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Kush vs Lush - What's the difference?

kush | lush |

As nouns the difference between kush and lush

is that kush is marijuana, or a variety of marijuana originating in Afghanistan and northern Pakistan while lush is drunkard, sot, alcoholic.

As proper nouns the difference between kush and lush

is that kush is Cannabis indica, especially strains with high THC content while Lush is {{surname|lang=en}.

As an adjective lush is

lax; slack; limp; flexible.

As a verb lush is

to drink liquor to excess.

kush

English

Noun

(-)
  • Marijuana, or a variety of marijuana originating in Afghanistan and northern Pakistan.
  • * 2013 , Kevin Donovan, “ Rob Ford: Gang members targeted mayor in blackmail plot, police documents say”, in the star.com , Dec. 4:
  • Later in the day, Siyad is heard on a wiretap telling another man that he received “1.5 of kush'” (slang for marijuana) from “Rob Ford’s driver.” Later Siyad tells another person, a woman, that what he received was actually “Rob Ford’s ' kush .”
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    lush

    English

    (wikipedia lush)

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) . Related to (m). More at (l), (l).

    Adjective

    (er)
  • (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
  • 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.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-01
  • , author=Nancy Langston , title=The Fraught History of a Watery World , volume=101, issue=1, page=59 , magazine= citation , passage=European adventurers found themselves within a watery world, a tapestry of streams, channels, wetlands, lakes and lush riparian meadows enriched by floodwaters from the Mississippi River.}}
  • (slang, of food) Luxuriant, delicious.
  • That meal was lush ! We have to go that restaurant again sometime!
  • (British, slang) Beautiful, sexy.
  • Boys with long hair are lush !
  • (British, Canada, slang) Amazing, cool, fantastic, wicked.
  • Your voice is lush , Lucy! I could listen to it all day!

    Etymology 2

    Perhaps a humorous use of the preceding word, or perhaps from (etyl) .An Etymological Dictionary of Modern English (ISBN 0486122867)

    Noun

    (es)
  • (pejorative) Drunkard, sot, alcoholic.
  • Intoxicating liquor.
  • Verb

    (es)
  • To drink liquor to excess.
  • To drink (liquor) to excess.
  • Derived terms
    * lushing * lusher

    References

    Anagrams

    * (l)