From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishlushlush1 /lʌʃ/ adjective 1 HBPDLGplants that are lush grow many leaves and look healthy and strong a lush green mountainous island The fields were lush with grass and flowers.2 BEAUTIFUL/GOOD-LOOKINGvery beautiful, comfortable, and expensive SYN luxurious lush carpets3 lush music has a lot of pleasant-sounding instruments or voices together lush vocal harmonies4 informal very attractive or nice – used especially by young people He looks so lush in this pic!
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lush• Mist ferns daily with plastic spray bottle to keep them green and lush.• It was green, lush and luxuriant, ringed by the mountains with snowy peaks.• lush fabrics• a lush garden• First, we need a long, warm, unbroken growing season to provide a plentiful diet of lush herbage.• The famous walls and ramparts of the city, now surround lush lawns and leafy trees.• Similarly, Colescott paints big, lush narrative acrylics on canvas, hard-hitting narrative works that travel across time and history.• They have lush stands of elm trees and will require minimal leveling.lushlush2 noun [countable] informalMIDRUNK an alcoholicExamples from the Corpus
lush• This is a film to make you feel fabulous about being a lush.• See, the dude is a lush and we give him time to get mellow.• It sketches the usual story of Meurent, the model who dabbled in painting, who was a lush and promiscuous.• What are you drinking, you big lush?• You'll see her sitting at the bar all day. She's a real lush.• This lush, seething insularity-what am I supposed to be learning, what are the lessons here?Origin lush1 (1400-1500) Perhaps from Old French lache “soft, loose” lush2 (1700-1800) Perhaps from → LUSH1 