Gushing \Gush"ing\, a.
1. Rushing forth with violence, as a fluid; flowing
copiously; as, gushing waters. "Gushing blood." --Milton.
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2. Emitting copiously, as tears or words; weakly and
unreservedly demonstrative in matters of affection;
sentimental. [Colloq.]
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Gush \Gush\ (g[u^]sh), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Gushed (g[u^]sht);
p. pr. & vb. n. Gushing.] [OE. guschen, cf. Icel. gusa and
gjsa, also D. gucsen; perh. akin to AS. ge['o]tan to pour, G.
giessen, Goth. giutan, E. gut. Cf. Found to cast.]
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1. To issue with violence and rapidity, as a fluid; to rush
forth as a fluid from confinement; to flow copiously.
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He smote the rock that the waters gushed out. --Ps
ixxviii 20.
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A sea of blood gushed from the gaping wound.
--Spenser.
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2. To make a sentimental or untimely exhibition of affection;
to display enthusiasm in a silly, demonstrative manner.
[Colloq.]
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
gushing
adj 1: flowing profusely; "a gushing hydrant"; "pouring flood
waters" [syn: pouring]
2: uttered with unrestrained enthusiasm; "a novel told in
burbly panting tones" [syn: burbling, burbly, effusive]
3: extravagantly demonstrative; "insincere and effusive
demonstrations of sentimental friendship"; "a large
gushing female"; "write unrestrained and gushy poetry"
[syn: effusive, emotional, gushing(a), gushy]
WordNet (r) 2.0
146 Moby Thesaurus words for "gushing":
abundance, abundant, adulatory, affluent, amplitude, bathetic,
beery, bland, blandishing, blarneying, buttery, cajoling,
cloud of words, cloying, complimentary, confluent, copious,
copiousness, coursing, courtierly, courtly, decurrent, defluent,
diffluent, diffuse, diffuseness, diffusion, diffusive,
diffusiveness, effusion, effusive, effusiveness, extravagance,
extravagant, exuberance, exuberant, fair-spoken, fawning, fecund,
fecundity, fertility, fine-spoken, flattering, flowing, fluency,
fluent, fluxional, fluxive, formless, formlessness, fulsome, gooey,
gulfy, gush, gushy, honey-mouthed, honey-tongued, honeyed,
insincere, insinuating, logorrhea, macrology, maudlin, mawkish,
mazy, mealymouthed, meandering, mushy, namby-pamby, nostalgic,
nostomanic, obsequious, oily, oily-tongued, outpour, overflow,
overflowing, oversentimental, oversentimentalized, palilogy,
pleonasm, pleonastic, pouring, prodigal, prodigality, productive,
productivity, profluent, profuse, profuseness, profusion,
profusive, prolific, prolificacy, prolificity, racing, rampancy,
rankness, redundancy, redundant, reiteration, reiterative,
reiterativeness, repetition for effect, repetitive, repetitiveness,
romantic, running, rushing, sappy, sentimental, sentimentalized,
serpentine, slimy, slobbering, slobbery, sloppy, sluggish, smarmy,
smooth, smooth-spoken, smooth-tongued, soapy, soft, soft-soaping,
sticky, streaming, superabundance, superabundant, superfluity,
superflux, surging, surgy, sycophantic, talkativeness, tautologous,
tautology, tear-jerking, teary, teeming, teemingness, tidal,
tirade, unctuous, vortical, wheedling
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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