lush
To drink to excessTo drink (liquor) to excess.
Recorded US: Sylvanmoon, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
» Tom is a lush.
Том — алкаш. — sharptoothed
Том алкаш. — deniko
Том алкоголік. — deniko
CK · Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FRMeaning
1 sensesTo drink (liquor) to excess.
Examples
33 sentencesTom is a lush.
Том алкаш. — deniko
ruТом — алкаш. — sharptoothed
Tom is such a lush.
It was proper lush, that curry.
Карі було просто бомба! — deniko · CC BY 2.0 FR
Those trainers are lush.
Це класні кросівки. — deniko · CC BY 2.0 FR
He's a lush.
Він алкаш. — deniko
ruОн алкаш. — marafon
deEr ist ein Säufer. — megamanenm
Origin
Perhaps a humorous use of the preceding word, or perhaps from Shelta lush (“food and drinkPerhaps a humorous use of the preceding word, or perhaps from Shelta lush (“food and drink”) (the sense "liquor" is older than the sense "drinker"). The Century Dictionary wrote that it was "said to be so called from one Lushington, a once well-known London brewer", but the Online Etymology Dictionary considers lushington (“drinker”) a humorous extension of lush instead.
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Forms
lushes, lushing, lushed, lushedPhrasal verbs
2 phrasal verbsWord family
3 related wordsLessons for this word
3 lessons- A1Present simple — Because it is a verb
- A1Past simple, regular verbs — Because of its past form
- A2Present perfect: introduction — Because of its past participle
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.