lushy adj.1
1. (also lushey) drunk, tipsy.
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | Lex. Balatronicum n.p.: Lushey. Drunk. The rolling kiddeys hud a spree, and got bloody lushey; the dashing lads went on a party of pleasure, and got very drunk. | |
| ‘Sale of a Wife’ in Curiosities of Street Lit. (1871) 40: Here’s five and fourpence halfpenny for the mason’s lushy bride. | |
| ‘Transport’s Complaint’ in Knowing Chaunter 37: Never again – no never – not never, / Shall we get gallows lushy, or slumber together. | |
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | Mysteries & Miseries of NY 11: ‘Yes, I am Big Lize, you lushy swell!’ cried the woman. | |
| ‘Sarah’s A Blowen’ in Nobby Songster 19: I’ll get lushy my dear, / Upon gin and beer. | |
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | Bell’s Life in Sydney 13 May 2/4: It usually took a quart of rum to make him lushy. | |
| Fast Man 13:1 n.p.: Tableau, indignant inspector-obdurate, and lushey prisoner. | |
| Life in Boston & N.Y. (Boston, MA) 8 Oct. n.p.: For the Most Lushy Way of Committing Suicide [etc]. | |
| Paved with Gold 94: We call her Mother Doo-nuffin. She’s not a bad sort, when she isn’t drunk. And, I say, don’t pay her when she’s lushy, ’cos she’s sure to forget all about it. | |
| ‘Great Agricultural Show’ in Curiosities of Street Lit. (1871) 129: There is some young men got on the spree, / And lushey got as they could be. | |
| Leaves from Diary of Celebrated Burglar 25/2: You all thought that I was too ‘lushy’ for anything, but I’ll be blast if I was. | |
| ‘Publican’s New Sunday Act’ in Victorian Street Ballads (1937) 94: And many a hungry child his belly may fill, / ’cause his lushy old father can get no more swill. | |
| Bulletin (Sydney) 24 Oct. 14/2: The barmaids [...] are still in the grip of the ‘lushy vits,’ so the Friends of T[emperance], not unnaturally, wax wroth. | |
| My Secret Life (1966) II 358: Mabel became more and more expensive, discontented, lushy, and quarrelsome. | |
| Confessions of a Detective 202: He was lushy—put me to bed with a shovel, but that sucker was lushy! | |
| Sun (NY) 9 Apr. 10/7: [List provided by a doctor in the alcoholic ward at Bellevue — terms from ambulance drivers] [...] ginny, google-eyed, lushy, off one’s trolley, slushed. | |
| Derby Dly Teleg. 9 Jan. 2/4: The tests [will] enable magistrates to deal with a well-defined accusation such as [...] raddled [...] lushy [...] obfuscated [...] disguised, groggy. | |
| ‘Origins of the Beat Generation’ Playboy June n.p.: The crazy talkative shining-eyed [...] nut who runs from bar to bar, pad to pad, looking for everybody, shouting, restless, lushy. |
2. drunken.
| Leaves from Diary of Celebrated Burglar 51/1: The ugly pig faces of Jule Tanner and Mother Farley poked out and saluted us with a ‘lushy’: ‘Where the d—l are you fellows off to this morning?’. |
In compounds
a drunkard.
| Vocab. of the Flash Lang. in McLachlan (1964) 252: lushy-cove a drunken man. | |
![[Scot]](/static/img/flags/sco.png "Scotland") | Autobiog. 113: A lushy cove lay upon the sofa. | |
| Bk of Sports 8: Stevenson was by no manner of means a ‘lushy Cove’. | |
| Kentish Gaz. 31 Jan. 3/2: And boskyish we’d roll, / Among the lushy-loving coves. | |
| Swell’s Night Guide 57: schikster: And how about the lushy cove? gonniff: Oh, Sall planted him in the dunniken, pinched his kicksters and his shaker. | |
| (con. 1840s–50s) London Labour and London Poor II 85/1: Jack my pal vos a awful lushy cove. | |
| Life and Adventures of a Cheap Jack 57: He was always a lushy cove. | |
| Morpeth Herald 5 Apr. 6/4: Did that lushy old cove [...] said as I were a bad ’un? ’Cos he’s a liar. |