excess.
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
adult beverage, alco, alcohol, alcoholic, alkie, alky, bacchanal, bacchant, barfly, bevvy, bibber, booze, booze artist, boozehound, boozer, borachio, bosky, bouser, carouse, carouser, cupster, dipso, dipsomaniac, drink, drinker, drunk, drunkard, egotist, exuberant, fuddlecap, fuddler, greenly, grog, grog artist, guzzler, inebriate, juicehead, lavish, libation, lick-wimble, liquor, lucullan, lush, lusher, luxuriant, maltworm, narcissist, nightcap, pisshead, pisspot, plonko, plush, plushy, potation, potent potable, profuse, reel-pot, rinse-pitcher, riotous, rumpot, sapful, sappy, sauce, shicker, shot, slubberdegullion, soak, soaker, sot, souse, sponge, squeeze-grape, strong-water, succulent, 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 is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL wordlush is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
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