lushy
1 Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of lushy1
First recorded in 1815–25; lush 1 + -y 1
Origin of lushy2
Example Sentences
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Now, only think of coming into a place like this here, reg’lar lushy, and with diamond studs and gold watches and chains shining out in the light, and asking poor starving men to steal them!”
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"O burn me, and must we wait here, shivering in the darkness with a curse on't and me wet to the bone——" "Content ye, my lushy cove, the others aren't far."
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Down the road which asters tangle, Thro' the gap where green-briar twines, By the path where dry leaves dangle Sere from the ivy vines We go—by sedgy fallows And along the stifled brook, Till it stops in lushy mallows Just at the bridge's crook.
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Beyond a doubt, in `Lushy Luke's' belief, a Bunyip had taken temporary lodgings outside the town.
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Following the sound, I started across the unmown field, "Through the bending grasses, Tall and lushy green, All alive with tiny things, Stirring feet and whirring wings Just an instant seen," and soon came in sight of the nest near the topmost twig of an old apple-tree.
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