Flushed vs Lushed - What's the difference?
flushed | lushed |
Red in the face because of embarrassment, exertion, etc.
* 1922 , (Virginia Woolf), (w, Jacob's Room) Chapter 1
(flush)
(lush)
(obsolete) Lax; slack; limp; flexible.
(dialectal) Mellow; soft; (of ground or soil) easily turned.
(of vegetation) Dense, teeming with life.
* 2006 , Stefani Jackenthal, New York Times
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-01
, author=Nancy Langston
, title=The Fraught History of a Watery World
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(slang, of food) Luxuriant, delicious.
(British, slang) Beautiful, sexy.
(British, Canada, slang) Amazing, cool, fantastic, wicked.
(pejorative) Drunkard, sot, alcoholic.
Intoxicating liquor.
To drink liquor to excess.
To drink (liquor) to excess.
As verbs the difference between flushed and lushed
is that flushed is past tense of flush while lushed is past tense of lush.As an adjective flushed
is red in the face because of embarrassment, exertion, etc.flushed
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Archer lay spread out, with one arm striking across the pillow. He was flushed ; and when the heavy curtain blew out a little he turned and half-opened his eyes.
Synonyms
* blushing * red * red-facedVerb
(head)lushed
English
Verb
(head)lush
English
(wikipedia lush)Etymology 1
From (etyl) . Related to (m). More at (l), (l).Adjective
(er)- Some of the world’s best rain forest and volcanic hiking can be found within the lush canopied Caribbean trail systems. Chock-full of waterfalls and hot springs, bright-colored birds and howling monkeys, flora-lined trails cut through thick, fragrant forests and up cloud-covered mountains.
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- That meal was lush ! We have to go that restaurant again sometime!
- Boys with long hair are lush !
- Your voice is lush , Lucy! I could listen to it all day!