lush

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Keep up dat eastern european gangta luv goin 'for the lush, the Rush, the big' ole billowing bale of bovine bowel by-product!

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  1. adjective Having or characterized by luxuriant vegetation.
  2. adjective Abundant; plentiful. See Synonyms at profuse.
  3. adjective Extremely productive; thriving.

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luxuriant ·  verdant ·  tropical ·  fragrant ·  dense ·  grassy ·  sunny ·  fertile ·  luscious ·  undulate ·  lovely ·  sparse
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  1. Middle English, relaxed, soft, probably alteration of lache, loose, weak, from Old French lasche, soft, succulent, from laschier, to loosen, from Late Latin laxicāre, to become shaky, frequentative of Latin laxāre, to open, relax, from laxus, loose; see lax.
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  1. from Middle English lusch, lax, slack; cf. lash ; cf. also dial. lishecy, flexible, limber. In def. 3, perhaps from lushious, the older spelling of luscious, analyzed as if from lush + -ious.
  2. from Middle English *lushen, luschen, lussen, luyschen, rush violently.
  3. Origin uncertain; said to be so called from one Lushington, a once well-known London brewer: see lushington. Cf. Old French vin lousche, thick or unsettled wine (Cotgrave); lousche, dull-sighted, purblind. from Latin luscus, one-eyed, purblind: see Luscinia.
  4. from lush , n.
 

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