Gush

Definition: Gush

Gush

Noun

1. A sudden rapid flow (as of water); "he heard the flush of a toilet"; "there was a little gush of blood"; "she attacked him with an outpouring of words".

2. An unrestrained expression of emotion.

Verb

1. Gush forth in a sudden stream or jet of liquids.

2. Praise enthusiastically; "She raved about that new restaurant".

3. Issue in a jet; come out in a jet; stream or spring forth; "Water jetted forth"; "flames were jetting out of the building".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "gush" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1385. (references)

Note: Gush \Gush\, intransitive verb [imperfect & past participle. Gushed; Gushing.]. (references)

Synonyms: Gush

Egress

Noun: egress, exit, issue; emersion, emergence; outbreak, outburst; eruption, proruption; emanation; egression; evacuation; exudation, transudation; extravasation, perspiration, sweating, leakage, percolation, distillation, oozing; gush; (water in motion); outpour, outpouring; effluence, effusion; effluxion, drain; dribbling; Verb: defluxion; drainage; outcome, output; discharge; (excretion).

Exude, transude; leak, run through, out through; percolate, transcolate; egurgitate; strain, distill; perspire, sweat, drain, ooze; filter, filtrate; dribble, gush, spout, flow out; well, well out; pour, trickle; (water in motion); effuse, extravasate, disembogue, discharge itself, debouch; come forth, break forth; burst out, burst through; find vent; escape.

Feeling

Warmth, glow, unction, gusto, vehemence; fervor, fervency; heartiness, cordiality; earnestness, eagerness; empressement, gush, ardor, zeal, passion, enthusiasm, verve, furore, fanaticism; excitation of feeling; fullness of the heart; (disposition); passion; (state of excitability); ecstasy; (pleasure).

River

Verb: flow, run; meander; gush, pour, spout, roll, jet, well, issue; drop, drip, dribble, plash, spirtle, trill, trickle, distill, percolate; stream, overflow, inundate, deluge, flow over, splash, swash; guggle, murmur, babble, bubble, purl, gurgle, sputter, spurt, spray, regurgitate; ooze, flow out. (egress).

Jet, spirt, spurt, squirt, spout, spray, splash, rush, gush, jet d'eau; sluice.

Crosswords: Gush

You are a vampire who never knew what life was until it ran out in a big gush over your lips (Interview With the Vampire; writing credit: Anne Rice)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Ben Yarkon ve-Ayalon : mehkarim °al Gush Dan ve-°Emek Lod (reference)

• Excavations at the Ancient Synagogue of Gush Halav (reference)

• Gush (reference)

• Gush (a novel about unemployment in California) (reference)

• Me-Hertsel °ad Gush emunim uva-hazarah (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Gush #1 [IMPORT] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

In a moment more, the crowd began to gush forth from the doors of the church

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Economic History

Canada

Its oil production comes from 36 percent oil sands, 7 percent East Coast offshore operations, and the balance from traditional drill and gush operations. (references)

Human Rights

Israel and the occupied territories

For example, on January 21, the Jerusalem District Court sentenced Nahum Korman, former security coordinator for the Gush Etzion settlement, to 6 months of community service and 15 months of probation for the 1996 murder of 12-year-old Palestinian Hilmi Shusha. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "gush": gush forth ♦ gush forward ♦ gush out ♦ gush over ♦ gush over smb.. Additional references.

Ending with "gush": Wood-gush.

Albanian

vërshoj (overflow, overrun), teptisje (eruption, haemorrhage, hemorrhage, overflow, recoil, spouting), teptis (overflow, overrun, spout), të folur i papërmbajtur, shpërthim (access, blast, blowout, burst, conniption, detonation, effusion, eruption, explosion, fit, flare, flare up, furor, gust, outbreak, outburst, output, paroxysm, report, Sally, tornado), shkulm (belch, jet), rrëke (Beck, bourn, Bourne, burn, deluge, flood, flow, rain, runlet, runnel, stream, torrent), buron (begin, derive, descend, emanate, flow out, proceed, spring, start, stem). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فياض الشعور (gushing), ‏تفجر (burst, detonate, explode, fulminate, outburst, spurt, well), ‏تكلم بحماس, ‏تدفق الماء, ‏تدفق (affluence, afflux, bubble, discharge, drift, flow, flowing, fluency, flux, inflow, influx, inrush, issue, jet, onrush, outbreak, outflow, outpouring, pour, roll, shoot, shoot up, slop, spirt, spout, spurt, stream, surge, throng), ‏تدف الجاز. (various references)

Basque

sortu (gush to, spring to, well to). (various references)

Bulgarian 

струя (blast, current, flow, jet, rush, spout, squirt, stream, trail, well up), силна струя (flush, onrush, spirt, spout, spurt), рукване, лея се (pour, pour in, pour out, run, shower, stream, teem down, well up), бликане, бликам (flow, spout, squirt, well), правя излияния, поток (current, flow, nullah, onflow, pour, river, run, runnel, shower, stream, tide), излияния (flow, outpourings, romantics, slop, slops), избликвам (spout, well). (various references)

Chinese 

涌出 (Gushed, gushing, gushy, Welled, Welling). (various references)

Czech

záplava (barrage, flash flood, flood, gust, overflow, spate, stream), vyřinout se, výbuch (blast, blaze, burst, detonation, eruption, explosion, gust, outbreak, outburst, paroxysm, salvo), proud (current, drift, flood, flow, flush, jet, race, river, run, spout, stream, trend), příval (avalanche, barrage, gust, inrush, spate, stream, surge, volley). (various references)

Dutch

verspuiten (spurt, spurt out), stuiven (spurt, spurt out), opspatten (spurt, spurt out). (various references)

Esperanto

ŝpruci (spurt, spurt out). (various references)

Faeroese

spræna (spurt, spurt out). (various references)

Farsi 

فواره زدن (Jet, Spout), فوران (Eruption, Jet, Outburst, Spout, Spurt), تراوش (Leak, Leakage), جوش (Boil, Effervescence, Eruption, Pimple, Rash, Simmer, Solder, Spout, Weld), جاری شدن (Emanate, Pour, Rill, Run, Stream), جریان (Circuit, Course, Flow, Fluor, Income, Inset, Ooze, Outflow, Progress, Rede, Stream, Tide), ریزش (Catarrh, Diffusion, Downfall, Income, Influx, Infusion, Outflow, Slide, Slump, Spray), روان شدن (Flow, Trill). (various references)

Finnish

vuotaa virtanaan (flow in streams, gush out in streams), purskua (gush out, spurt out). (various references)

French

jaillir (gush forth), flot. (various references)

Frisian

sproeie (spurt, spurt out). (various references)

German

Strom (current, electricity, flux, passage, power, river, stream, torrent, volley). (various references)

Greek 

αναβλύζω (jet, spout, spurt, well, well up). (various references)

Hebrew 

לפכות (bubble, well), ל�"תפרץ (barge in, break in, break out, burst, flare up, jet, make a scene, surge), ל�"שתפך (overflow), ל�"�'יח (attack suddenly, burst out, dash), ל�"בר ב�"תל�"בות מעוש�", שטף (current, flow, flux, spate, stream, torrent), קלוח (flow, jet, steam), פכפוך (bubbling, dripping, flow, percolation, trickle). (various references)

Hungarian

áradat (deluge, flood, flow, flush, flux, freshet, inundation, river, stream, tide, volley). (various references)

Indonesian

pancaran (effluence, ejaculation, emmission), memancar (emanate, jet, sprout), bercucuran (flow, stream). (various references)

Italian

zampillare (burst, spirt, spout, spring, spurt), sgorgare (extravasation, flow, gush out, pour, spring, spurt). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

迸る (to gush out, to surge, to well up), 噴き出す (to burst into laughter, to gush out, to spout, to spurt), 沸き出す (to cause to gush out), 沸き出る (to gush forth), 沸く (to boil, to get excited, to grow hot, to gush forth), 湧き出る (to gush forth), 湧く (to boil, to get excited, to grow hot, to gush), 涌く (to boil, to get excited, to grow hot, to gush forth), 流れ出す (to drift away, to flow out, to gush forth, to leak, to ooze out, to pour out, to stream out), 流れ出る (to drift away, to flow out, to gush forth, to leak, to ooze out, to pour out, to stream out), 吹き出す (to burst into laughter, to gush out, to spout, to spurt). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ながれでる (to drift away, to flow out, to gush forth, to leak, to ooze out, to pour out, to stream out), ながれ� す (to drift away, to flow out, to gush forth, to leak, to ooze out, to pour out, to stream out), ふき� す (to burst into laughter, to gush out, to spout, to spurt), ほとばしる (to gush out, to surge, to well up), わきでる (to gush forth), わき� す (to cause to gush out), わく (frame, slide, to boil, to get excited, to grow hot, to gush forth). (various references)

Manx

skiootal (burst forth, burst forth of liquid, cascade, cascading, jet, rush, spout, spouting, spurt, squirting), skioot (burst, jet, rush of liquid, spout, spurt, squirt), brooightey (burst forth of liquid, debouch, debouchment, emission, emit, flush), brooight (seaweed cast on shore). (various references)

Norwegian

utbrudd (eruption), sprut (jet). (various references)

Occitan

rajar (spring, well). (various references)

Pig Latin

ushgay.(various references)

Portuguese

jorrar (flood, flush, outpour, spout, spurt, spurt out), esguichar (douche, flush, jet, spirt, spout, spurt, spurt out, swash). (various references)

Romanian

torent (drift, fireworks, flood, fresh, torrent), jet (douche, gust, jet, spirt, spurt, squirt), izbucni (break forth, break out, burst, burst into, burst out, erupt, flare, fling, spurt), face sã ţâşneascã, efuziune (effusion), deborda (overflow, vomit), ciurui (bolt, riddle, screen, sieve), şuvoi (flood, flush, flux, Gill, gushing, jet, outpour, stack, stream, torrent), a-şi manifesta puternic sentiment, împroşca cu, ţâşniturã (spirt, spout, squirt), ţâşni (break forth, burst, flush, splash, spout, spring, squirt). (various references)

Russian 

сильный поток, хлынуть (gush out, pour in torrents, stream), поток (current, flow, flux, outpour, rain, shower, spate, stream, tide, torrance, torrent, volley, watercourse), излияние (effusion, outpouring). (various references)

Scottish

biorg. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

vrcati (sparkle, spurt), poteći (pour out, stream), šiknuti (jet), šikljanje. (various references)

Spanish

chorro (blast, effluent, flow, jet, puff, spirt, squirt, stream, swash, trickle). (various references)

Swedish

spruta fram, forsa ut. (various references)

Thai

พู�"มาก (noise, talky), พุ่ง, การพู�"ยกยอมากไป, การทะลักออก. (various references)

Turkish

taşmak (boil over, brim over, flow, get over, overbrim, overflow, pour forth, pour out, run over, slop over, spill over, swell, swim, well over), taşma (ebullition, outburst, outpour, outpouring, overflow, overflowing, surge), taşkınlık (abundance, boisterousness, ebullience, ebulliency, ebullition, effusion, excess, extravagance, exuberance, exuberancy, flush, frenzy, furor, furore, intemperance, overflowing, rampancy, transport), sevgi gösterisi, fışkırma (emanation, eruption, jet, outburst, spout, spurt, squirt), coşmak (boil up, bubble over, effervesce, enthuse, glow, let oneself go, overflow, slop over), coşma (inflammation, transport), coşku (ebullition, ecstasy, effervescence, elation, enthusiasm, excitement, exuberance, exuberancy, furor, furore, glow, rave, rhapsody, spring tide, temperament, yeast). (various references)

Turkmen 

zogdyrylmak (rush out, spurt), joюmak (overflow). (various references)

Ukrainian

хлинути, фонтанувати, злива (cannonade, cloud-burst, deluge, downfall, drench, drencher, floodwaters, hail, pour, scat, shower, soaker, spate), порив (appetition, dash, ecstasy, gust, waff). (various references)

Vietnamese 

sự vọt ra sự bộc lộ tr� n trề, sự phun ra (outgush, outrush, spirt). (various references)

Welsh

rhaeadru (pour), pistyllio (spout), ffrydio (stream). (various references)

profui, profundo, profundo frofui profusum, profundo, profui, profusum, unda. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "gush": gushed, gusher, gushers, gushes, gushier, gushiest, gushily, gushiness, gushinesses, gushing, gushingly, gushy. (additional references)

Words ending with "gush": outgush. (additional references)

Words containing "gush": outgushes. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Gush" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aush, fush, Gasch, geh, Geshe, gfsa, gih, girsh, gish, Glushko, goash, goch, goeh, goesh, gohsh, Gosha, goshe, Gosho, Gosht, gosth, gosu, Gotsch, gouh, goush, grush, gs, gudh, gues, guh, Guihua, guish, Gulsham, gus, gusa, Guse, gusk, gusp, guss, gusy, guth, Guus, guvs, guz, jush, Ugghhh, ughh, ughs, Ugoh, ush. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: hugs, sugh, ughs.

-1 letter: hug, ugh.

-2 letters: sh, uh, us.

+1 letter: chugs, gursh, gushy, saugh, shrug, sough, sughs, thugs, vughs.

+2 letters: aguish, aughts, boughs, brughs, bugsha, burghs, coughs, doughs, ghauts, ghouls, gushed, gusher, gushes, haughs, heughs, hugest, laughs, loughs, oughts, roughs, saughs, saughy, shaugh, sheugh, shogun, shrugs, slough, soughs, sought, sughed, toughs.

+3 letters: anguish, bugshas, bushing, bushpig, choughs, cloughs, curaghs, enoughs, gauchos, goulash, grushie, gulches, gumshoe, gunship, gunshot, gurshes, gushers, gushier, gushily, gushing, hagbush, hagbuts, hangups, hognuts, housing, hugeous, huggers, humbugs, hungers, hushing, husking, kiaughs, lushing, meshuga, mugshot, mushing, naughts, noughts, outgush, ploughs, puggish, pushing, quahogs, quaighs, quohogs, roguish, rushing, shaughs, sheughs, shoguns, shotgun, shuting, sloughs, sloughy, sorghum, soughed, sughing, troughs, tushing, unhangs, unsight, voguish, waughts.