Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Tipsy or under the influence of intoxicating liquor.
- Luxuriant; tender; soft. Also used figuratively.
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Examples
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Those lushy Luxemburgers, those grog-swilling Granite Staters!
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Fun, leaden, lushy-painted lifeless fun stuff, but fun stuff nonetheless…
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He played a total jerk in “the people vs. larry flynt” but then got total redemption as Zefram Cochrane, the lushy yet discover of Warp speed in Star Trek 8 a movie that proved the inventor of the warp drive had a taste for women of color and tequila, sometimes at the same time.
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The people on the wide sidewalks were an odd mix of leggy models and lushy businessmen.
Miss Misery Andy Greenwald 2006
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The people on the wide sidewalks were an odd mix of leggy models and lushy businessmen.
Miss Misery Andy Greenwald 2006
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'Come,' said Bagswell, 'come, after such an adventure, if there is one drop of any thing fit to drink in this town, we'll all go and get lushy.'
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 6, June, 1862 Devoted To Literature and National Policy Various
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Every week he wrote lushy "poetry" for the journal, about his newest conquest.
Sketches New And Old Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 1922
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Every week he wrote lushy "poetry" for the journal, about his newest conquest.
Sketches New and Old, Part 2. Mark Twain 1872
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Every week he wrote lushy "poetry" for the journal, about his newest conquest.
Sketches New and Old Mark Twain 1872
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'It was half-past four when I got to Somers Town, and then I was so uncommon lushy, that I couldn't find the place where the latch-key went in, and was obliged to knock up the old' ooman.
The Pickwick Papers Charles Dickens 1841
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