lush
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Is lush a Scrabble word?
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Definition
adj (English)
1. (dialectal) Mellow; soft; (of ground or soil) easily turned; fertile.dialectal
2. (of vegetation) Dense, teeming with life; luxuriant.Examples: "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."; "Virmire is a lush world located on the frontier of the Attican Traverse. Its vast seas and orbital position on the inner life zone have created a wide equatorial band of humid, tropical terrain."; "European adventurers found themselves within a watery world, a tapestry of streams, channels, wetlands, lakes and lush riparian meadows enriched by floodwaters from the Mississippi River."Synonyms: bosky, verdant, bosky, greenly, lavish, lush, verdant, verdured
3. (of food) Savoury, delicious.Examples: "That meal was lush! We have to go to that restaurant again sometime!"
4. (British, slang) Beautiful, sexy.Examples: "Boys with long hair are lush!"Britishslang
5. (British, Canada, slang) Amazing, cool, fantastic, wicked.Examples: "Your voice is lush, Lucy! I could listen to it all day!"BritishCanadaslang
6. (obsolete) Lax; slack; limp; flexible.obsolete
noun (English)
1. (slang, derogatory) A drunkard, sot, alcoholic.Examples: "Overaged and lecherous lushes at office parties profaning the text, music, and meaning of Christmas carols."Synonyms: souse, suck-pint, alco, alcoholic, alkie, bacchanal, bacchant, barflycountablederogatoryslanguncountable
2. (slang) Intoxicating liquor.Examples: "I took my flogging like a stone. If I had sung, some of the convicts would have given me some lush with a locust in it (laudanum hocussing), and when I was asleep would have given me a crack on the head that would have laid me straight."; "If your care comes, in the liquor sink it, / Pass along the lush — I'm the boy can drink it."Synonyms: adult beverage, alcohol, bevvy, booze, carouse, drink, grog, libationcountableslanguncountable
3. (Hawaii, Pidgin, slang) A person who enjoys talking about themselves.Examples: "Am I humble or am I a lush?"Synonyms: egotist, narcissistHawaiicountableslanguncountable
adj (English)
1. (slang) Drunk; inebriated.Examples: "“’E generally goes down there when ’e’s got ’is skinful, beggin’ your pardon, sir, an’ they do say that the more lush — in-he-briated ’e is, the more fish ’e catches.”"slang
verb (English)
1. (ambitransitive) To drink (liquor) to excess.ambitransitive
Definition source: Wiktionary