lush

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   full of juice

   lush fruits

2. 2
   adj

   Juicy, succulent.

   How luſh and luſty the graſſe lookes ? How greene ?

3. 3
   adj

   Dense, teeming with life; luxuriant.

   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.

4. 4
   adj

   Savoury, delicious.

   That meal was lush! We have to go to that restaurant again sometime!

5. 5
   adj

   Thriving; rife; sumptuous.

   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.

6. 6
   adj

   Beautiful, sexy.

   Boys with long hair are lush!

7. 7
   adj

   Amazing, cool, fantastic, wicked.

   Your voice is lush, Lucy! I could listen to it all day!

8. 8
   noun

   A drunkard, sot, alcoholic.

   Overaged and lecherous lushes at office parties profaning the text, music, and meaning of Christmas carols.

Etymology

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.