† lushn.1
Obsolete.
A stroke, blow.
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the world > movement > impact > striking > [noun] > a stroke or blow
dintc897
swengOE
shutec1000
kill?c1225
swipc1275
stroke1297
dentc1325
touchc1325
knock1377
knalc1380
swapc1384
woundc1384
smitinga1398
lush?a1400
sowa1400
swaipa1400
wapc1400
smita1425
popc1425
rumbelowc1425
hitc1450
clope1481
rimmel1487
blow1488
dinga1500
quartera1500
ruska1500
tucka1500
recounterc1515
palta1522
nolpc1540
swoop1544
push1561
smot1566
veny1578
remnant1580
venue1591
cuff1610
poltc1610
dust1611
tank1686
devel1787
dunching1789
flack1823
swinge1823
looder1825
thrash1840
dolk1861
thresh1863
mace-blow1879
pulsation1891
nosebleeder1921
slosh1936
smackeroo1942
dab-
?a1400 Morte Arth. 3848 With the lussche of the launce he lyghte one hys schuldyrs.
c1440 York Myst. xxviii. 271 Here with a lusshe, lordayne, I schalle þe allowe.
1887 D. Donaldson Jamieson's Sc. Dict. Suppl. Lush, a stroke, blow, cut, as with a wand or cane.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1903; most recently modified version published online March 2021).
lushn.2
/lʌʃ/, U.S. /ləʃ/ slang.
a. Liquor, drink.
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the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > [noun]
drink1042
liquor1340
bousea1350
cidera1382
dwale1393
sicera1400
barrelc1400
strong drinkc1405
watera1475
swig1548
tipple1581
amber1598
tickle-brain1598
malt pie1599
swill1602
spicket1615
lap1618
John Barleycornc1625
pottle1632
upsy Englisha1640
upsy Friese1648
tipplage1653
heartsease1668
fuddle1680
rosin1691
tea1693
suck1699
guzzlea1704
alcohol1742
the right stuff1748
intoxicant1757
lush1790
tear-brain1796
demon1799
rum1799
poison1805
fogram1808
swizzle1813
gatter1818
wine(s) and spirit(s)1819
mother's milkc1821
skink1823
alcoholics1832
jough1834
alky1844
waipiro1845
medicine1847
stimulant1848
booze1859
tiddly1859
neck oil1860
lotion1864
shrab1867
nose paint1880
fixing1882
wet1894
rabbit1895
shicker1900
jollop1920
mule1920
giggle-water1929
rookus juice1929
River Ouse1931
juice1932
lunatic soup1933
wallop1933
skimish1936
sauce1940
turps1945
grog1946
joy juice1960
1790 H. T. Potter New Dict. Cant & Flash (1795) Lush, drink.
1796 Grose's Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue (ed. 3) Lush, strong beer.
1819 J. H. Vaux New Vocab. Flash Lang. in Memoirs II. 188 Lush, beer or liquor of any kind.
1829 E. Bulwer-Lytton Disowned I. ii. 17 I'll find the lush.
1840 P. Hawker Diary (1893) II. 189 Cheering the workmen with good words and ‘lush’.
1872 E. Lynn Linton Joshua Davidson viii. 160 ‘It's no use, governor’ he said..in his drunken way; ‘work and no lush too hard for me, governor!
b. A drinking bout.
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the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [noun] > drinking-bout
cups1406
drinking?1518
banquet1535
Bacchanal1536
pot-revel1577
compotation1593
rouse1604
Bacchanalia1633
potmealc1639
bout1670
drinking-bout1673
carouse1690
carousal1765
drunk1779
bouse1786
toot1790
set-to1808
spree1811
fuddlea1813
screed1815
bust1834
lush1841
bender1846
bat1848
buster1848
burst1849
soak1851
binge1854
bumming1860
bust-out1861
bum1863
booze1864
drink1865
ran-tan1866
cupping1868
crawl1877
hellbender1877
break-away1885
periodical1886
jag1894
booze-up1897
slopping-up1899
souse1903
pub crawl1915
blind1917
beer-up1919
periodic1920
scoot1924
brannigan1927
rumba1934
boozeroo1943
sesh1943
session1943
piss-up1950
pink-eye1958
binge drinking1964
1841 P. Hawker Diary (1893) II. 214 We ended the day with a lush at Véry's.
1896 A. D. Coleridge Eton in Forties 363 On very special occasions..there would be a ‘lush’, when every mess brewed its punch, or egg-flip.
c. A habitual drunkard, one addicted to drink.
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the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [noun] > one who drinks to excess > alcoholic or habitual drinker
supper?1529
blow-bowl1530
drunkard1530
drunkera1538
blow-bottle1580
tippler1580
potman1589
red nose1591
sot1592
water rat1593
ply-pot1611
potter1632
pothead1639
pisspot1655
pitcher-man1665
whetter1709
inebriate1794
rummy1843
alcoholic1852
oenomaniac1857
dipsomaniac1858
alcoholizer1880
alcoholist1888
potationist1888
lush1890
rumdum1891
rumhound1895
blacklister1904
dipso1923
rumpot1929
alky1944
juice-head1955
alcohol abuser1965
juicer1967
substance abuser1967
jakey1988
1890 J. A. Riis How Other Half Lives (1891) xix. 221 The first long step in crime taken by the half-grown boy..is usually to rob a ‘lush’, i.e., a drunken man who has strayed his way.
1899 G. Ade Doc' Horne i. 1 ‘My uncle didn't think so,’ remarked the lush.
1899 G. Ade Doc' Horne iv. 39 The drinking man, often mentioned as the lush.
1945 J. Steinbeck Cannery Row xxix. 124 I don't like to leave the place without a man. Some lush might get smart and the kids couldn't handle him.
1958 J. Hawkins & W. Hawkins Death Watch (1959) 135 She took a drink now and then, but she wasn't a lush.
1958 Spectator 14 Feb. 210/1 Some high-class Hollywood bitches and lushes.
1972 D. Delman Sudden Death (1973) iii. 94 He's a drunk, ain't he?.. He's a lush. And a lush is a lousy security risk.
Compounds
lush-crib n. = lushing-ken n. at lushing n. Compounds.
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the world > food and drink > drink > drinking > drinking place > [noun] > tavern or public house > low drinking-house
sot's-hof1532
bousing ken1567
fuddling-school1680
sot-bay1707
night-cellar1729
sot-hole1755
lush-ken1790
lush-crib1819
Tom and Jerry shop1824
Tom and Jerry1836
deadfall1837
jerry1851
shoful1851
cribc1865
bucket-shop1875
barrel-house1883
lushing-ken1883
shebang1901
barrel shop1904
blood house1913
smoke joint1931
shypoo1936
smoke-shop1937
dive bar1974
1819 J. H. Vaux New Vocab. Flash Lang. in Memoirs II. 188 Lush-crib or Lush-ken, a public-house, or gin-shop.
1823 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 13 457 On leaving the lush-crib, we can figure them giving fippence to the drawer.
lush-ken n. = lushing-ken n. at lushing n. Compounds.
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the world > food and drink > drink > drinking > drinking place > [noun] > tavern or public house > low drinking-house
sot's-hof1532
bousing ken1567
fuddling-school1680
sot-bay1707
night-cellar1729
sot-hole1755
lush-ken1790
lush-crib1819
Tom and Jerry shop1824
Tom and Jerry1836
deadfall1837
jerry1851
shoful1851
cribc1865
bucket-shop1875
barrel-house1883
lushing-ken1883
shebang1901
barrel shop1904
blood house1913
smoke joint1931
shypoo1936
smoke-shop1937
dive bar1974
1790 H. T. Potter New Dict. Cant & Flash (1795) Lush ken, an alehouse.
lush-head n. a drunkard.
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the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [noun] > one who drinks to excess
houndOE
drinkerc1200
keach-cup?c1225
gulchcupa1250
bollerc1320
taverner1340
ale stake?1515
wine-bibber1535
bibber1536
swill-bowl1542
malt-wormc1550
rinse-pitcher1552
bibblera1556
ale knight1556
tosspot1568
ring-pigger1570
troll-the-bowl1575
malt-bug1577
gossip-pint-pot1580
black pot1582
alehouse knight1583
worrier1584
suck-spigot1585
bezzle1592
bezzlera1593
cup-leech1593
soaker1593
carouser1596
barley-cap1598
swiller1598
rob-pot1599
Philistine1600
sponge1600
wine-knight1601
fill-knaga1605
reel-pot1604
faithful1609
fill-pot1609
bouser1611
spigot-sucker1611
suck-pint1611
whip-can1611
bib-all-night1612
afternoon man1615
potling1616
Bacchanalian1617
bombard1617
pot-shot1617
potisuge1620
trougha1625
tumbrila1625
borachioa1627
pot-leech1630
kill-pota1637
biberon1637
bang-pitcher1639
son of Bacchusc1640
shuffler1642
suck-bottlea1652
swill-pot1653
poter1657
potatora1660
old soaker1665
fuddle cap1666
old toast1668
bubber1669
toper1673
ale-toast1691
Bacchant1699
fuddler1699
swill-belly1699
tickle-pitcher1699
whetter1709
draughtsmanc1720
bender1728
drammer1740
dram-drinker1744
drammist1756
rum-bud1805
siper1805
Bacchanal1812
boozera1819
rum-sucker1819
soak1820
imp of the spigot1821
polyposist1821
wineskin1821
sack-guzzler1823
sitfast1828
swill-flagon1829
cup-man1834
swiper1836
Lushington1851
lushing-man1859
bloat1860
pottle pot1860
tipsificator1873
tipsifier1873
pegger1874
swizzler1876
bibulant1883
toss-cup1883
lusher1895
stew-bum1902
shicker1906
stiff1907
souse1915
booze-hound1926
stumblebum1932
tanker1932
lush-hound1935
lushy1944
lush-head1945
binge drinker1946
pisshead1946
hophead1948
1945 L. Shelly Hepcats Jive Talk Dict. 29/1 Lush head, chronic drinker.
1946 M. Mezzrow & B. Wolfe Really Blues Ded. To all the junkies and lushheads in two-bit scratchpads.
1957 Amer. Speech 32 278 Zoot suit meaning flashy clothes, and lushhead or lush for drunkard are no longer considered good jazz lingo, though they are or were in common nonjazz usage.
lush-hound n. a drunkard.
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the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [noun] > one who drinks to excess
houndOE
drinkerc1200
keach-cup?c1225
gulchcupa1250
bollerc1320
taverner1340
ale stake?1515
wine-bibber1535
bibber1536
swill-bowl1542
malt-wormc1550
rinse-pitcher1552
bibblera1556
ale knight1556
tosspot1568
ring-pigger1570
troll-the-bowl1575
malt-bug1577
gossip-pint-pot1580
black pot1582
alehouse knight1583
worrier1584
suck-spigot1585
bezzle1592
bezzlera1593
cup-leech1593
soaker1593
carouser1596
barley-cap1598
swiller1598
rob-pot1599
Philistine1600
sponge1600
wine-knight1601
fill-knaga1605
reel-pot1604
faithful1609
fill-pot1609
bouser1611
spigot-sucker1611
suck-pint1611
whip-can1611
bib-all-night1612
afternoon man1615
potling1616
Bacchanalian1617
bombard1617
pot-shot1617
potisuge1620
trougha1625
tumbrila1625
borachioa1627
pot-leech1630
kill-pota1637
biberon1637
bang-pitcher1639
son of Bacchusc1640
shuffler1642
suck-bottlea1652
swill-pot1653
poter1657
potatora1660
old soaker1665
fuddle cap1666
old toast1668
bubber1669
toper1673
ale-toast1691
Bacchant1699
fuddler1699
swill-belly1699
tickle-pitcher1699
whetter1709
draughtsmanc1720
bender1728
drammer1740
dram-drinker1744
drammist1756
rum-bud1805
siper1805
Bacchanal1812
boozera1819
rum-sucker1819
soak1820
imp of the spigot1821
polyposist1821
wineskin1821
sack-guzzler1823
sitfast1828
swill-flagon1829
cup-man1834
swiper1836
Lushington1851
lushing-man1859
bloat1860
pottle pot1860
tipsificator1873
tipsifier1873
pegger1874
swizzler1876
bibulant1883
toss-cup1883
lusher1895
stew-bum1902
shicker1906
stiff1907
souse1915
booze-hound1926
stumblebum1932
tanker1932
lush-hound1935
lushy1944
lush-head1945
binge drinker1946
pisshead1946
hophead1948
1935 G. Ingram ‘Stir’ Train ii. 31 He's a ‘lush-hound’ and I knew he must be a coward.
lush-roller n. one who steals from drunks.
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the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > thief > [noun] > from drunk or sleeping person
bug hunter1856
roller1880
jack roller1913
lush-roller1925
lush-worker1930
1925 H. Leverage Dict. Underworld in Flynn's 21 Feb. 869/2 Lush-roller, one who robs drunken men.
lush-worker n. one who steals from drunks.
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the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > thief > [noun] > from drunk or sleeping person
bug hunter1856
roller1880
jack roller1913
lush-roller1925
lush-worker1930
1930 Flynn's 25 Jan. 524/1 In his hip-pocket, where even the lowest kind of lush-worker would have no difficulty in glomming it.
1948 H. L. Mencken Amer. Lang. Suppl. II. 682 A creep-joint or panel-house is one in which patrons are robbed, a roller or mush-worker is a girl who robs them, and a lush-worker is one who specializes in drunks.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1903; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
lushadj.1
/lʌʃ/, U.S. /ləʃ/ 1. Lax, flaccid; soft, tender. Obsolete exc. dialect.
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the world > matter > constitution of matter > softness > [adjective]
lithec888
merroweOE
neshOE
tender?c1225
softa1250
unharda1300
supplec1325
melchc1350
unsad1398
slobbery?a1425
lushc1440
mulch?1440
gentle1555
mellow1577
softly1589
tenerous1598
siddow1601
maumy1728
frush1848
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 317/2 Lusch, or slak, laxus.
1566 T. Blundeville Order curing Horses Dis. f. 6, in Fower Offices Horsemanshippe The fleshe of his lippes and of all his bodye is lushe and feble.
1567 A. Golding tr. Ovid Metamorphosis (new ed.) xv. f. 189v Then greene, and voyd of strength, and lush, and foggye, is the blade.
1587 A. Golding tr. Solinus Worthie Work vii. sig. G. Shrubbes, which so soone as they be in the deepes of the water, are lushe and almost like a grystle to touch.
1815 Monthly Mag. 39 125 (Essex Dialect) Lush, Loose.
1847 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words I. (at cited word) Ground easily turned over is said to be lush.
1898 B. Kirkby Lakeland Words 97 That beef's varra lush an 'tender.
2.
a. Of plants, esp. of grass: Succulent, and luxuriant in growth.The literary currency of this sense (which seems still to exist in s.w. dialects) is due to the recollection of the instance in Shakespeare (quot. a1616). A conjecture of Theobald's, adopted by Johnson and many later editors, substituted ‘lush woodbine’ (for the sake of metre) for ‘luscious woodbine’ in Midsummer Night's Dream ii. i. 251. The conjecture is now discredited, but the passage as emended has had many echoes in 19th cent. literature.
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the world > plants > by growth or development > defined by good growth > [adjective] > flourishing or luxuriant in growth
greeneOE
frimOE
ranka1325
wlonk1398
flourishingc1400
rankish1495
frank?1548
gole1573
abled1576
wanton1579
proud1597
unseared1599
unwithered1599
ramping1607
lusha1616
fulsome1633
luxurious1644
rampant1648
luxuriant1661
lascivious1698
pert1727
unnipped1775
verdurous1820
happy1875
a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) ii. i. 57 How lush and lusty the grasse lookes? View more context for this quotation
1817 J. Keats I stood Tip-toe 31 And let a lush laburnum oversweep them.
1818 J. Keats Endymion i. 47 Overhead, Hung a lush screen of drooping weeds.
1820 P. B. Shelley Question iii. 1 In the warm hedge grew lush eglantine.
1832 Ld. Tennyson Dream Fair Women xxiv, in Poems (new ed.) 128 And at the root thro' lush green grasses burned The red anemone.
1862 W. W. Story Roba di Roma (1864) i. 1 The broken arches of a Roman bridge, nearly buried in the lush growth of weeds, shrubs, and flowers.
1867 Spectator 6 Apr. 384 The lush tropical forests of South America.
1872 W. Black Strange Adventures Phaeton xiii Lush meadows, with the cattle standing deep in the grass.
1876 R. Browning Pacchiarotto & Other Poems 1 And lush and lithe do the creepers clothe Yon wall I watch, with a wealth of green.
1884 Sat. Rev. 19 July 80 Bound together by the lush growth of the bramble.
b. Of a season: Characterized by luxuriance of vegetation.
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the world > plants > by growth or development > defined by good growth > [adjective] > flourishing or luxuriant in growth > of a season
leavy1600
lush1818
1818 J. Keats Endymion i. 5 And, as the year Grows lush in juicy stalks, I'll smoothly steer My little boat [etc.].
1891 T. Hardy Tess of the D'Urbervilles II. xxix. 109 The supernumerary milkers of the lush green season had been dismissed.
c. Luxuriantly covered with.
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1863 E. Bulwer-Lytton Caxtoniana xxii The farmers..allow their hedges to..spread four yards thick, all lush with convolvulus and honeysuckle.
d. transferred and figurative. Also, luxurious; of a woman: sexually attractive.
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the world > relative properties > quantity > sufficient quantity, amount, or degree > abundance > [adjective] > profuse, luxurious, or lush
ranka1325
exuberanta1513
profuse1542
lavish1576
profused1608
redundant1621
luxuriant1625
luxurious1644
lush1851
the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual desire > [adjective] > causing sexual excitement or desire > specifically of a woman
lush1891
sexy1912
slutty1912
foxy1913
leggy1927
floozy?1930
sultry1940
nubile1944
1851 E. B. Browning Casa Guidi Windows i. xxvii. 74 Mow this green lush falseness to the roots.
1891 T. Hardy Tess of the D'Urbervilles II. xxv. 55 The æsthetic, sensuous, pagan pleasure in natural life and lush womanhood.
1939 Punch 8 Nov. 517/1 Business-men from neutral countries should be met with red-carpeted gangways and military bands, and passed in lush motor-cars from one feast to the next.
1942 N. Streatfeild I ordered Table for Six 151 I'd like her to grow up a lush bint.
1958 Economist 8 Nov. 497/2 The egg board's lush new London headquarters.
3. Shakespeare's use has by some writers been misapprehended as referring to colour.
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the world > matter > colour > quality of colour > [adjective] > intense
strongOE
richc1330
finea1387
stark1547
deep1555
full1599
saturate1669
generous1710
lush1744
saturated1791
lushy1821
robust1826
raised1846
high-keyed1879
acid1916
1744 T. Hanmer Wks. Shakespear VI. Gloss. Lush [ Tempest ii. i. 52], of a dark deep full Colour, opposite to pale and faint.
1860 T. Martin tr. Horace Odes 60 The lush rose lingers late.
Compounds
In combinations.
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1818 J. Keats Endymion ii. 55 Listening still, Hour after hour, to each lush-leav'd rill.
1870 W. Morris Earthly Paradise: Pt. IV 52 The lush-cold blue-bells.
Derivatives
ˈlushly adv.
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the world > matter > constitution of matter > softness > [adverb]
neshlyeOE
lushlyc1440
tenderly1604
the world > relative properties > quantity > sufficient quantity, amount, or degree > abundance > [adverb] > profusely, luxuriously, or lushly
lushlyc1440
riotously1466
profusedly1584
profusely1595
luxuriously1605
lavishly1841
the world > plants > by growth or development > defined by good growth > [adverb] > growing well
thriftily1865
lushly1883
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 317/2 Luschly, laxe (K.P. rare).
1883 R. Broughton Belinda III. iv. iv. 231 The long lythrums growing lushly beside them.
ˈlushness n.
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the world > plants > by growth or development > defined by good growth > [noun] > flourishing state or greenness
verdour1447
flourish1594
luxuritya1636
vernancy1669
luxuriancy1712
luxuriance1728
floridity1831
rankness1873
vernality1896
lushness1900
the world > relative properties > quantity > sufficient quantity, amount, or degree > abundance > [noun] > profuseness, luxuriousness, or lushness
richness1564
profuseness1584
prodigality1597
luxury?1611
luxuritya1636
luxuriancy1648
voluptuousness1652
luxuriance1728
luxuriation1839
lavishness1859
luxuriousness1872
overflowingness1883
lushness1900
society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > ornateness > [noun]
flourishing1303
elaborateness1694
floridness1769
floridity1820
lusciousness1839
foliosity1847
ornatenessa1849
lushness1900
1900 Contemp. Rev. Apr. 552 In the lushness of early summer.
1902 Nation (N.Y.) 9 Jan. 39/2 The customary lushness of rhetoric that is rather French than English.
Draft additions March 2007
[Influenced by luscious adj.] slang (chiefly British). Excellent, great; ‘cool’.
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1928 ‘R. Crompton’ Thorn Bush 21 ‘We had Vikings for history. They're lush, Vikings are.’ ‘Lush’ was short for luscious, and was the highest word of praise Chip's vocabulary contained.
1953 K. Horne & R. Murdoch Much Binding in Marsh in New Partridge Dict. Slang (2006) II. 1246/2 ‘Would you like to hear it?’ ‘Oh rather! That would be absolutely lush.’
1991 M. Dibdin Dirty Tricks (1992) 207 I was gross, I was everything that was not awesome, radical, trif, wicked, lush and crucial.
2004 C. Bateman Driving Big Davie i. 2 Joe, the man who..stood for everything that was good and lush about rock'n'roll was pushing up daisies.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1903; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
lushadj.2
/lʌʃ/, U.S. /ləʃ/ slang.
(See quot. 1819.)
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the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [adjective] > drunk
fordrunkenc897
drunkena1050
cup-shottenc1330
drunka1400
inebriate1497
overseenc1500
liquor1509
fou1535
nase?1536
full1554
intoxicate1554
tippled1564
intoxicated1576
pepst1577
overflown1579
whip-cat1582
pottical1586
cup-shota1593
fox-drunk1592
lion-drunk1592
nappy1592
sack-sopped1593
in drink1598
disguiseda1600
drink-drowned1600
daggeda1605
pot-shotten1604
tap-shackled1604
high1607
bumpsy1611
foxed1611
in one's cups1611
liquored1611
love-pot1611
pot-sick1611
whift1611
owl-eyed1613
fapa1616
hota1616
inebriated1615
reeling ripea1616
in one's (or the) pots1618
scratched1622
high-flown?1624
pot-shot1627
temulentive1628
ebrious1629
temulent1629
jug-bitten1630
pot-shaken1630
toxed1635
bene-bowsiea1637
swilled1637
paid1638
soaken1651
temulentious1652
flagonal1653
fuddled1656
cut1673
nazzy1673
concerned1678
whittled1694
suckey1699
well-oiled1701
tippeda1708
tow-row1709
wet1709
swash1711
strut1718
cocked1737
cockeyed1737
jagged1737
moon-eyed1737
rocky1737
soaked1737
soft1737
stewed1737
stiff1737
muckibus1756
groggy1770
muzzeda1788
muzzya1795
slewed1801
lumpy1810
lushy1811
pissed1812
blue1813
lush1819
malty1819
sprung1821
three sheets in the wind1821
obfuscated1822
moppy1823
ripe1823
mixed1825
queer1826
rosined1828
shot in the neck1830
tight1830
rummy1834
inebrious1837
mizzled1840
obflisticated1840
grogged1842
pickled1842
swizzled1843
hit under the wing1844
obfusticatedc1844
ebriate1847
pixilated1848
boozed1850
ploughed1853
squiffy?1855
buffy1858
elephant trunk1859
scammered1859
gassed1863
fly-blown1864
rotten1864
shot1864
ebriose1871
shicker1872
parlatic1877
miraculous1879
under the influence1879
ginned1881
shickered1883
boiled1886
mosy1887
to be loaded for bear(s)1888
squiffeda1890
loaded1890
oversparred1890
sozzled1892
tanked1893
orey-eyed1895
up the (also a) pole1897
woozy1897
toxic1899
polluted1900
lit-up1902
on (also upon) one's ear1903
pie-eyed1903
pifflicated1905
piped1906
spiflicated1906
jingled1908
skimished1908
tin hat1909
canned1910
pipped1911
lit1912
peloothered1914
molo1916
shick1916
zigzag1916
blotto1917
oiled-up1918
stung1919
stunned1919
bottled1922
potted1922
rotto1922
puggled1923
puggle1925
fried1926
crocked1927
fluthered1927
lubricated1927
whiffled1927
liquefied1928
steamed1929
mirackc1930
overshot1931
swacked1932
looped1934
stocious1937
whistled1938
sauced1939
mashed1942
plonked1943
stone1945
juiced1946
buzzed1952
jazzed1955
schnockered1955
honkers1957
skunked1958
bombed1959
zonked1959
bevvied1960
mokus1960
snockered1961
plotzed1962
over the limit1966
the worse for wear1966
wasted1968
wired1970
zoned1971
blasted1972
Brahms and Liszt?1972
funked up1976
trousered1977
motherless1980
tired and emotional1981
ratted1982
rat-arsed1984
wazzed1990
mullered1993
twatted1993
bollocksed1994
lashed1996
1819 J. H. Vaux New Vocab. Flash Lang. in Memoirs II. 188 Lush, or Lushy, drunk.
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lushv.1
/lʌʃ/, U.S. /ləʃ/ Obsolete exc. dialect.† 3. To bring out with a rush. In quot. c1449 figurative. Obsolete.
1. intransitive. To rush, dash; to come down with a rush.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > rate of motion > swiftness > swift movement in specific manner > move swiftly in specific manner [verb (intransitive)] > move swiftly and violently
driveeOE
fallOE
reseOE
routOE
rashOE
swip?c1225
weothec1275
startlec1300
lushc1330
swapc1386
brusha1400
spurna1400
buschc1400
frushc1400
rushc1405
rushle1553
rouse1582
hurl1609
powder1632
slash1689
stave1819
tilt1831
bulge1834
smash1835
storm1837
stream1847
ripsnort1932
slam1973
c1330 Arth. & Merl. 8117 (Kölbing) Hou our wiȝtlinges so hende On þe heþen wiþ swordes losten.
c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. Wace (Rolls) 2977 Mast & sayl, doun hit lusched [v.r. lussed], Cordes, kables, casteles, tofrusched.
a1350 S. Anastasia 114 in Horstm. Altengl. Leg. (1881) 26 Þe Emperours men..Lusshed opon him.
?a1400 Morte Arth. 1459 With lufly launcez one lofte they luyschene to-gedyres.
?a1400 Morte Arth. 2226 He laughte owtte a lange swerde, and luyschede one ffaste.
c1430 J. Lydgate Minor Poems (Percy Soc.) 114 He thought he harde the devylle loushe, He start into a bryer boushe.
1508 Golagros & Gawane (Chepman & Myllar) sig. cv Thai luschit and laid on thai luflyis of lyre.
1566 T. Drant tr. Horace Medicinable Morall sig. Aiijv The bācke hath burste, that down they lush, And so be drente at laste.
1859 A. Whitehead Legends of Westmorland 21 (Cumberld. Gl.) For seun she grows a lusty beck An laykes an loshes ower the steaynes.
2. transitive. To strike.
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the world > movement > impact > striking > strike [verb (transitive)]
swingc725
slayc825
knockc1000
platOE
swengea1225
swipa1225
kill?c1225
girdc1275
hitc1275
befta1300
anhitc1300
frapa1330
lushc1330
reddec1330
takec1330
popc1390
swapa1400
jod?14..
quella1425
suffetc1440
smith1451
nolpc1540
bedunch1567
percuss1575
noba1586
affrap1590
cuff?1611
doda1661
buffa1796
pug1802
nob1811
scud1814
bunt1825
belt1838
duntle1850
punt1886
plunk1888
potch1892
to stick one on1910
clunk1943
zonk1950
c1330 Arth. & Merl. 6875 (Kölbing) Þer was..mani of his hors ylust.
c1330 Arth. & Merl. 7750 Our cristen..out of þe sadel mani lust.
c1330 Arth. & Merl. 9797 Anoþer to þe chine he luȝste.
c1440 York Myst. xxxi. 10 Þus schall I..lusshe all youre lymmys with lasschis.
c1440 York Myst. xlvi. 37 Þei lusshed hym, þei lasshed hym.
14.. MS. Soc. Antiq. 101 lf. 72 (Halliw.) These lions bees lusked and lased on sondir.
c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 6730 He hurlet forth vnhyndly, harmyt full mony, Of þe ledis, þat hym led, luskit to ground.
1890 J. D. Robertson Gloss. Words County of Gloucester Lush, to beat down wasps with a bough.
ΚΠ
c1449 R. Pecock Repressor (1860) 129 Thei kunnen bi herte the textis of Holi Scripture and kunnen lussche hem out thikke at feest, and at ale drinking.
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lushv.2
/lʌʃ/, U.S. /ləʃ/ slang.
1. transitive. To ply with ‘lush’ or drink; to liquor.
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the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [verb (transitive)] > make drunk
fordrenchc1000
indrunkena1300
mazec1390
distemper1491
whittle1530
swill1548
inebriate1555
disguise1560
intoxicatea1566
tipple1566
overtake1577
betipple1581
seethe1599
fuddlec1600
fox1611
wound1613
cupa1616
fuzzle1621
to gild overa1625
sousea1625
tip1637
tosticate1650
drunkify1664
muddle1668
tipsy1673
sop1682
fuzz1685
confound1705
mellowa1761
prime1788
lush1821
soak1826
touch1833
rosin1877
befuddle1887
slew1888
lush1927
wipe1972
1821 Life D. Haggart 18 We had lushed the coachman so neatly, that Barney was obliged to drive.
1838 P. Hawker Diary (1893) II. 142 To lush the Keyhavenites with four gallons of swill.
1888 E. J. Goodman Too Curious xxii To lush me and feed me so as to get on my blind side.
2.
a. intransitive. To drink, indulge in drink. Also to lush it.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > drink > drinking > [verb (intransitive)] > drink intoxicating liquor
to wet (one's) whistle, weasand, mouth, beak, beardc1386
bibc1400
to kiss the cupa1420
drawa1500
refresh1644
mug1653
bub1654
jug1681
whiffle1693
dram1740
wet1783
to suck (also sup) the monkey1785
stimulate1800
lush1811
taste1823
liquor1839
oil1841
paint1853
irrigate1856
nip1858
smile1858
peg1874
gargle1889
shicker1906
stop1924
bevvy1934
the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [verb (intransitive)]
to drink deepa1300
bousec1300
bibc1400
to drink drunk1474
quaff1520
to set cock on the hoopa1535
boll1535
quass1549
tipple1560
swillc1563
carouse1567
guzzle1579
fuddle1588
overdrink1603
to drink the three outs1622
to bouse it1623
sota1639
drifflec1645
to drink like a fisha1653
tope1668
soak1687
to play at swig1688
to soak one's clay (or face)1704
impote1721
rosin1730
dram1740
booze1768
to suck (also sup) the monkey1785
swattle1785
lush1811
to lift up the little finger1812
to lift one's (or the) elbow1823
to crook one's elbow or little finger1825
jollify1830
to bowse up the jib1836
swizzle1847
peg1874
to hit the booze, bottle, jug, pot1889
to tank up1902
sozzle1937
to belt the bottle1941
indulge1953
1811 Lexicon Balatronicum Lush, to drink.
1825 C. M. Westmacott Eng. Spy II. 252 Smoke, take snuff, lush.
1835 P. Hawker Diary (1893) II. 90 The captain and his mate having..‘lushed it’ ashore all night.
1851 H. Mayhew London Labour I. 179/2 I was out of work two or three weeks, and I certainly lushed too much.
b. transitive. To drink.
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the world > food and drink > drink > drinking > [verb (transitive)] > drink intoxicating liquor
pulla1450
to crush a cup of wine1592
to take one's rousea1593
crack1600
whiff1609
bezzle1617
bub1654
tift1722
bibulate1767
lush1838
do1853
lower1895
nip1897
sink1899
1838 C. Dickens Oliver Twist III. xxxviii. 31 Some of the richest sort you ever lushed.
3. With up.
a. intransitive. To get drunk.
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the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [verb (intransitive)] > get drunk
drunkenc1000
to wash one's face in an ale clout1550
to shoe the goose, gosling1566
to catch, hunt the fox1599
to swallow a tavern-token1601
to read Geneva print1608
to whip the cat1622
inebriate1626
to hunt a tavern-fox1635
fox1649
mug1653
to fuddle one's cap or nose1663
to lose one's legs1770
gin1789
stone1858
to beer up1884
slop1899
to get, have, tie a bun on1901
shicker1906
souse1921
lush1926
to cop a reeler1937
to tie one on1951
1926 G. H. Maines & B. Grant Wise-crack Dict. 10/2 Lush up, to get drunk.
b. transitive. To ply with drink, to make (a person) drunk.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [verb (transitive)] > make drunk
fordrenchc1000
indrunkena1300
mazec1390
distemper1491
whittle1530
swill1548
inebriate1555
disguise1560
intoxicatea1566
tipple1566
overtake1577
betipple1581
seethe1599
fuddlec1600
fox1611
wound1613
cupa1616
fuzzle1621
to gild overa1625
sousea1625
tip1637
tosticate1650
drunkify1664
muddle1668
tipsy1673
sop1682
fuzz1685
confound1705
mellowa1761
prime1788
lush1821
soak1826
touch1833
rosin1877
befuddle1887
slew1888
lush1927
wipe1972
1927 K. Nicholson Barker 150 Get lushed up, become intoxicated.
1952 W. R. Burnett Vanity Row (1953) xv. 107 Mr. Hobart got so lushed up... He was spilling drinks down the front of his shirt.
1959 R. Gant World in Jug 39 By that time Andy Mendoza had got himself lushed up and started careening around the set playing a slow drag.
c. transitive. To provide with a luxurious standard of living.
ΚΠ
1927 Punch 25 May 573/1 He at once enclosed a bit of tennis-lawn for them [sc. rabbits] as a manège..and altogether lushed them up to the good things of this world.
1933 P. G. Wodehouse Mulliner Nights ii. 48 If I lush this cat up satisfactorily, shall I not be in a position later on to make a swift touch?
1960 News Chron. 9 Apr. 3 (caption) You are lushed up on the good life and are convinced that we never had it so mechanised and marvellous.
1961 P. G. Wodehouse Ice in Bedroom i. 8 I see you're lushing up the dumb chums.
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