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▪ I. gushing, vbl. n.|ˈgʌʃɪŋ|
[f. gush v. + -ing1.]
1. Violent or copious outflow of water, tears, blood, etc. Also with forth, out.
c1380Wyclif Sel. Wks. III. 437 As ȝif hevene of oon cloude sende gushyng of watir & ouerflowede som erþe. 1562Turner Herbal ii. 170 The gussing out of blood of the nose. 1601Holland Pliny I. 62 By the gushing of the sea between, it was plucked from it, and left a Firth. a1750A. Hill Reconciliation Wks. 1753 III. 59 As I rais'd my eyes, their balls struck fire, And watery gushings wept the rash desire. 1832Tennyson Lotos-Eaters 31 To him the gushing of the wave Far far away did seem to mourn and rave On alien shores. a1835Mrs. Hemans Dreaming Child Poems (1875) 458 First gushings of the strong, dark rivers flow.
fig.1800Wordsw. Brothers 407 A gushing from his heart, that took away The power of speech. 1840R. M. McCheyne in Mem. (1872) 363 The gushings of affection.
2. colloq. Extravagant display of feeling or sentiment.
1852Punch 17 July 39/1 The Colonel vehemently condemned the bran new Bribery Act; and with his philanthropic gushings, the Colonel has good, benevolent cause for reprobation of the measure. 1884W. James Coll. Ess. & Rev. (1920) 262 The sentimentalist is so constructed that ‘gushing’ is his or her normal mode of expression. 1890Athenæum 8 Mar. 302/3 The story would be nothing without all the gushing between the brothers.
▪ II. gushing, ppl. a.|ˈgʌʃɪŋ|
[f. gush v. + -ing2.]
That gushes.
1. Flowing or issuing with violence or in copious streams.
1583Stanyhurst æneis ii. (Arb.) 60 And liefe with the gushing bloodshed to the gods he released. 1590Spenser F.Q. i. xi. 22 A gushing river of blacke gory blood. 1640Lithgow (title), The Gushing Teares of Godly Sorrow. 1667Milton P.L. xi. 447 He fell, and deadly pale Groand out his Soul with gushing blood effus'd. c1709Prior Callimachus' Hymn to Jupiter 36 Adown the mount the gushing torrent ran. 1832W. Irving Alhambra I. 72 Her gushing fountains and perennial streams. 1840Dickens Barn. Rudge lxxviii, ‘Yes, triumph’, she cried, with her whole heart and soul in her earnest voice and gushing tears. 1869Phillips Vesuv. iii. 92 The fluid mass no longer issued in a continual and gushing stream.
2. Emitting fluid copiously. rare.
1717Pope Eloisa 35 My gushing eyes o'erflow. 1725― Odyss. v. 413 From his nostrils wide, And gushing mouth, effused the briny tide. 1815Hortensia v. v, Fled is her spirit thro' the gushing wound.
3. transf. Teeming.
1819Byron Juan i. 124 When the showering grapes In Bacchanal profusion reel to earth Purple and gushing. 1823― Island i. ii, The gushing fruits that nature gave untill'd.
4. fig.
a. Effusive, overflowing, displaying or manifesting itself impulsively.
1807Wordsw. White Doe vii. 111 By her gushing thoughts subdued She melted into tears. 1838Lytton Alice 51 The gushing fondness..which should have characterised the love of such a mother to such a child. 1856Mrs. Carlyle Lett. II. 297 Never such gushing affluence of imagery!
b. In depreciatory sense: Given to or characterized by ‘gush’, marked by effusive display of feeling or sentiment. colloq.
1859E. Fitzball 35 Yrs. Dram. Author's Life II. 77 The gushing young ladies..in possession of some of our theatres. 1864Fraser's Mag. Nov. 627 Donald did not belong to what, in the slang of translated Cockneys, is called the Gushing School. 1865M. E. Braddon Only a Clod i. 8 A gushing damsel of thirty-five. 1877Black Green Past. xviii, To hear the confessions of this gushing young creature. 1878Seeley Stein III. 37 The Emperor Alexander..was received with a gushing speech by the Superintendent Gusevius.
Hence ˈgushingly adv., ˈgushingness.
1818Byron Ch. Har. iv. lxxi, Parent of rivers, which flow gushingly. 1859Sat. Rev. 19 Feb. 220/2 This is..in some degree attributable to her gushingness. 1865M. E. Braddon Sir Jasper xiv, The gushingly spontaneous trifler she was wont to be. 1870R. B. Brough Marston Lynch ii. 13 She seizes [him]..gushingly, by the arm. 1871M. Collins Mrq. & Merch. II. viii. 223 Young ladies had..been apt to show themselves gushingly affectionate. |