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Definition: Plush |
PlushAdjective1. Characterized by extravagance and profusion; "a lavish buffet"; "a lucullan feast". Noun1. A fabric with a nap that is longer and softer than velvet. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "plush" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1823. (references) |
Etymology: Plush \Plush\, noun. [French expression pluche, peluche (compare to Italian expression peluzzo), from the Latin expression pilus hair. See pile hair, and compare to Peruke.]. (references) |
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Industry | A warp pile fabric with cut pile surface longer than velvet pile and less closely woven. The weave is a variation of the plain weave. The ground is. . . cotton, and the pile may be mohair, . . etc. . . Source: European Union. (references) |
Literature | Plush (John). A gorgeous footman, conspicuous for his plush breeches. To take plush. To take a subordinate place in the ministry, where one can only act as a government flunkey. "Lord Rosebery perhaps remembers that, years ago, a young politician who had just finished his education, was warned by an old and affectionate teacher `not to take plush ... The reply was, `I have been offered plush tied with red tape, and have refused it."- Nineteenth Century, Jan., 1892, p. 137. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: PlushSynonyms: lavish (adj), lucullan (adj), lush (adj), plushy (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Roughness | Wool, velvet, plush, nap, pile, floss, fur, down; byssus, moss, bur; fluff. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Plush |
| English words defined with "plush": Silk shag ♦ teddy, teddy bear. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "plush": BRIMER ♦ ELECTRIFIER OPERATOR ♦ FUR MACHINE ♦ hummer operator ♦ panne ♦ weft-knitted plush, weft-knitted terry. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "plush": Combust. (references) |
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| "Plush lions" by Guiga Müller Commentary: "My best friend, Giuli, gave them to me...thats' us!." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | She had on at the time her plush hat and merino dress |
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Health | The US Consumer Product Safety Commission has also warned against placing any soft, plush, or bulky items, such as pillows, rolls of bedding, or cushions, in the baby's immediate sleeping environment. (references) | |
Economic History | Poland | Poland specializes in the manufacturing of board games and toys made of plastics, plush and stuffed animals and dolls, wooden and wicker toys, and ornamental bulbs for Christmas trees. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Plush" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 84.27% of the time. "Plush" is used about 89 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 84.27% | 75 | 38,535 |
| Noun (singular) | 15.73% | 14 | 93,893 |
| Total | 100.00% | 89 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "plush" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Plush | Last name | 130 | 54,881 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
1. Plush, OR |
Expression using "plush": long pile plush. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "plush": plush-carpeted, plush-covered, plush-lined. | |
Ending with "plush": over-plush. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
plush cat | 644 | plush animal wholesale | 18 |
plush toy | 274 | plush dog | 17 |
plush | 254 | so plush | 17 |
plush animal | 110 | plush bear | 16 |
boyds plush | 75 | nemo plush | 16 |
care bear plush | 53 | dog plush toy | 16 |
boyds bear plush | 41 | hello kitty plush | 16 |
magazine plush | 37 | plush carpet | 15 |
plush wholesale | 36 | digimon plush toy | 15 |
lyrics plush | 35 | stone temple pilot plush | 15 |
lyrics pilot plush stone temple | 34 | plush doll | 14 |
horse plush | 28 | inuyasha plush | 13 |
plush rocking horse | 25 | cthulhu plush | 13 |
plush toy manufacturer | 23 | anime plush | 13 |
finding nemo plush | 23 | plush stuffed animal | 13 |
pokemon plush | 21 | plush puppy | 12 |
finding nemo plush toy | 20 | club night plush | 12 |
wholesale plush toy | 19 | snoopy plush | 11 |
plush room | 18 | jacksonville plush | 11 |
plush tab | 18 | aurora plush | 11 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "plush"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | prej pelushi, pelush. (various references) | |
Arabic | البلش نسيج, بلشي. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | елегантен (classy, dashing, debonair, doggy, dressy, elegant, feat, fine, genteel, graceful, jimp, mod, nifty, plushy, posh, rakish, saucy, sharp, silk stocking, smart, snappy, stylish, swell, swish, tasty), луксозен (de luxe, fancy, luxurious, luxury, plushy, posh, ritzy, slapping), плюшен (plushy), плюш. (various references) | |
Chinese | 长毛绒. (various references) | |
Czech | plyš. (various references) | |
Danish | plys. (various references) | |
Dutch | pluche. (various references) | |
Farsi | مخمل خواب دار, مجلل (Gala, Glorious, Gorgeous, Grand, Illustrious, Imperial, Luxuriant, Luxurious, Royalty, Stately, Sumptuous), باشکوه (Gala, Glorious, Imperial, Lush, Majestic, Noble, Rial, Rich, Stately, Superb). (various references) | |
Finnish | plyysi. (various references) | |
French | peluche (warp-knitted plush). (various references) | |
German | Plüsch, vornehm (aristocratic, classy, courtly, dapper, distinguished, elegant, exclusive, fashionable, fine, genteel, gentlemanly, high ranking, highbred, ladylike, lordly, noble, noble-minded, nobly, plushly, posh, poshly, refined, smart, stylish, swell, swish, up-market). (various references) | |
Greek | πλούσα, είδοσ βελούδου (velour). (various references) | |
Hebrew | פלוסין. (various references) | |
Hungarian | plüss (shag). (various references) | |
Indonesian | mewah (deluxe, lavish, luxurious, patial, posh). (various references) | |
Italian | felpa (panne, sweatshirt). (various references) | |
Manx | eaddagh clooieagh. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ushplay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | pelúcia (shag). (various references) | |
Romanian | somptuos (gorgeous, luxurious, magnificent, palatial, princely, rich, richly, sumptuous, sumptuously), grozav (a, almighty, atrocious, awful, awfully, bally, beastly, bully, classy, clinking, Dandy, desperate, dreadful, exceedingly, excessively, famous, fell, first rate, formidable, frightful, gee, ghastly, grand, horrible, horrid, immense, immensely, jolly, killing, like blazes, like hell, lovely, mad, magnificent, mightily, nicely, nifty, plushy, proper, ripping, some, stunning, swell, terrible, terribly, terrific, thundering, topping, tremendous, tremendously, uncommonly, vastly, whacking). (various references) | |
Russian | плюш плюшевый, плюш. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | plišani (plushy), pliš (shag). (various references) | |
Spanish | felpa (chenille). (various references) | |
Swedish | rik (affluent, fertile, opulent, plenteous, rich, wealthy, well heeled, well off, well-off, wide), plysch. (various references) | |
Turkish | peluş. (various references) | |
Turkmen | mahmal. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | плюшовий, плюш. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | vải lông, sang trọng (fashionable, luxurious, posh, royal, royally), lộng lẫy (gallant, gorgeous, lustrous, princely, rich, royally, sheeny, splendent, splendid), bằng vải lông, bằng nhung dài lông xa hoa. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Old French | 900-1400 | peluchier. (various references) |
| Middle French | 1400-1600 | pluche. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "plush": plusher, plushes, plushest, plushier, plushiest, plushily, plushiness, plushinesses, plushly, plushness, plushnesses, plushy. (additional references) | |
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"Plush" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Alush, paush, Pelesh, plasha, plashy, plech, Pleshy, plieh, plish, Pliusch, Pliushch, plokho, ploosh, plosh, plsu, pluh, pluis, plust, pluth, plysh, Plysu. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "plush" (pronounced plu"sh) |
| 3 | -l u" sh | blush, flush, lush, slush. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "h-l-p-s-u" | |
-1 letter: lush, plus, puls, push, shul. | |
-2 letters: hup, pul, pus, sup, ups. | |
-3 letters: sh, uh, up, us. | |
| Words containing the letters "h-l-p-s-u" | |
+1 letter: plushy, shlump, sulpha. | |
+2 letters: holdups, huipils, lumpish, phallus, ploughs, plusher, plushes, plushly, publish, pushful, pushily, schlump, shlumps, shlumpy, sulphas, sulphid, sulphur, uphills, upholds. | |
+3 letters: clumpish, galumphs, hopefuls, huipiles, humpless, lumpfish, plumpish, plushest, plushier, plushily, purplish, pushball, schlumps, shlumped, spherule, subphyla, sulphate, sulphide, sulphids, sulphite, sulphone, sulphurs, sulphury, uplights, uppishly. | |
+4 letters: asphaltum, bullwhips, copublish, flophouse, guildship, lumpishly, pachoulis, penuchles, phalluses, playhouse, ploughers, plushiest, plushness, prudishly, published, publisher, publishes, puckishly, punchless, pushballs, republish, rulership, schlumped, sepulcher, sepulchre, shlumping, spherules, spleuchan, subphylum, sulphated, sulphates, sulphides, sulphites, sulphones, sulphured, unshapely, upheavals, upholders, upholster. | |
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