luscious
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luscious
- /ˈlʌʃəs/
Rhymes with -ʌʃəs
Where it comes from
From earlier lushious, lussyouse (“luscious, richly sweet, delicious”), a corruption of lustious, from lusty (“pleasant, delicious”) + -ous. Shakespeare uses both lush (short for lushious) and lusty in the same sense: "How lush and lusty the grass looks" (The Tempest ii. I.52).
An alternative etymology connects luscious to a Middle English term: lucius, an alteration of licious, believed to be a shortening of delicious.
adjective more luscious · most luscious · lushious
- Sweet and pleasant; delicious; juicy, succulent. Her lips were like two luscious beefsteaks.
- Sexually appealing; seductive. With one hand he gently disclosed the lips of that luscious mouth of nature.
- Obscene. Hitherto I had been indebted only to the girls of the house for the corruption of my innocence: their luscious talk, in which modesty was far from respected.
