gush

/gəʃ/

/gəʃ/

Other forms: gushing; gushed; gushes

On hot summer days, city kids will sometimes open a fire hydrant and let the water gush into the street. Things that gush come streaming out.

Water can gush out of a hose or a drinking fountain, and you can also call the jet of water itself a gush. A more figurative way to gush is to talk enthusiastically about something — you might gush when you're describing your favorite teacher. Gush comes from the twelfth century English word gosshien, originally "make noises in the stomach," and later "pour out." Gush is an onomatopoeic word — it sounds like what it means.

Definitions of gush

1. verb

   gush forth in a sudden stream or jet
   “water gushed forth”

   synonyms: spirt, spout, spurt

   types:

   pump

   flow intermittently

   blow

   spout moist air from the blowhole

   whoosh

   gush or squirt out

   type of:

   pour

   flow in a spurt
2. verb

   issue in a jet; come out in a jet; stream or spring forth
   synonyms: jet

   type of:

   course, feed, flow, run

   move along, of liquids
3. verb

   praise enthusiastically
   synonyms: rave

   type of:

   praise

   express approval of
4. noun

   a sudden rapid flow (as of water)
   “there was a little gush of blood”

   synonyms: flush, outpouring

   types:

   springtide

   a swelling rush of anything

   type of:

   flow, flowing

   the motion characteristic of fluids (liquids or gases)
5. noun

   an unrestrained expression of emotion
   synonyms: blowup, ebullition, effusion, outburst

   types:

   acting out

   a (usually irritating) impulsive and uncontrollable outburst by a problem child or a neurotic adult

   cry

   a fit of weeping

   explosion

   a sudden outburst

   flare

   a sudden outburst of emotion

   type of:

   expression, manifestation, reflection, reflexion

   expression without words