Mellow; soft; (of ground or soil) easily turned; fertile.
Drunk; inebriated.
“’E generally goes down there when ’e’s got ’is skinful, beggin’ your pardon, sir, an’ they do say that the more lush — in-he-briated ’e is, the more fish ’e catches.”
A drunkard, sot, alcoholic.
Overaged and lecherous lushes at office parties profaning the text, music, and meaning of Christmas carols.
A surname.
From Middle English lusch (“slack, relaxed, limp, loose”), from Old English *lysċ, lesċ (“slack; limp”), from Proto-West Germanic *laskw, from Proto-Germanic *laskwaz (“weak, false, feeble”), from Pro...
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Intoxicating liquor.
I took my flogging like a stone. If I had sung, some of the convicts would have given me some lush with a locust in it (laudanum hocussing), and when I was asleep would have given me a crack on the head that would have laid me straight.