What does it mean?

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‘I had a lush night’. What does that even mean?!

I’m British, English first language but I have no idea how to interpret that. I always think of lush as a way to describe someone or something (‘that ice cream was lush’, ‘Harry is lush’). I wouldn’t use it, personally, so perhaps my confusion.

But in reference to an evening - it sounds somewhat seedy, no? Or is it colloquial and I’m not picking up on it?

Do you have any words that confuse you in certain contexts, even though they should make perfect sense really?

I think it just means pleasing? 😬 I don't use the word myself.

Lush just means lovely.

Oh, I suppose that makes sense. I think of it (going back many years) in a teenage context and it seemed to imply sexually attractive.

I always thought it was an odd way to describe ice cream 😂

Just a Welsh way of saying ‘I had a lovely night’ I don’t understand the confusion tbh, surely you can glean the meaning of it from the context it’s used in 🙄

I HATE the word Lush. It absolutely infuriates me.

I would kill for a 'lush night' at the moment.

I don't think you would say you had a 'sexually attractive' night so just a really nice night.

It's a way of saying something is lovely/pleasing/attractive. Could be an ice cream, could be a person or could be a night out.
My friend Harry (who is lush) and I had a lush day out at the beach. We had a lush ice-cream on the pier. The weather was lush. I saw a lush handbag in a shop so treated myself. I also bought some lush handcream.

Ok, nobody over the age of 15 would really speak like that but I can remember saying it all the time when I was in school.

Just a Welsh way of saying ‘I had a lovely night’ I don’t understand the confusion tbh, surely you can glean the meaning of it from the context it’s used in

Yep, and also a Devon word.

I had a gurt lush night :D

Don,t really use in that way, but yes it was lush, it was fab, it was great. All mean the same.

Are they from Bristol or Wales OP? Pretty common turn of phrase in both- just means good/lovely. There's nothing sexual in it, andi can't see how it's seedy.

Surely you could have simply Googled.

Old lush = alcoholic.

And a Wiltshire word. Just means better than good

I had a lush day= I had a great day
It was lush today= The weather was lovely today
I had a lush night= I gpt really pissed and no one was sick or cried in the toilets because their ex is shagging that bitch Julie from accounts

lush is just a positive word, I'm suprosed you haven't heard it used like that before.

I don’t use the word lush unless I’m buying from Lush.

Bristolian here, gurt lush!

Had a great night

Had to laugh at this as have just finished binge watching Gavin and Stacey. Anyone who has seen it will know that Stacey uses 'lush' all the time.

I had a gurt lush night

Me too

That word makes me physically heave.

As for "gert lush" - no uglier syllables in any language.

Its not a “welsh” thing. There are so many dialects in Wales and its not used up north. Its a south Wales thing

It seems to be used now as a general term for something good/enjoyable.

It rankles with me a bit because when it first seemed to come into use as a positive term (as opposed to meaning an old alcoholic) it was understood as a shortening of "luscious". So it was used to describe delicious food or an attractive person.

A "luscious" night out doesn't really make sense!

I've heard it in part of the midlands where you get a mix of West Country, Black Country and Brum. Take a dictionary if you venture there

It's not a word used round here. For some reason it makes me shudder when I hear it!

I’ve not heard anyone use it for 15 years as far as I can remember (though yes, I didn’t think or the reference to it in Gavin and Stacey).

It’s bizarre - I’m usually fine with words but it just sounded like an odd way to refer to an evening so I wasn’t sure if I misunderstood what was being said.