lushy
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lushy (comparative lushier, superlative lushiest)
- Given to drinking alcohol.
- 1860, John Diprose, The red, white & blue monster song book:
- Pipes I blew, on malt I fuddled, / A lushy man! / Till my mind and head got muddled, / Dissipated man!
- Drunk; tipsy.
- Lush; growing abundantly.
- 1866, The Gentleman's Magazine, and Historical Review:
- A foreground of lushy meadow-grass, intersected by a streamlet, the light of an afternoon-sun glistening amid the foliage, which occupies two-thirds of the background; […]