luscious
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 10
- Words With Friends
- 14
- Letters
- 8
Definition of luscious
3 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
adj
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Sweet and pleasant; delicious; juicy, succulent.
“Her lips were like two luscious beefsteaks.”
“There were lovely patches of greensward all about, with stately trees bearing rich and luscious fruits.”
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adj
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Sweet and pleasant; delicious; juicy, succulent.
“Her lips were like two luscious beefsteaks.”
“There were lovely patches of greensward all about, with stately trees bearing rich and luscious fruits.”
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Sexually appealing; seductive.
“With one hand he gently disclosed the lips of that luscious mouth of nature.”
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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.”
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Etymology
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…
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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.
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