The word 'Lush' :shudders:

[User2005103]

AIBU to really dislike that word and be sick of everyone (mainly chavvy people, sorry...:gets ready for backlash:) banding it around on FB all the time?!

Maybe I'm just unlucky and it's only people I am friends with, but it seems to be the only adjective a lot of people on my FB can use nowadays.

It's always 'Lush meal out for our anniversary' 'Lush day out with the kiddies today' 'Look at my new dog, isn't he Lush'

Arghhh, I just hate it! Also on the list at the moment is 'Bubba' 'Kiddies' and 'Little Man'

Yes, I probably am BU!

From Gloucestershire and grew up saying lush. Couldn't stop saying or if I tried 😂 Also is it just me that gets annoyed when youngsters like my 16 yr old sister actually say the word 'lol' instead of laughing!

Getting scrammed by the cat when you try to smooth it is a hazard.

OH ( who is not from these parts) has just commented on the "ideal of the week" certificate his work place in Bristol issues!

lush1
— adjective, lush·er, lush·est.
1. (of vegetation, plants, grasses, etc.) luxuriant; succulent; tender and juicy.
2. characterized by luxuriant vegetation: a lush valley.
3. characterized by luxuriousness, opulence, etc.: the lush surroundings of his home.

Origin: 1400–50; late Middle English lusch slack; akin to Old English lysu bad, lēas lax, Middle Low German lasch slack, Old Norse lǫskr weak, Gothic lasiws weak
— Related forms 
lush·ly, adverb 
lush·ness, noun
'Owever, being as 'ow I lives in Brizzle, I thinks that I should make a point of sayin' that that there definition is a roight gud 'un...

My Welsh mates were using this circa 2000!!

Oh, and Bookridden, I'm actually from south Devon and we called them pumps down there too. Completely missed the daps thing until my DCs started at school.

I spent quite a few puzzled minutes at the welcome to new parents meeting wondering what the fuck we were being asked to provide...

Not as toe-curling as grown women describing things as 'scrummy'
(which , interestingly, auto-corrects to acrimony)

I'm Welsh and I say lush far too much. I can't help it, it just comes out. I promise I'm not a chav!

Words like bubbas, bubbz, hubbz and any variation make me cringe though. Oh and holibobs.

Oh daps is a good one. Also my husband was very confused the first time I mentioned the ridiculously coloured togs that footballers wear ("what the fuck are togs?" I think were the exact words...)

Hubby is outside with little man while I have scrummy huggles with the bubba. Lush!

You're welcome

I don't mind little man. The others can bog off.

Daps, not plimsolls as my DH calls them.

I'm from Bristol too! Alright me old babbers. Gert lush day, innit, mind. Where you going to? I'm 'ere smoovin me cat. He's gert lush, he is. Innit, mind. Or summat.

I'm in Bristol too and it's normal dialect here.

I HATE people saying Lush too!
Urgh it's horrible
It makes me want to punch them hard in the face

YABU.

The word lush is lush. In South Wales say it with a Stacey/Nessa accent and it becomes even more lush. If you're from Bristol the addition of "gert" lends it a West Country twist.

In fact I've got some lush new daps. I loves them I does.

YABU.

Chuck ee in the stingers, I say.

It's 'The mister' that really annoys me. As in, "just having a cheeky vino snuggled up with the mister"

You lost me at mainly chavvy people, sorry...

Are you apologising to the 'chavvy people'?

I love saying gurt lush. I'm from London but my family are West Country I say it to myself on the way down there to key myself back into the right way of speaking. That and oroight my loverrrr.

Valleys dweller here- am immune to it!

Oh yes, we absolutely 'smooth' cats here too (and get scrammed if we're not careful!).

I remember first realising that not all English speakers smoove cats. I was like

I thought you meant the shop. I actually like their stuff, but I never buy it because I can't even walk past it for the smell.