Word.ws English Dictionary

zhooshy

zhooshy adjective: showy, flashy, ornate.

Adjective

zhooshy (comparative zhooshier, superlative zhooshiest)

  1. (Australia, New Zealand, UK, slang) Showy, flashy, ornate.
    • First to catch out eye are the zhooshy ombre coloured cushions, Stravklint, and duvet set, Pipstakra but that's just the tip of the flatpack iceberg.2019 July 31, Kylie Klein-Nixon, “Ikea: Five things in the 2020 catalogue we hope to buy in New Zealand”, in Stuff

Forms of zhooshy

comparativezhooshier
superlativezhooshiest
alternative formjujy
alternative formzhoozhy
alternative formzhushy
alternative formzhuzhy

Origin of zhooshy

From zhoosh + -y.

Questions about zhooshy

What does zhooshy mean?
Zhooshy means showy, flashy, ornate.
What part of speech is zhooshy?
Zhooshy is an adjective.

Words near zhooshy in the dictionary

  1. zhooshed
  2. zhooshes
  3. zhooshier
  4. zhooshiest
  5. zhooshing
  6. zhooshy
  7. zhoozh
  8. zhoozhed
  9. zhoozhes
  10. zhoozhing
  11. Zhora

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: zhooshy (page history and authors). 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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “zhooshy.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/zhooshy. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.