Associations to the word «Lush»

Wiktionary

LUSH, adjective. (obsolete) Lax; slack; limp; flexible.
LUSH, adjective. (dialectal) Mellow; soft; (of ground or soil) easily turned.
LUSH, adjective. (of vegetation) Dense, teeming with life.
LUSH, adjective. (slang) (of food) Luxuriant, delicious.
LUSH, adjective. (British) (slang) Beautiful, sexy.
LUSH, adjective. (British) (Canada) (slang) Amazing, cool, fantastic, wicked.
LUSH, noun. (slang) (pejorative) Drunkard, sot, alcoholic.
LUSH, noun. (slang) Intoxicating liquor.
LUSH, verb. (intransitive) To drink liquor to excess.
LUSH, verb. (transitive) To drink (liquor) to excess.
LUSH, proper noun. A surname​.

Dictionary definition

LUSH, noun. A person who drinks alcohol to excess habitually.
LUSH, adjective. Produced or growing in extreme abundance; "their riotous blooming".
LUSH, adjective. Characterized by extravagance and profusion; "a lavish buffet"; "a lucullan feast".
LUSH, adjective. Full of juice; "lush fruits"; "succulent roast beef"; "succulent plants with thick fleshy leaves".

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats