To really dislike the word 'Lush'?

[pavlovthecat]

Its just so common sounding.

I have just read it being used somewhere - 'oh she looks lush, it would be lush to use it tomorrow at her birthday' in reference to a photo of an old lady drunk as a lord.

So, AIBU?

in my mind lush is a grotesque shop or a drunk

yanbu

I put it in the same category as when people describe things as 'to die for' when really they mean they quite like it.

E.g. "That chocolate cake is lush, it's to die for.".

I love LUSH, I could spend hours in there and so could DD.

I suppose it's just personal taste, I can't bear Tesco but lots of people go there.

teaonesugar - i am talking about the word lush, rather than the shop. To describe something or someone as lush.

although i am not a huge fan of the shop, can give or take it.

I'm Welsh and the word lush was very popular when I was a teen (41 now) e.g. 'I love that, it's lush'. I hated it then and still hate it. Like potatofactory I also hate the smell of the Lush shops too - makes me heave and I'm convinced they must 'pump' it out as you can smell it for miles around.

Love Lush too. Smells anything but cheap and I'd rather smell that than half the other things on the street. Don't like the word though.

I am another hater of the word lush when used to describe anything other than vegetation or an afternoon-drinker. Not mad keen on the shop, either.

Other words I hate: fave, hubby, scrumptious, hun (and hunni/hunny/any derivative thereof), deffo (or however it's spelt- instead of definitely), moist and gusset.

By Ronaldinhio on Sat 06-Jun-09 09:05:50
in my mind lush is a grotesque shop or a drunk

I was responding to this comment rather than the OP

Am with the camp of using it to describe something as pretty fabulous
I remember the one time it was used to describe me
(am a Southerner so not a common word in that sense in my vocab)
And no, not as a drunk

YABU

Imagine working in there!essential oils can smell goegeous and subtle like decleor and liz earle Maybe its an age thing but they smell like floor cleaner from outside.Like the word though for describing forests and flowers

round are way 'Lush' is used a lot'
'arrgh thaslushtharis'
is heard frequently - am in South Wales.
I blame Nessa I does.

Geordie lass here although I'm not a fat slag or pissed I do use this word and have used it for years.
I think it is a word that we in the North East use often.
I know quite a few fellow Geordies who use it but in the context of really really liking something. I didn't know that it is a word you would use for 'excessively drunk person' You learn something new on MN every day !!!!

I don't really like 'lush'. But then I am someone who stubbornly punctuates her text messages with all words spelled in full.

I hate 'tot' used to to describe a baby or toddler.

mkb- geordie here too (well kind of!) and I only really started hearing it in the last five or so years! Until then it was definitely an alcoholic woman

Don't like it. Think we used it age 13. Do like the shop.

YANBU.

MKB and SPB, it was used by a lovely Geordie to me and it is one of those things I will remember when I am an old lady.

I love lush, its lush!