To hate how the word Lush is bandied around these days?

[Teaseall]

It makes me shudder.
To me it means verdant, luxuriant greenery or someone who likes the drink a little too much ... it just gives me the rage when it's used to describe pretty average stuff.

These days? It's regional and has been used for decades. You need to expand your circle.

Round my parts it's " gert lush"...love it!

I’ve not trawled the thread but it’s surely short for luscious (nothing to do with green and verdant vegetation) so it’s being used to describe anything at all which is pleasing to the senses. Cake, perfume, the fabric of a dress, glossy hair, a view...

Oh get over yourself. Since Gavin & Stacey it also just means 'good' for many people and of course the Welsh have said it for decades.

I was born in 1971 & grew up in the West Country. I always used lush at school & still use it now especially if talking about an attractive person of the opposite sex - 'he's so lush' - despite being 50!

{You could also use it in a derogatory fashion to describe someone that was always drunk - 'they're a bit of an old lush'}

I also have a couple of albums by the band Lush whom I also saw live in the early 1990s!

The bit that's making me laugh is "these days" because in my 40 something years lush has always been a common expression of satisfaction/happiness/approval rather than a recent fad.

I will confess to being from and still living in South Wales though.

I'm nearly 50 and I remember my Year 6 primary school teacher threatening us if we ever used the word again! Guessing it was slightly overused even then

I feel like there was teen magazine called lush back in the 90s

@Teaseall

That's the issue I think, I'm not in the West Country or Welsh borders, I'm Home Counties west of London. It doesn't bother me in context of either of those areas but for some reason it does when used locally now .... might be because I'm slipping into my dotage now

Oh sorry our West Country sayings are annoying to people from London. There is a world outside of London, just accept it

It’s said a lot where I live (Wales) I not only can’t get worked up by it but quite like it. And use it myself sometimes despite not being Welsh.

Oo first time I see a MN thread complaining about a regional linguistic feature from my region. Exciting! Seems like it's usually northerners who get all that fun.

I can't say it bothers me much but the constant use of 'grim' on here to apply to anything and everything really irritates me.

I don't mind 'lush' but don't use it myself. I feel I'd need to put on a Welsh Valleys accent to do it justice! But I like slang and am always interested to learn regional words and phrases.

It's been in common usage in the northeast for the 30 or so years I've been up here.

I’ve always thought of it as a Welsh thing, so interested that it’s West Country too.

Yabu as it’s a local variation in the language. Often these things do spread to other parts of the country.

We even have gurt/gert lush t shirts.