Talk:lush
Latest comment: 5 years ago by -sche in topic Adjective meaning 'alcoholic'
Slang
editI'm not sure the usage of lush as defined in Adjective 4 is peculiar to just to Wales. I've heard it used in this context all over southern England. Not so sure about the north and Scotland. 80.42.137.236 15:45, 18 June 2008 (UTC)
Not alcoholic?
editLush means someone who drinks too excess. Alcoholic means someone who is addicted to alcohol. They are not synonyms.
Adjective meaning 'alcoholic'
editI suspect the drinking-related sense can also occur adjectivally ("he's very lush, he drinks all the time"), although I haven't been able to find examples. - -sche (discuss) 18:51, 12 December 2018 (UTC)
- Never come across that. BTW, should it be glossed "US"? I've only seen "lush" for alcoholic in American writing. Equinox ◑ 18:56, 12 December 2018 (UTC)
- "Lush" = "alcohol" seems to have originated as British slang ― it's in Mayhew's Lonndon Labour and Reade's It Is Never Too Late to Mend ― though Partridge says it went obsolete and was later revived. All their modern examples (from the 1940s to 1968) are American ― so,
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? "Lush" = "alcoholic" isn't in older dictionaries I checked (Century and the Imperial Encyclopaedic Dictionary), and Partridge labels it a US sense. (The verb is in the old dictionaries and is labelled "Eng." or "UK", though maybe it too is{{lb|en|now|US}}
?) The modern slang dictionaries I checked do have an adjective, which they all label "UK" even though they all cite the same line from American John Clellon Holmes's 1953 Go, "Two years ago I was real lush and drinking a quart a day." - -sche (discuss) 05:37, 13 December 2018 (UTC)
- "Lush" = "alcohol" seems to have originated as British slang ― it's in Mayhew's Lonndon Labour and Reade's It Is Never Too Late to Mend ― though Partridge says it went obsolete and was later revived. All their modern examples (from the 1940s to 1968) are American ― so,