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plushy

[ pluhsh-ee ]

adjective

, plush·i·er, plush·i·est.
  1. of, relating to, or resembling plush.
  2. Informal. characterized by luxury, wealth, or ease:

    a plushy resort.



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Other Words From

  • plushi·ness noun

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Word History and Origins

Origin of plushy1

First recorded in 1605–15; plush + -y 1

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Example Sentences

A word whose customary feeling-tone is too unquestioningly accepted becomes a plushy bit of furniture, a cliché.

They had a table to themselves in a corner of the plushy dining-room, where they could talk unheard and observe unobserved.

He had fallen into country house parties before, but never into quite such a plushy sense of riches.

It was amusing to see him thrusting his eager little beezer between the vast, soft, plushy flanks of two patrolmen.

Out of the depths of her dripping hair and her big plushy bath-towel little Eve Edgarton considered her father only casually.

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