Lushed vs Ushed - What's the difference?
lushed | ushed |
(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
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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.
(ush)
(colloquial, rare, transitive, and, intransitive) To usher: to perform the action of an usher: to escort.
* 2000 , Jonathan Pearce, John-Browne's Body and Sole: A Semester of Life , BalonaBooks (2006), ISBN 978-0-9765479-6-9, page 142:
As verbs the difference between lushed and ushed
is that lushed is past tense of lush while ushed is past tense of ush.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!
Etymology 2
Perhaps a humorous use of the preceding word, or perhaps from (etyl) .An Etymological Dictionary of Modern English (ISBN 0486122867)Noun
(es)Verb
(es)Derived terms
* lushing * lusherReferences
Anagrams
* (l)ushed
English
Verb
(head)ush
English
Verb
(es)- And she is Mrs. Freundlich’s dear friend, so old Mark, who was acting as usher, ushed her and Mrs. Preene to seats right up in front next to Claire so Mrs. Shaw could scope out everything I did.