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Definitions
Wiktionary
- v. present participle of lush.
Etymologies
- 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.Origin unknown.
Examples
“You know - lushing it up big time for an evening of laughs. good luck in London xxx”
“After lushing about most of Saturday doing washing and things, I enjoyed a nice dinner with a friend at Lupa Trattoria.”
“That's what he meant by church saloons and religious lushing, then.”
“There's mighty little I don't expect of him -- if only he can cut out the lushing.”
“To lessen this evil, the detectives one night quietly made visits to some half a dozen "lushing cribs," as they are called, in Eighth and Fourteenth Streets, and seized about thirty noted thieves, burglars, and garroters, and locked them up for safe - keeping.”
“Suppose Bess were to address you thus: 'Well you parish bull prig, are you for lushing jackey, or pattering in the hum box?”
“They have all been arrested for lush working, or "lushing," since 2006.”
“Which is healthier: the Prince, as privy councillor, getting out his fountain pen, or a billionaire lushing up Peter Mandelson on a yacht?”
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“It’s only because the financial and security situation in the world became so dire, and there is so much $lushing around in debt ceiling vault we have no audit of that US Treasuries are negative yield and the US$ magically turned around on January 1st, the last day offshore secret Swiss bank account holders had to fess up and bring their lucre home to Jesus, duty free.”
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