Flusher vs Plusher - What's the difference?
flusher | plusher |
The mechanical part of a toilet that causes the toilet bowl's contents to be sucked down the drain.
Agent noun of flush: one who flushes.
(US, politics) A worker for a political campaign who persuades voters to vote on Election Day
*{{quote-book, 1996, Larry J. Sabato & Glenn R. Simpson, Dirty Little Secrets: The Persistence of Corruption in American Politics
, passage=Each flusher is typically paid $20 to $50. Fleets of cars, buses, and other vehicles are also at the ready to ferry voters to and from the polls.}}
English agent nouns
(plush)
(UK) Very extravagant.
(UK) Very expensive, or appearing expensive.
(of a man-made object) Having a soft, fluffy exterior.
A textile fabric with a nap or shag on one side, longer and softer than the nap of velvet.
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=10
, passage=Mr. Cooke had had a sloop?yacht built at Far Harbor, the completion of which had been delayed, and which was but just delivered. […] The Maria had a cabin, which was finished in hard wood and yellow plush , and accommodations for keeping things cold.}}
* 1922 , (Margery Williams), (The Velveteen Rabbit)
A (type of) child's toy, usually an animal, filled with soft material.
* 2002 , Billboard (volume 114, number 9, 2 March 2002, page 70)
* 2008 , Lionel Birglen, Thierry Laliberté, Clément M. Gosselin, Underactuated Robotic Hands (page 94)
* 2011 , Bob Sehlinger, Menasha Ridge, Len Testa, The Unofficial Guide Walt Disney World 2012 (page 759)
As a noun flusher
is the mechanical part of a toilet that causes the toilet bowl's contents to be sucked down the drain.As an adjective plusher is
comparative of plush.flusher
English
Noun
(en noun)citation
plusher
English
Adjective
(head)plush
English
Adjective
(er)- They lived in a plush apartment complex.
- This plush toy is so cute and soft - I want it!
Noun
- That night the Boy slept in a different bedroom, and he had a new bunny to sleep with him. It was a splendid bunny, all white plush with real glass eyes, but the Boy was too excited to care very much about it.
- When Play Along — the holder of the Care Bears master toy license — placed Care Bears plushes in Spencer Gifts last year, tweens and teenage girls bought the toys.
- For a small fee, the player can control a crane equipped with a gripper to pick a gift, usually a plush or a small toy, and has to drop it in a place where he/she can grab it.
- L.A. Prop Cinema Storage, full of kids' clothing (mostly for girls), PJs, and lots of toys and plushes (there's also a substantial infant area).