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English
Etymology
lush + -y
Adjective
lushy (comparative lushier, superlative lushiest)
- Given to drinking alcohol.
1860, John Diprose, The red, white & blue monster song book:Pipes I blew, on malt I fuddled, / A lushy man! / Till my mind and head got muddled, / Dissipated man!
- Drunk; tipsy.
- Lush; growing abundantly.
1866, The Gentleman's Magazine, and Historical Review:A foreground of lushy meadow-grass, intersected by a streamlet, the light of an afternoon-sun glistening amid the foliage, which occupies two-thirds of the background; […]
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