plush
/plʌʃ/
plush adjective: very extravagant.
Adjective
plush (comparative plusher, superlative plushest)
- Very extravagant.
- Very expensive, or appearing expensive; opulent, luxurious.
- They lived in a plush apartment complex.
- Having a soft, fluffy exterior (of a man-made object, especially stuffed animals or upholstery).
- This plush toy is so cute and soft — I want it!
Noun
plush (countable and uncountable, plural plushes)
- A textile fabric with a nap or shag on one side, longer and softer than the nap of velvet.
- Mr. Cooke had had a sloop yacht built at Far Harbor, the completion of which had been delayed, and which was but just delivered. […] The Maria had a cabin, which was finished in hard wood and yellow plush, and accommodations for keeping things cold.1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter X, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC
- That night the Boy slept in a different bedroom, and he had a new bunny to sleep with him. It was a splendid bunny, all white plush with real glass eyes, but the Boy was too excited to care very much about it.1921 June, Margery Williams, “The Velveteen Rabbit: Or How Toys Become Real”, in Harper’s Bazar, volume LVI, number 6 (2504 overall), New York, N.Y.: International Magazine Company, →ISSN, →OCLC...
- A plush toy.
- When Play Along — the holder of the Care Bears master toy license — placed Care Bears plushes in Spencer Gifts last year, tweens and teenage girls bought the toys.2002 March 2, Billboard, volume 114, number 9, page 70
- For a small fee, the player can control a crane equipped with a gripper to pick a gift, usually a plush or a small toy, and has to drop it in a place where he/she can grab it.2008, Lionel Birglen, Thierry Laliberté, Clément M. Gosselin, Underactuated Robotic Hands, page 94
Verb
plush (third-person singular simple present plushes, present participle plushing, simple past and past participle plushed)
- To give a soft, fluffy surface to.
- Green moss plushed the boulders that were stewn ^([sic]) about, reaching up to splash the cliffs with a velvet mantle.1946, Yosemite Nature Notes, page 52
Proper noun capitalized: Plush
Plush
plush meaning in Bengali, Malayalam, Kannada and Gujarati
plush in Bengali
- নরম ও বিলাসবহুল, প্লাশ
plush in Malayalam
- മൃദുവായ ശീല, കമ്പിളി, സൂര്യപടം
plush in Kannada
- ಅಮೂಲ್ಯವಾದ, ಬೆಲೆಬಾಳುವ, ಅನುಕೂಲವಾದ, ಸುಖಕೊಡುವ
plush in Gujarati
- પ્લશીંગ
Examples of plush in a sentence
- She was a family friend. I remember riding in her car as a child. It was an Oldsmobile and seemed a bit plush and expensive compared with our car.
- In fact, it’s the plush aspect that is arousing to them.
- "I had you pegged as the Romeo of some plush, private school."
Forms of plush
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | plusher |
| superlative | plushest |
| Noun | |
| plural | plushes |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | plushes |
| present participle | plushing |
| past participle | plushed |
| past | plushed |
Origin of plush
From French peluche (“fluff, plush”). The fact that historically (in past centuries) plush upholstery was so expensive as to be socially exclusive undoubtedly connects the senses of "luxurious" and "soft".
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Phrases with plush
Words that rhyme with plush
Questions about plush
- What does plush mean?
- Plush means very extravagant.
- What is plush in Bengali?
- Plush in Bengali is নরম ও বিলাসবহুল, প্লাশ. See Plush meaning in Bengali.
- What part of speech is plush?
- Plush can be an adjective, a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce plush?
- Plush is pronounced /plʌʃ/.
Words near plush in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: plush (page history and authors); Plush (page history and authors); plush (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); plush (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); plush (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); plush (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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