lush

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• /ˈlʌʃ/
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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.

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.

* As an English surname, from the original sense of the adjective lush (“relaxed, slack”). * As a German surname, Americanized from Lüsch, from several placenames in Germany, derived from the obsolete Middle High German liesche (“reeds”). Also East German of Slavic origin, such as Lower Sorbian łuža (“swampy land”), from Proto-Slavic *luža.

105 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Armenian: փարթամ (pʻartʻam) — dense, teeming with life
• Bulgarian: тучен (tučen) — dense, teeming with life
• Bulgarian: пищен (pišten) — dense, teeming with life
• Catalan: gerd — dense, teeming with life
• Chinese Mandarin: 茂密 (màomì) — dense, teeming with life
• Czech: bujný — dense, teeming with life
• Dutch: groen — dense, teeming with life
• Dutch: levend — dense, teeming with life
• Finnish: rehevä — dense, teeming with life
• Finnish: kukoistava — dense, teeming with life
• French: luxuriant — dense, teeming with life
• Galician: vizoso — dense, teeming with life
• German: üppig gewachsen — dense, teeming with life
• Irish: méith — dense, teeming with life
• Italian: rigoglioso — dense, teeming with life
• Italian: rigogliosa — dense, teeming with life
• Italian: lussureggiante — dense, teeming with life
• Lithuanian: vešlus — dense, teeming with life
• Māori: matomato — dense, teeming with life
• Norwegian Nynorsk: frodig — dense, teeming with life
• Persian: سرسبز (sarsabz) — dense, teeming with life
• Portuguese: viçoso — dense, teeming with life
• Portuguese: exuberante — dense, teeming with life
• Romanian: luxuriant — dense, teeming with life
• Russian: бу́йный (bújnyj) — dense, teeming with life
• Slovak: bujný — dense, teeming with life
• Spanish: exuberante — dense, teeming with life
• Spanish: lozano — dense, teeming with life
• Spanish: frondoso — dense, teeming with life
• Spanish: ufano — dense, teeming with life
• Swedish: frodig — dense, teeming with life
• Swedish: grönskande — dense, teeming with life
• Ottoman Turkish: كور (gür) — dense, teeming with life
• Dutch: luxurieus — luxuriant, delicious
• Dutch: delicieus — luxuriant, delicious
• Dutch: weelderig — luxuriant, delicious
• Finnish: mehevä — luxuriant, delicious
• Kabuverdianu: bisós — luxuriant, delicious
• Kabuverdianu: visoze — luxuriant, delicious
• Portuguese: luxuriante — luxuriant, delicious
• Romanian: delicios — luxuriant, delicious
• Romanian: savuros — luxuriant, delicious
• Russian: роско́шный (roskóšnyj) — luxuriant, delicious
• Swedish: luxuös — luxuriant, delicious
• Swedish: smaskig — luxuriant, delicious
• Dutch: sexy — beautiful, sexy
• Finnish: seksikäs — beautiful, sexy
• German: geil — beautiful, sexy
• Romanian: atrăgător — beautiful, sexy
• Romanian: sexy — beautiful, sexy
• Russian: сексапи́льный (sɛksapílʹnyj) — beautiful, sexy
• Swedish: sexig — beautiful, sexy
• Swedish: snygg — beautiful, sexy
• Turkish: azgın — beautiful, sexy
• Turkish: azmış — beautiful, sexy
• Dutch: cool — amazing, cool, fantastic, wicked
• Dutch: de max — amazing, cool, fantastic, wicked
• Dutch: wijs — amazing, cool, fantastic, wicked
• Dutch: tof — amazing, cool, fantastic, wicked
• German: fantastisch — amazing, cool, fantastic, wicked
• German: toll — amazing, cool, fantastic, wicked
• Romanian: extraordinar — amazing, cool, fantastic, wicked
• Romanian: minunat — amazing, cool, fantastic, wicked
• Romanian: grozav — amazing, cool, fantastic, wicked
• Romanian: mișto — amazing, cool, fantastic, wicked
• Russian: кла́ссный (klássnyj) — amazing, cool, fantastic, wicked
• Russian: потряса́ющий (potrjasájuščij) — amazing, cool, fantastic, wicked
• Russian: круто́й (krutój) — amazing, cool, fantastic, wicked
• Russian: клёвый (kljóvyj) — amazing, cool, fantastic, wicked
• Bulgarian: пияница (pijanica) — drunkard, sot, alcoholic
• Dutch: zatlap — drunkard, sot, alcoholic
• Finnish: juoppo — drunkard, sot, alcoholic
• French: alcoolique — drunkard, sot, alcoholic
• German: Alkoholiker — drunkard, sot, alcoholic
• German: Alkoholikerin — drunkard, sot, alcoholic
• German: Besoffener — drunkard, sot, alcoholic
• German: Besoffene — drunkard, sot, alcoholic
• German: Säufer — drunkard, sot, alcoholic
• German: Säuferin — drunkard, sot, alcoholic
• German: Trinker — drunkard, sot, alcoholic
• German: Trinkerin — drunkard, sot, alcoholic
• German: Saufbold — drunkard, sot, alcoholic
• Hindi: शराबी (śarābī) — drunkard, sot, alcoholic
• Italian: alcolizzato — drunkard, sot, alcoholic
• Italian: alcolizzata — drunkard, sot, alcoholic
• Italian: beone — drunkard, sot, alcoholic
• Italian: ubriaco — drunkard, sot, alcoholic
• Italian: ubriaca — drunkard, sot, alcoholic
• Italian: ubriacone — drunkard, sot, alcoholic
• Italian: ubriacona — drunkard, sot, alcoholic
• Italian: spugna — drunkard, sot, alcoholic
• Italian: alcolista — drunkard, sot, alcoholic
• Italian: alcoolista — drunkard, sot, alcoholic
• Romanian: bețiv — drunkard, sot, alcoholic
• Romanian: bețivă — drunkard, sot, alcoholic
• Romanian: alcoolic — drunkard, sot, alcoholic
• Romanian: alcoolică — drunkard, sot, alcoholic
• Romanian: drojdier — drunkard, sot, alcoholic
• Spanish: alcohólico — drunkard, sot, alcoholic
• Spanish: alcohólica — drunkard, sot, alcoholic
• Swedish: fyllo — drunkard, sot, alcoholic
• Swedish: alkis — drunkard, sot, alcoholic
• Swedish: suput — drunkard, sot, alcoholic
• Bulgarian: напивам се (napivam se) — to drink in excess
• Finnish: kännätä — to drink in excess