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Gushing   /gˈəʃɪŋ/   Listen
verb
Gush  v. t.  
1.
A sudden and violent issue of a fluid from an inclosed plase; an emission of a liquid in a large quantity, and with force; the fluid thus emitted; a rapid outpouring of anything; as, a gush of song from a bird. "The gush of springs, An fall of lofty foundains."
2.
A sentimental exhibition of affection or enthusiasm, etc.; effusive display of sentiment. (Collog.)


Gush  v. i.  (past & past part. gushed; pres. part. gushing)  
1.
To issue with violence and rapidity, as a fluid; to rush forth as a fluid from confinement; to flow copiously. "He smote the rock that the waters gushed out." "A sea of blood gushed from the gaping wound."
2.
To make a sentimental or untimely exhibition of affection; to display enthusiasm in a silly, demonstrative manner. (Colloq.)


adjective
Gushing  adj.  
1.
Rushing forth with violence, as a fluid; flowing copiously; as, gushing waters. "Gushing blood."
2.
Emitting copiously, as tears or words; weakly and unreservedly demonstrative in matters of affection; sentimental. (Colloq.)





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"Gushing" Quotes from Famous Books



... recover in this prosaic world my long-lost paradise of the drop-curtain, but morning revealed it to me here on Leeward Island. Here was the feathery foliage, the gushing springs, the gorgeous flowers of that enchanted land. And here were the soft and intoxicating perfumes that I had imagined in my ...
— Spanish Doubloons • Camilla Kenyon
... saying to you that I do care for him, and that I love him, and want to marry him," broke in Phyllis, with tremulous vehemence, tears gushing from her eyes at the same time; and a depth of touching pathos seemed to open behind her words, albeit they rang like so many notes of rank boldness in ...
— Southern Lights and Shadows • Edited by William Dean Howells & Henry Mills Alden
... in his gushing love, welcomed the new religion to his country and to his heart. He was willing to share its persecutions, and endure shame for the cross ...
— History of the Negro Race in America From 1619 to 1880. Vol 1 - Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens • George W. Williams
... Gushing from this living fountain, Music pours a falling strain, As the goddess of the mountain Comes with all her sparkling train. From her grotto-springs advancing, Glittering in her feathery spray, Woodland fays beside her dancing, ...
— Poems • George P. Morris
... old chap, I'm not given to gushing, You know, but I'm tired to-night. . . . . . I think I am centuries older, Yet if you were here I dare say, I should put my head down on your shoulder And cry—you ...
— Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905 • Various


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