lusciousadj.

Brit.

/ˈlʌʃəs/, U.S.

/ˈləʃəs/

Forms: Middle English lucius, 1500s lousious, looshiouse, 1500s–1600s lussious, (1500s lussyouse, 1600s loushous), 1500s–1700s lushious, (1600s lushyous), 1500s– luscious.

Etymology: Of obscure origin. The form lucius , occurring in a manuscript which elsewhere has licius in the same sense (see licious adj.) suggests (as Prof. Skeat has remarked) that the word may be an aphetic form of delicious adj. and n., with altered vowel. But phonetically this is unsatisfactory, and no better suggestion has been made.

a. Of food, perfumes, etc.: Sweet and highly pleasant to the taste or smell.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > taste and flavour > sweetness > [adjective]

sweetc888

sootc950

doucea1350

sweetlya1350

softa1398

lusciousc1420

dulcet1440

mellite?1440

sugarishc1450

dulce1508

ambrosiana1522

figgy?1549

nut-sweet1586

nectaredc1595

dulcid1596

marmalady1602

fat1610

unsharp1611

unsour1611

marmalade1617

dulcorous1676

dulceous1688

saccharaceous1689

sugar-candyish1852

saccharic1945

the world > physical sensation > smell and odour > fragrance > [adjective]

sweet900

sootc950

aromatic1366

merrya1398

well-smellinga1398

sweet-smellingc1400

lusciousc1420

savoury?a1425

redolingc1429

redolent?a1439

odorate?1440

flagrant1450

redolentc1450

well-savouringc1450

aromatous1483

softa1500

well-aired1505

balmy1508

ambrosiana1522

embalmeda1529

fragrantc1530

perfumed1538

scented?c1562

scented1567

balm-like1569

sweet1573

aromatizate1576

aromatical1578

Sabaeana1586

ambrosial1590

rich1590

perfumed1591

sweet-scented1591

reperfumed1593

balm-breathing1595

nectaredc1595

spiced1600

fuming1601

fumed1612

scentful1612

balsam1624

perfumy1625

odoraminous1656

aroma-olent1657

suaveolent1657

aromatized1661

essenced1675

balsamy1687

flavorous1697

balsamic1714

well-scented1726

scenty1738

breathing1757

spicy1765

flavouriferous1773

aromal1848

bescented1863

euodic1868

nosy1892

c1420 Anturs of Arth. (Taylor) 458 With lucius drinkes, and metis of the best.

1566 T. Drant tr. Horace Medicinable Morall sig. H The stronge may eate good looshiouse meate.

1600 W. Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream ii. i. 251 I know a banke..Quite ouercanopi'd with lushious woodbine.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1622) i. iii. 348 The food that to him now, is as lushious as Locusts, shall be to him shortly as acerbe as the Colloquintida.

1630 M. Drayton Muses Elizium iii. 29 The lushyous smell of euery flower.

1655 T. Fuller Hist. Waltham-Abby 5 in Church-hist. Brit. The grass..is so sweet and lushious to Cattle, that they diet them.

a1700 J. Dryden Daphnis & Chloris in Poems (1743) II. 40 Blown Roses hold their Sweetness to the last, And Raisins keep their luscious native taste.

1733 G. Cheyne Eng. Malady ii. v. 159 The Means us'd commonly in making it [food] more luscious and palatable.

1760 T. Warton Idler 16 Feb. 49 The most luscious Fruits had been suffered to ripen and decay.

1840 R. Browning Sordello 634 Like the great palmer~worm that..Eats the life out of every luscious plant.

1869 R. Browning Ring & Bk. III. ix. 194 The luscious Lenten creature [sc. the eel].

1870 H. Macmillan Bible Teachings ix. 187 Its luscious clusters of golden or purple fruit.

quasi-adverb.1588 T. Hariot Briefe Rep. Virginia B 2 b There are two kinds of grapes..: the one is small and sowre..: the other farre greater & of himselfe lushious sweet.figurative.1665 R. Boyle Occas. Refl. v. iii. sig. Kk3^v The luscious sweets of sin.a1716 R. South 12 Serm. (1717) VI. 164 May there not be..Something more glistring than a Crown, and more luscious than Revenge?1848 C. Kingsley Saint's Trag. iii. ii. 250 Sinking down In luscious rest again.

†b. transferred of a young person. Obsolete.

ΚΠ

1742 H. Fielding Joseph Andrews I. i. vi. 33 He..really is..a strong, healthy, luscious Boy enough.

2. In bad sense: Sweet to excess, cloying, sickly.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > taste and flavour > sweetness > [adjective] > overly sweet

wallow-sweetc1440

oversweeta1475

luscious1530

wallowish-sweet1575

overluscious1626

over-sweetened1818

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 313/1 Fresshe or lussyouse as meate that is nat well seasoned, or that hath an unplesante swetnesse in it, fade.

1616 G. Markham tr. C. Estienne et al. Maison Rustique (rev. ed.) ii. xlviii. 239 The smell of them [sc. other Lillies] is lussious, grosse, and vnwholesome.

1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Lushious, over~sweet, cloying.

1816 W. Scott Old Mortality Concl., in Tales of my Landlord 1st Ser. IV. 338 The last cup..is by no means improved by the luscious lump of half-dissolved sugar usually found at the bottom of it.

1830 M. Donovan Domest. Econ. I. viii. 275 Without the addition of water..the resulting wine will be luscious and heavy.

1877 ‘Rita’ Vivienne iii. vi And the luscious dreary odours of..fading flowers and trodden fruits, were heavy in the air.

a. Of immaterial things, esp. of language or literary style: Sweet and highly pleasing to the eye, ear, or mind. Chiefly in unfavourable use, implying a kind of ‘sweetness’ not strictly in accordance with good taste.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > pleasure > quality of being pleasant or pleasurable > [adjective] > honeyed, mellifluous, or luscious

honeyfula1400

honeyed1435

mellifluous?a1475

sugarc1530

sweetful1589

sugary1591

honeysome1593

sweet-seasoned1609

sugar-candied1623

creamya1640

luscious1651

saccharine1841

mouth-watering1847

sugar-candyish1852

goluptious1856

yummy1899

society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > ornateness > [adjective]

overwrittenOE

flourished1303

orne?a1425

ornatea1450

purpuratec1475

gallant1484

flourishinga1552

gorgeous1561

coloured1571

flowerya1616

ornated1630

flosculent1646

luscious1651

chromatic1652

romantic1653

gaudy1655

florid1656

blooming1685

bloomy1685

dressy1713

colouring1807

colorific1812

emblazoned1813

embroidered1868

purple1941

1651 T. Fuller Abel Redevivus 4 He often..addulced his discourse with all luscious expressions unto him.

a1652 A. Wilson Hist. Great Brit. (1653) Proem, sig. A5^v Lushious words, that give no good rellish to the sense.

1686 G. Burnet Lett. Present State Italy v. 298 All those luscious Panegyricks of Mercenary pens.

1738 T. Birch App. Life Milton I. 78 A luscious Style stuffed with gawdy Metaphors and Fancy.

1822 W. Hazlitt Table-talk (1869) 2nd Ser. iii. 66 A stream of luscious panegyrics.

1840 C. Kingsley Lett. (1878) I. 50 I have shed strange tears at the sight of the most luscious and sunny prospects.

1902 Longman's Mag. Mar. 479 The Lotus Eaters..is what may be called a luscious expansion of four or five lines of the Odyssey.

b. Of colouring, design, etc.

ΚΠ

1849 J. Ruskin Seven Lamps Archit. ii. 42 The groups of children,..luscious in colour and faint in light.

1849 J. Ruskin Seven Lamps Archit. iv. 105 This extraordinary piece of luscious ugliness [a festoon].

†4. Of tales, conversation, writing, etc.: Gratifying to lascivious tastes, voluptuous, wanton. Rarely of a person: Lascivious. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > malediction > [adjective] > strong, sulphurous (of language)

untowen13..

largea1413

thundering1543

viperous1605

luscious1614

peppering1712

rough1750

unquotable1821

sulphurous1828

piercent1829

unrepeatable1831

bituminous1878

sultry1891

unprintable1898

four-letter1923

1614 T. Overbury et al. Characters in Wife now Widdow sig. C4 Shee leaues the neat youth telling his lushious tales.

a1694 J. Tillotson Serm. (1744) XI. ccviii. 4717 Those luscious doctrines of the Antinomians.

1709 A. Pope Chaucer's January & May in Poet. Misc.: 6th Pt. 200 Cantharides,..Whose Use old Bards describe in luscious Rhymes.

1748 S. Richardson Clarissa VI. cxx. 377 Calista [in ‘The Fair Penitent’] is a desiring luscious wench.

1766 J. Fordyce Serm. Young Women I. iv. 149 Their descriptions are often loose and luscious in a high degree.

1815 W. H. Ireland Scribbleomania 143 Descriptions so luscious—such pictures of passion That prudes, ta'en with furor, to ruin might dash on.

5. absol. (with the).

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > vigour or force > [noun] > piquancy or poignancy > piquant writing

luscious1708

1708 Brit. Apollo 5–10 Nov. There's a Great deal of Wit, But the Devil a Bit Of the lushious, can I find In't.

1790 A. Wilson Poems 103 A poet, Whose mem'ry will live while the Luscious can charm.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1903; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	luscious
释义	lusciousadj. Brit. /ˈlʌʃəs/, U.S. /ˈləʃəs/ Forms: Middle English lucius, 1500s lousious, looshiouse, 1500s–1600s lussious, (1500s lussyouse, 1600s loushous), 1500s–1700s lushious, (1600s lushyous), 1500s– luscious. Etymology: Of obscure origin. The form lucius , occurring in a manuscript which elsewhere has licius in the same sense (see licious adj.) suggests (as Prof. Skeat has remarked) that the word may be an aphetic form of delicious adj. and n., with altered vowel. But phonetically this is unsatisfactory, and no better suggestion has been made. 1. a. Of food, perfumes, etc.: Sweet and highly pleasant to the taste or smell. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > taste and flavour > sweetness > [adjective] sweetc888 sootc950 doucea1350 sweetlya1350 softa1398 lusciousc1420 dulcet1440 mellite?1440 sugarishc1450 dulce1508 ambrosiana1522 figgy?1549 nut-sweet1586 nectaredc1595 dulcid1596 marmalady1602 fat1610 unsharp1611 unsour1611 marmalade1617 dulcorous1676 dulceous1688 saccharaceous1689 sugar-candyish1852 saccharic1945 the world > physical sensation > smell and odour > fragrance > [adjective] sweet900 sootc950 aromatic1366 merrya1398 well-smellinga1398 sweet-smellingc1400 lusciousc1420 savoury?a1425 redolingc1429 redolent?a1439 odorate?1440 flagrant1450 redolentc1450 well-savouringc1450 aromatous1483 softa1500 well-aired1505 balmy1508 ambrosiana1522 embalmeda1529 fragrantc1530 perfumed1538 scented?c1562 scented1567 balm-like1569 sweet1573 aromatizate1576 aromatical1578 Sabaeana1586 ambrosial1590 rich1590 perfumed1591 sweet-scented1591 reperfumed1593 balm-breathing1595 nectaredc1595 spiced1600 fuming1601 fumed1612 scentful1612 balsam1624 perfumy1625 odoraminous1656 aroma-olent1657 suaveolent1657 aromatized1661 essenced1675 balsamy1687 flavorous1697 balsamic1714 well-scented1726 scenty1738 breathing1757 spicy1765 flavouriferous1773 aromal1848 bescented1863 euodic1868 nosy1892 c1420 Anturs of Arth. (Taylor) 458 With lucius drinkes, and metis of the best. 1566 T. Drant tr. Horace Medicinable Morall sig. H The stronge may eate good looshiouse meate. 1600 W. Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream ii. i. 251 I know a banke..Quite ouercanopi'd with lushious woodbine. View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1622) i. iii. 348 The food that to him now, is as lushious as Locusts, shall be to him shortly as acerbe as the Colloquintida. 1630 M. Drayton Muses Elizium iii. 29 The lushyous smell of euery flower. 1655 T. Fuller Hist. Waltham-Abby 5 in Church-hist. Brit. The grass..is so sweet and lushious to Cattle, that they diet them. a1700 J. Dryden Daphnis & Chloris in Poems (1743) II. 40 Blown Roses hold their Sweetness to the last, And Raisins keep their luscious native taste. 1733 G. Cheyne Eng. Malady ii. v. 159 The Means us'd commonly in making it [food] more luscious and palatable. 1760 T. Warton Idler 16 Feb. 49 The most luscious Fruits had been suffered to ripen and decay. 1840 R. Browning Sordello 634 Like the great palmer~worm that..Eats the life out of every luscious plant. 1869 R. Browning Ring & Bk. III. ix. 194 The luscious Lenten creature [sc. the eel]. 1870 H. Macmillan Bible Teachings ix. 187 Its luscious clusters of golden or purple fruit. quasi-adverb.1588 T. Hariot Briefe Rep. Virginia B 2 b There are two kinds of grapes..: the one is small and sowre..: the other farre greater & of himselfe lushious sweet.figurative.1665 R. Boyle Occas. Refl. v. iii. sig. Kk3^v The luscious sweets of sin.a1716 R. South 12 Serm. (1717) VI. 164 May there not be..Something more glistring than a Crown, and more luscious than Revenge?1848 C. Kingsley Saint's Trag. iii. ii. 250 Sinking down In luscious rest again. †b. transferred of a young person. Obsolete. ΚΠ 1742 H. Fielding Joseph Andrews I. i. vi. 33 He..really is..a strong, healthy, luscious Boy enough. View more context for this quotation 2. In bad sense: Sweet to excess, cloying, sickly. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > taste and flavour > sweetness > [adjective] > overly sweet wallow-sweetc1440 oversweeta1475 luscious1530 wallowish-sweet1575 overluscious1626 over-sweetened1818 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 313/1 Fresshe or lussyouse as meate that is nat well seasoned, or that hath an unplesante swetnesse in it, fade. 1616 G. Markham tr. C. Estienne et al. Maison Rustique (rev. ed.) ii. xlviii. 239 The smell of them [sc. other Lillies] is lussious, grosse, and vnwholesome. 1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Lushious, over~sweet, cloying. 1816 W. Scott Old Mortality Concl., in Tales of my Landlord 1st Ser. IV. 338 The last cup..is by no means improved by the luscious lump of half-dissolved sugar usually found at the bottom of it. 1830 M. Donovan Domest. Econ. I. viii. 275 Without the addition of water..the resulting wine will be luscious and heavy. 1877 ‘Rita’ Vivienne iii. vi And the luscious dreary odours of..fading flowers and trodden fruits, were heavy in the air. 3. a. Of immaterial things, esp. of language or literary style: Sweet and highly pleasing to the eye, ear, or mind. Chiefly in unfavourable use, implying a kind of ‘sweetness’ not strictly in accordance with good taste. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pleasure > quality of being pleasant or pleasurable > [adjective] > honeyed, mellifluous, or luscious honeyfula1400 honeyed1435 mellifluous?a1475 sugarc1530 sweetful1589 sugary1591 honeysome1593 sweet-seasoned1609 sugar-candied1623 creamya1640 luscious1651 saccharine1841 mouth-watering1847 sugar-candyish1852 goluptious1856 yummy1899 society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > ornateness > [adjective] overwrittenOE flourished1303 orne?a1425 ornatea1450 purpuratec1475 gallant1484 flourishinga1552 gorgeous1561 coloured1571 flowerya1616 ornated1630 flosculent1646 luscious1651 chromatic1652 romantic1653 gaudy1655 florid1656 blooming1685 bloomy1685 dressy1713 colouring1807 colorific1812 emblazoned1813 embroidered1868 purple1941 1651 T. Fuller Abel Redevivus 4 He often..addulced his discourse with all luscious expressions unto him. a1652 A. Wilson Hist. Great Brit. (1653) Proem, sig. A5^v Lushious words, that give no good rellish to the sense. 1686 G. Burnet Lett. Present State Italy v. 298 All those luscious Panegyricks of Mercenary pens. 1738 T. Birch App. Life Milton I. 78 A luscious Style stuffed with gawdy Metaphors and Fancy. 1822 W. Hazlitt Table-talk (1869) 2nd Ser. iii. 66 A stream of luscious panegyrics. 1840 C. Kingsley Lett. (1878) I. 50 I have shed strange tears at the sight of the most luscious and sunny prospects. 1902 Longman's Mag. Mar. 479 The Lotus Eaters..is what may be called a luscious expansion of four or five lines of the Odyssey. b. Of colouring, design, etc. ΚΠ 1849 J. Ruskin Seven Lamps Archit. ii. 42 The groups of children,..luscious in colour and faint in light. 1849 J. Ruskin Seven Lamps Archit. iv. 105 This extraordinary piece of luscious ugliness [a festoon]. †4. Of tales, conversation, writing, etc.: Gratifying to lascivious tastes, voluptuous, wanton. Rarely of a person: Lascivious. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > malediction > [adjective] > strong, sulphurous (of language) untowen13.. largea1413 thundering1543 viperous1605 luscious1614 peppering1712 rough1750 unquotable1821 sulphurous1828 piercent1829 unrepeatable1831 bituminous1878 sultry1891 unprintable1898 four-letter1923 1614 T. Overbury et al. Characters in Wife now Widdow sig. C4 Shee leaues the neat youth telling his lushious tales. a1694 J. Tillotson Serm. (1744) XI. ccviii. 4717 Those luscious doctrines of the Antinomians. 1709 A. Pope Chaucer's January & May in Poet. Misc.: 6th Pt. 200 Cantharides,..Whose Use old Bards describe in luscious Rhymes. 1748 S. Richardson Clarissa VI. cxx. 377 Calista [in ‘The Fair Penitent’] is a desiring luscious wench. 1766 J. Fordyce Serm. Young Women I. iv. 149 Their descriptions are often loose and luscious in a high degree. 1815 W. H. Ireland Scribbleomania 143 Descriptions so luscious—such pictures of passion That prudes, ta'en with furor, to ruin might dash on. 5. absol. (with the). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > vigour or force > [noun] > piquancy or poignancy > piquant writing luscious1708 1708 Brit. Apollo 5–10 Nov. There's a Great deal of Wit, But the Devil a Bit Of the lushious, can I find In't. 1790 A. Wilson Poems 103 A poet, Whose mem'ry will live while the Luscious can charm. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1903; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.c1420
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