Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Marked by excessive displays of sentiment or enthusiasm.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Displaying or characterized by gush; effusively sentimental: as, a gushy description.
Wiktionary
- adj. Characteristic of a speech conducted in an effusive manner, and often pronounced with exceeding emotion.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. extravagantly demonstrative; gushing{2}.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. extravagantly demonstrative
Examples
“He has produced an evenly written text, not at all "gushy" - there is even a smattering of judicious criticism.”
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
“The Magicians and Mrs Quent by Galen Beckett thats actually the "gushy" short version of Memory's review.”
“But for the most part, it's just this really, really wet, kind of gushy snow.”
“Aaron's essays are often a little 'gushy' for my taste, but I liked this one quite a bit.”
“Don't be "gushy" and kiddish, but just facts and businesslike about everything”
“On Mother's Day I received a "gushy" card, which I returned with a note saying how much I would have loved the card - if I had felt it was sincere.”
“However, even if you believe this one is worthy but too "gushy," it would have to be explained why other articles are entitled to highlight their subjects achievements.”
“Don't apologize -- you weren't anywhere near "gushy".”
“Since it takes a certain amount of work and self-review to do a journal strip, they're more thoughtful and not usually as "gushy" as someone spilling their thoughts out in text.”
“It was very nicely done, and I was sold on the "gushy" music, too!”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘gushy’.
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What a -Y does to an otherwise common, dull word
zany, waxy, wavy, arty, chewy, bony, boxy, cozy, nosy, foxy, wiry, junky and 321 more...
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A whooshing of turpentine up my nostrils
Descriptors to use at your next wine-tasting
sawdusty, barnyardy, igneous, graphitic, impolitic, noisome, eldritch, lovecraftian, beanfeastish, spidery, impious, daft and 63 more...
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the hotlist
short, sweet, epic, catchy, sassy, sexy & sizzling.
( personal list, randomness )
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http://www.wordnik.com/lists/...zing, epic, win, fail, hot, warp, times, clip, onyx, wonky, pwn, leet and 1493 more...
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chevrion's list
let it unfold...and grow along.
obstreperous, capsize, fracas, plaintiff, yes, misericordia, dilettante, oscillation, concatenation, gushy
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