Noun: gush
| Singular | gush |
| Plural | gushes |
Sample Sentences
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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. [1990, Stephen King, The Moving Finger:]
Nouns inflected like gush
penniless-bench,
wintergrass,
kitchen pass,
grey fox,
grey box,
trailer hitch,
paleness,
loaded march,
Tush Push,
horribleness,
slaughteress,
chapparvovirus,
greenwax,
royal flush,
crab cactus,
geostress,
syngas,
wintercress,
ichthys,
ichthus, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. 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.
2. Compare Old Norse geysa (“to gush”), German gießen (“to pour”), Old English ġēotan ("to pour"; > English yote). Related to gust. See: Old Norse Nouns '
gusa', Old Norse Nouns '
geysa', Old English Nouns '
ġēotan', English Nouns '
yote'.
Verbs referencing "gush"
English Nouns
gust, Icelandic Nouns
gusa.