lush

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A drunkard, sot, alcoholic. countable,derogatory,slang,uncountable
    — Overaged and lecherous lushes at office parties profaning the text, music, and meaning of Christmas carols.
  2. Intoxicating liquor. countable,slang,uncountable
    — 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.
  3. A person who enjoys talking about themselves. Hawaii,countable,slang,uncountable
    — Am I humble or am I a lush?
动词 v.
  1. To drink (liquor) to excess. ambitransitive
形容词 adj.
  1. Juicy, succulent.
    — How luſh and luſty the graſſe lookes ? How greene ?
  2. Drunk; inebriated. slang
    — “’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.”
  3. Mellow; soft; (of ground or soil) easily turned; fertile. dialectal
  4. 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.
  5. Savoury, delicious.
    — That meal was lush! We have to go to that restaurant again sometime!
  6. 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.
  7. Beautiful, sexy. UK,slang
    — Boys with long hair are lush!
  8. Amazing, cool, fantastic, wicked. Canada,UK,slang
    — Your voice is lush, Lucy! I could listen to it all day!
  9. Lax; slack; limp; flexible. obsolete

词形变化

lusher comparative lushest superlative lushes plural lusher comparative lushest superlative lushes present,singular,third-person lushing participle,present lushed participle,past lushed past

词汇关系

衍生词
overlush lush-crib lush-roll lush-roller lush-worker lushy
相关词
gert lush luscious lushen lushly lushness lush up

词源

词源 1
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.
词源 2
Perhaps a humorous use of the preceding word, or perhaps from Shelta lush (“food and drink”) (the sense "liquor" is older than the sense "drinker"). The Century Dictionary wrote that it was "said to be so called from one Lushington, a once well-known London brewer", but the Online Etymology Dictionary considers lushington (“drinker”) a humorous extension of lush instead.
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