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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



... appear; The man who frowns this day shall lose his head, That he may have no face to frown withal. Smile Dollallolla—Ha! what wrinkled sorrow [2] Hangs, sits, lies, frowns upon thy knitted brow? Whence flow those tears fast down thy blubber'd cheeks, Like a swoln gutter, gushing through the streets? ...
— Miscellanies, Volume 2 (from Works, Volume 12) • Henry Fielding

... energetic and rapid in execution, he will clear the arena in a few moments. He rushes at one horse after another, tears them open with his terrible "spears" ("horns" is a word never used in the ring), and sends them madly galloping over the arena, trampling out their gushing bowels as they fly. The assistants watch their opportunity, from time to time, to take the wounded horses out of the ring, plug up their gaping rents with tow, and sew them roughly up for another sally. It is incredible to see what these poor creatures will endure,—carrying their ...
— Castilian Days • John Hay

... remained unbroken, yet the deep, dull reports that rose in quick succession to the ear from the cracking mass in every direction around, and the sharp, hissing, gurgling sounds of the water, which was gushing violently upwards through the fast multiplying fissures, together with the visible, tremor-like agitation that pervaded the whole, plainly evinced that it could not long withstand the tremendous pressure of the laboring column ...
— The Rangers - [Subtitle: The Tory's Daughter] • D. P. Thompson

... as if it had been boiling three weeks in a rancid pot. It was the smell of coffee, all right, but a smell that was fiendishly distorted, overpoweringly, nauseatingly magnified. It pervaded the room and burned his throat and brought tears gushing to ...
— The Coffin Cure • Alan Edward Nourse

... acknowledged his obligation to the patron,' says Judge Webb. The dedication of 'Lucrece' is acknowledgment enough. The Judge ought to think so, for he speaks, with needless vigour, of 'the protestations, warm and gushing as a geyser, of "The Rape."' There is nothing 'warm,' and nothing 'gushing,' in the dedication of 'Lucrece' (granting the style of the age), but, if it were as the Judge says, here, indeed, would be the client's 'acknowledgment,' which, the ...
— The Valet's Tragedy and Other Stories • Andrew Lang


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