lushness

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
lush1

▶adjective

• 1 (of vegetation) luxuriant.

  ■ very rich and providing great sensory pleasure.

• 2 Brit. informal sexually attractive.

  ■ very good: I had some really lush pressies.

– derivatives
lushly adverb,
lushness noun.

– origin ME: perh. an alt. of obs. lash ‘soft, lax’, from OFr. lasche ‘lax’, by assoc. with luscious.

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
lush2 informal, chiefly N. Amer.

▶noun a drunkard. ▶verb dated make (someone) drunk.

– origin C18: perh. a humorous use of lush1.