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▪ I. † lush, n.1 Obs.
[f. lush v.1]
A stroke, blow.
a1400Morte Arth. 3848 With the lussche of the launce he lyghte one hys schuldyrs. c1440York Myst. xxviii. 271 Here with a lusshe, lordayne, I schalle þe allowe. 1887Jamieson's Dict. Suppl., Lush, a stroke, blow, cut, as with a wand or cane.
▪ II. lush, n.2 slang.|lʌʃ|
[Of obscure origin: perh. suggested by lush a.]
1. a. Liquor, drink.
1790Potter Dict. Cant. (1795), Lush, drink. 1796Grose's Dict. Vulg. Tongue, Lush, strong beer. 1812J. H. Vaux Flash Dict., Lush, beer or liquor of any kind. 1829Lytton Disowned 5 I'll find the lush. 1840P. Hawker Diary (1893) II. 189 Cheering the workmen with good words and ‘lush’. 1872Mrs. E. Lynn Linton J. 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.
1841P. Hawker Diary (1893) II. 214 We ended the day with a lush at Véry's. 1896A. 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.
1890J. 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. 1899Ade Doc Horne i. 1 ‘My uncle didn't think so,’ remarked the lush. Ibid. iv. 39 The drinking man, often mentioned as the lush. 1945J. 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. 1958J. & W. Hawkins Death Watch (1959) 135 She took a drink now and then, but she wasn't a lush. 1958Spectator 14 Feb. 210/1 Some high-class Hollywood bitches and lushes. 1972D. 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.
2. Comb.: lush-crib, -ken, = lushing-ken (see lushing vbl. n.); lush-head, -hound, a drunkard; lush-roller, -worker, one who steals from drunks.
1790Potter Dict. Cant. (1795), Lush ken, an alehouse. 1812J. H. Vaux Flash Dict., Lush-crib or Lush-ken, a public-house, or gin-shop. 1823Blackw. Mag. XIII. 457 On leaving the lush-crib, we can figure them giving fippence to the drawer. 1925H. Leverage in Flynn's IV. 869/2 Lush-roller, one who robs drunken men. 1930Lush-worker [see glom v.]. 1935G. Ingram ‘Stir’ Train ii. 31 He's a ‘lush-hound’ and I knew he must be a coward. 1945L. Shelly Jive Talk Dict. 29/1 Lush head, chronic drinker. 1946Mezzrow & Wolfe Really Blues (1957) Dedication, To all the junkies and lushheads in two-bit scratchpads. 1948Mencken 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. 1957Amer. Speech XXXII. 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.
▪ III. lush, a.1|lʌʃ|
Also 5 lusch, 6 lushe.
[? Onomatopœic alteration of lash a. 3.]
1. Lax, flaccid; soft, tender. Obs. exc. dial.
c1440Promp. Parv. 317/2 Lusch, or slak, laxus. 1567Golding Ovid's Met. xv. 189 b, Then greene, and voyd of strength, and lush, and foggye, is the blade. 1580Blundevil Curing Horses v. 4 b, The flesh of his lips and of all his bodie is lush and feeble. 1587Golding tr. Solinus vii. G, Shrubbes, which so soone as they be in the deepes of the water, are lushe and almost like a grystle to touch. 1815Monthly Mag. XXXIX. 125 (Essex Dialect), Lush, Loose. 1847Halliwell s.v., Ground easily turned over is said to be lush. 1898B. Kirkby Lakeland Wds. (E.D.D.), That beef's varra lush and 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 Shakes. (quot. 1610). A conjecture of Theobald's, adopted by Johnson and many later editors, substituted ‘lush woodbine’ (metri gr.) for ‘luscious woodbine’ in Mids. N. ii. i. 251. The conjecture is now discredited, but the passage as emended has had many echoes in 19th c. literature.
1610Shakes. Temp. ii. i. 52 How lush and lusty the grasse lookes? 1817Keats ‘I stood tiptoe’ 31 And let a lush laburnum oversweep them. 1818― Endym. i. 941 Overhead, Hung a lush screen of drooping weeds. 1820Shelley Question iii. 1 In the warm hedge grew lush eglantine. 1832Tennyson Dream Fair Women xviii, And at the root thro' lush green grasses burn'd The red anemone. 1862W. W. Story Roba di R. i. (1864) 1 The broken arches of a Roman bridge, nearly buried in the lush growth of weeds, shrubs, and flowers. 1867Spectator 6 Apr. 384 The lush tropical forests of South America. 1872Black Adv. Phaeton xiii, Lush meadows, with the cattle standing deep in the grass. 1876Browning Pacchiarotto Prol. ii, And lush and lithe do the creepers clothe Yon wall I watch, with a wealth of green. 1884Sat. Rev. 19 July 80 Bound together by the lush growth of the bramble.
b. Of a season: Characterized by luxuriance of vegetation.
1818Keats Endym. i. 46 And, as the year Grows lush in juicy stalks, I'll smoothly steer My little boat [etc.]. 1891T. Hardy Tess II. 109 The supernumerary milkers of the lush green season had been dismissed.
c. Luxuriantly covered with.
1863Lytton Caxtoniana xxii, The farmers..allow their hedges to..spread four yards thick, all lush with convolvulus and honeysuckle.
d. transf. and fig. Also, luxurious; of a woman: sexually attractive.
1851Mrs. Browning Casa Guidi Wind. i. 1088 Mow this green lush falseness to the roots. 1891T. Hardy Tess II. 55 The æsthetic, sensuous, pagan pleasure in natural life and lush womanhood. 1939Punch 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[see bint n.2]. 1958Economist 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.
1744Shaks. Wks. (ed. Hanmer) VI. Gloss., Lush [Temp. ii. i. 52], of a dark deep full Colour, opposite to pale and faint. 1860T. Martin Horace 60 The lush rose lingers late.
4. Comb.
1818Keats Endym. ii. 52 Listening still, Hour after hour, to each lush-leaved rill. 1870Morris Earthly Par. iv. 52 The lush-cold blue-bells.
Hence ˈlushly adv., ˈlushness.
c1440Promp. Parv. 317/2 Luschly, laxe (K.P. rare). 1883R. Broughton Belinda III. iv. iv. 231 The long lythrums growing lushly beside them. 1900Contemp. Rev. Apr. 552 In the lushness of early summer. 1902Nation (N.Y.) 9 Jan. 39/2 The customary lushness of rhetoric that is rather French than English.
▸ slang (chiefly Brit.). Excellent, great; ‘cool’.
1953K. 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.’ 1991M. Dibdin Dirty Tricks (1992) 207, I was gross, I was everything that was not awesome, radical, trif, wicked, lush and crucial. 2004C. 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.
▪ IV. lush, a.2 slang.|lʌʃ|
(See quot.)
1812J. H. Vaux Flash Dict., Lush, or Lushy, drunk.
▪ V. lush, v.1 Obs. exc. dial.
Forms: 4 lusshe, luysche, lusse, lusche, (pa. tense loste, luste), 5 lusche, loushe, lusk, 9 losh, 6– lush.
[? Echoic variant of lash v.]
1. intr. To rush, dash; to come down with a rush.
c1330Arth. & Merl. 8117 (Kölbing) Hou our wiȝtlinges so hende On þe heþen wiþ swordes losten. c1330R. Brunne Chron. Wace (Rolls) 2977 Mast & sayl, doun hit lusched [v.r. lussed], Cordes, kables, casteles, tofrusched. a1350S. Anastasia 114 in Horstm. Altengl. Leg. (1881) 26 Þe Emperours men..Lusshed opon him. a1400Morte Arth. 1459 With lufly launcez one lofte they luyschene to-gedyres. Ibid. 2226 He laughte owtte a lange swerde, and luyschede one ffaste. c1430Lydg. Min. Poems (Percy Soc.) 114 He thought he harde the devylle loushe, He start into a bryer boushe. c1470Golagros & Gaw. 1003 Thai luschit and laid on, thai luflyis of lyre. 1566Drant Horace A iij, The bancke hath burst, that down they lush, and so be drente at laste. 18..Whitehead Leg. 19 (Cumberld. Gl.) For seun she grows a lusty beck An layks an loshes ower the steaynes.
2. trans. To strike.
c1330Arth. & Merl. 6875 (Kölbing) Þer was..mani of his hors ylust. Ibid. 7750 Our cristen..out of þe sadel mani lust. Ibid. 9797 Anoþer to þe chine he luȝste. c1400Destr. Troy 6730 He hurlet forth vnhyndly, harmyt full mony, Of þe ledis, þat hym led, luskit to ground. c1440York Myst. xxxi. 10 Þus schall I..lusshe all youre lymmys with lasschis. Ibid. xlvi. 37 Þei lusshed hym, þei lasshed hym. 14..MS. Soc. Antiq. 101 lf. 72 (Halliw.) These lions bees lusked and lased on sondir. 1890Glouc. Gloss., Lush, to beat down wasps with a bough.
†3. To bring out with a rush. In quot. fig. Obs.
c1449Pecock Repr. i. xx. 129 Thei kunnen bi herte the textis of Holi Scripture and kunnen lussche hem out thikke at feest, and at ale drinking.
▪ VI. lush, v.2 slang.|lʌʃ|
[f. lush n.2]
1. trans. To ply with ‘lush’ or drink; to liquor.
1821Life D. Haggart 18 We had lushed the coachman so neatly, that Barney was obliged to drive. 1838P. Hawker Diary (1893) II. 142 To lush the Keyhavenites with four gallons of swill. 1888E. J. Goodman Too Curious xxii, To lush me and feed me so as to get on my blind side.
2. a. intr. To drink, indulge in drink. Also to lush it.
1811Lex. Balatronicum, Lush, to drink. 1825C. M. Westmacott Eng. Spy II. 252 Smoke, take snuff, lush. 1835P. Hawker Diary (1893) II. 90 The captain and his mate having..‘lushed it’ ashore all night. 1851–61Mayhew Lond. Labour (1864) I. 187/2, I was out of work two or three weeks, and I certainly lushed too much.
b. trans. To drink.
1838Dickens O. Twist xxxix, Some of the richest sort you ever lushed.
3. With up.
a. intr. To get drunk.
b. trans. To ply with drink, to make (a person) drunk.
c. trans. To provide with a luxurious standard of living.
1926Maines & Grant Wise-Crack Dict. 10/2 Lush up, to get drunk. 1927K. Nicholson Barker 150 Get lushed up, become intoxicated. 1927Punch 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. 1933Wodehouse 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? 1952W. R. Burnett Vanity Row (1953) xv. 107 Mr. Hobart got so lushed up... He was spilling drinks down the front of his shirt. 1959R. 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. 1960News 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. 1961Wodehouse Ice in Bedroom i. 8, I see you're lushing up the dumb chums. |