lush

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   Growing thickly and healthily; full of green plants.

   We hiked through a lush rainforest full of waterfalls and birds.

2. 2
   adj

   Soft, juicy, and full of moisture.

   The lush green grass was wet with morning dew.

3. 3
   noun

   A person who drinks too much alcohol.

   By the end of the night he was acting like a real lush.

From Middle English lusch (“slack, relaxed, limp, loose”), from Old English *lysċ, lesċ (“slack; limp”), from Proto-West Germanic *laskwī̆, from Proto-Germanic *laskuz, *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.

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