gushy
/ˈɡʌʃi
/adjective (gushier, gushiest)
Excessively effusive: her gushy manner...
- Early betting has the boys as odds-on favourites to claim the top spot with their gushy ballad, but the girls' effort is gaining fast.
- We mustn't dismiss such words as gushy and sentimental nonsense.
- I feel positively gushy and garrulous this fine day.
Derivatives
gushily
- The veracity of the events depicted in gushily romantic style by the author has not been disputed by Buckingham Palace.
gushiness
- Enid Blyton is also a given, although her own book is mercifully free of the girlish gushiness of both.
- However, these intervals of gushiness are insignificant in the book as a whole.
- A woman of a certain age and of a certain gushiness approached her.
Rhymes
- be at someone's service
- beat someone/thing off
- beat someone to it
- beat someone to the punch
- beat someone up
- beat something down
- beat something out
- beat the bejesus out of
- be at the bottom of
- beat the bounds
- beat the bushes
- beat the clock
- beat the count
- beat the drum for
- be at the end of
- beat the pants off
- be at the races (or in the race)
- beat the rap
- beat the system
- be at the top of one's game
- Beattie, Ann
- beat time
- Beatty, David
- Beatty, Warren
- beat-up