lushy

English

Etymology

lush +‎ -y

Adjective

lushy (comparative lushier, superlative lushiest)

  1. 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!
  2. Drunk; tipsy.
  3. 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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