'Gushing' definitions:
Definition of 'gushing'
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Definition of 'Gushing'
From: GCIDE
- Gushing \Gush"ing\, a.
- 1. Rushing forth with violence, as a fluid; flowing copiously; as, gushing waters. "Gushing blood." --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Emitting copiously, as tears or words; weakly and unreservedly demonstrative in matters of affection; sentimental. [Colloq.] [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Gushing'
From: GCIDE
- 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.] [1913 Webster]
- 1. To issue with violence and rapidity, as a fluid; to rush forth as a fluid from confinement; to flow copiously. [1913 Webster]
- He smote the rock that the waters gushed out. --Ps ixxviii 20. [1913 Webster]
- A sea of blood gushed from the gaping wound. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To make a sentimental or untimely exhibition of affection; to display enthusiasm in a silly, demonstrative manner. [Colloq.] [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'gushing'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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