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  1. intransitive verb To flow forth suddenly in great volume: water gushing from a hydrant.
  2. intransitive verb To emit a sudden and abundant flow, as of tears.
  3. intransitive verb To make an excessive display of sentiment or enthusiasm: gushed over the baby.
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  1. Middle English gushen, perhaps of Scandinavian origin; see gheu- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Early modern English also gowshe; from Middle English guschen, gush; (1) prob. of Old Low German origin, from Old Dutch guysen, flow out with a gurgling noise, gush, = Old Flemish freq. gusselen, gosselen, pour out, spill (Kilian), =Low German gusen, gissen, and freq. gieseln, later prob. German dial. gausen, and freq. giuseln, pour out; secondary forms, with formative -s, of Dutch gieten= Old Saxon giotan= OFries. giata, iata = Anglo-Saxon geótan (preterit geát, plural guton, past participle goten), transitive pour, pour out, shed, cast, found, intransitive flow, stream, Middle English ʒeten, yeten, Scots yet, yit, pour, etc. (later ult. English deriv. gut and ingot, q. v.), = Old High German giozan, Middle High German giezen, German giessen = Swedish gjuta = Old Danish gjude, Danish gyde, pour, = Icelandic gjōta, cast, drop one's young (of an animal), = Goth, giutan, pour, = Latin fundere, past participle fusus, pour (later ult. English found and fuse, q. v.); allied to Greek χεῖν, pour (later ult. English chyle, chyme). (2) Less prob. of Scandinavian origin, from Icelandic gusa, gush, spirt out, or rather (gusa being a secondary weak verb, without examples in Cleasby and Vigfusson, and presumably modern) from its primitive gjōsa (preterit gauss, plural gusu, past participle gosinn), gush, break out, as a furnace, volcano, and the like; hence geysa, rush furiously, gush (later Geysir, English geyser, q. v.), gustr, a gust, English gust (cf. also (?) Swedish dial. gasa, blow, puff, reek); perhaps = Latin haurire, draw water, also spill, shed (see exhaust). Whether Icelandic gjōsa, gush, is related to the fore-mentioned gjōta, cast, is doubtful.
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