lush
adjective
[ lʌʃ ]
• (of vegetation, especially grass) growing luxuriantly.
• "lush greenery and cultivated fields"
Similar:
luxuriant,
rich,
abundant,
superabundant,
profuse,
exuberant,
riotous,
prolific,
teeming,
flourishing,
thriving,
vigorous,
dense,
thick,
rank,
rampant,
overgrown,
jungle-like,
verdant,
green,
jungly,
• sexually attractive.
Origin:
late Middle English: perhaps an alteration of obsolete lash ‘soft, lax’, from Old French lasche ‘lax’, by association with luscious.
lush
noun
• a heavy drinker, especially a habitual one.
• "a lush who doesn't make very much sense most of the time"
lush
verb
• make (someone) drunk.
• "Mr Hobart got so lushed up he was spilling drinks down his shirt"
Origin:
late 18th century: perhaps a humorous use of lush1.
