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Definition of Gushy
1. Adjective. Extravagantly demonstrative. "Write unrestrained and gushy poetry"
Definition of Gushy
1. Adjective. Characteristic of a speech conducted in an effusive manner, and often pronounced with exceeding emotion. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Gushy
1. overly sentimental [adj GUSHIER, GUSHIEST] : GUSHILY [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gushy
Literary usage of Gushy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Complete Mother Goose by Ethel Franklin Betts (1909)
"gushy Goto bonny. USHY cow bonny, Let down thy milk, And I will give thee a gown
of silk; A gown of silk and a silver tee, If thou wilt let down thy milk to ..."
2. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1889)
"Displaying or characterized by gush ; effusively sentimental: as, a gushy description.
[Colloq. and contemptuous.] 2. With extravagant display of sentiment ..."
3. Social Silhouettes by George William Erskine Russell (1906)
"But there is gushy ; he, I know, would have liked it. I must say I feel for gushy;
his books only selling half what they did, and then thrown over in this ..."
4. Sir Wm. S. Gilbert: A Study in Modern Satire; a Handbook on Gilbert and the by Isaac Goldberg (1913)
"The gushy Caroline, her gloomy brother, the crafty colonel, plus poor Tom in the
vortex of all the complications that beset him, form a vehicle for ..."
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