gush
/ˈɡʌʃ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 2.83 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "There was a cartoon woman in an apron on the front. She stood with one hand on her hip while she used the other hand to pour a gush of drain-cleaner into something that was either an industrial sink or Orson Welles's bidet."
- "Water gushed out of the broken pipe."
- "After he was stabbed, blood came gushing out his throat."
- "All the complaints she'd bottled up came gushing out during their marriage counselling session."
- "Large streames of bloud out of the truncked stocke / Forth gushed, like fresh water streame from riuen rocke."
- "On life's long round by chance I found / A dell impearled with dew, / Where hyacinths, gushing from the ground, / Lent to the earth heaven's native hue / Of holy blue."
Etymology
From Middle English guschen, gusshen, gosshien, perhaps from Middle Dutch guysen (“to flow out with a gurgling sound, gush”) or Old Norse gusa (“to gush”), ultimately imitative. Compare Old Norse geysa (“to gush”), German gießen (“to pour”), Old English ġēotan ("to pour"; > English yote). Related to gust.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: *ǵʰew-, guschen, guysen, gusa
Usage
Subject
Wiktionary places this term in Medicine.