Gushing

gushing
    adj 1: flowing profusely; "a gushing hydrant"; "pouring flood
           waters" [syn: {gushing}, {pouring}]
    2: uttered with unrestrained enthusiasm; "a novel told in burbly
       panting tones" [syn: {burbling}, {burbly}, {effusive},
       {gushing}]
    3: extravagantly demonstrative; "insincere and effusive
       demonstrations of sentimental friendship"; "a large gushing
       female"; "write unrestrained and gushy poetry" [syn:
       {effusive}, {gushing(a)}, {gushy}]
    

Gushing \Gush"ing\, a.
   1. Rushing forth with violence, as a fluid; flowing
      copiously; as, gushing waters. "Gushing blood." --Milton.
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   2. Emitting copiously, as tears or words; weakly and
      unreservedly demonstrative in matters of affection;
      sentimental. [Colloq.]
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Gush \Gush\ (g[u^]sh), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Gushed} (g[u^]sht);
   p. pr. & vb. n. {Gushing}.] [OE. guschen, cf. Icel. gusa and
   gjsa, also D. gucsen; perh. akin to AS. ge['o]tan to pour, G.
   giessen, Goth. giutan, E. gut. Cf. {Found} to cast.]
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   1. To issue with violence and rapidity, as a fluid; to rush
      forth as a fluid from confinement; to flow copiously.
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            He smote the rock that the waters gushed out. --Ps
                                                  ixxviii 20.
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            A sea of blood gushed from the gaping wound.
                                                  --Spenser.
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   2. To make a sentimental or untimely exhibition of affection;
      to display enthusiasm in a silly, demonstrative manner.
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146 Moby Thesaurus words for "gushing":
      abundance, abundant, adulatory, affluent, amplitude, bathetic,
      beery, bland, blandishing, blarneying, buttery, cajoling,
      cloud of words, cloying, complimentary, confluent, copious,
      copiousness, coursing, courtierly, courtly, decurrent, defluent,
      diffluent, diffuse, diffuseness, diffusion, diffusive,
      diffusiveness, effusion, effusive, effusiveness, extravagance,
      extravagant, exuberance, exuberant, fair-spoken, fawning, fecund,
      fecundity, fertility, fine-spoken, flattering, flowing, fluency,
      fluent, fluxional, fluxive, formless, formlessness, fulsome, gooey,
      gulfy, gush, gushy, honey-mouthed, honey-tongued, honeyed,
      insincere, insinuating, logorrhea, macrology, maudlin, mawkish,
      mazy, mealymouthed, meandering, mushy, namby-pamby, nostalgic,
      nostomanic, obsequious, oily, oily-tongued, outpour, overflow,
      overflowing, oversentimental, oversentimentalized, palilogy,
      pleonasm, pleonastic, pouring, prodigal, prodigality, productive,
      productivity, profluent, profuse, profuseness, profusion,
      profusive, prolific, prolificacy, prolificity, racing, rampancy,
      rankness, redundancy, redundant, reiteration, reiterative,
      reiterativeness, repetition for effect, repetitive, repetitiveness,
      romantic, running, rushing, sappy, sentimental, sentimentalized,
      serpentine, slimy, slobbering, slobbery, sloppy, sluggish, smarmy,
      smooth, smooth-spoken, smooth-tongued, soapy, soft, soft-soaping,
      sticky, streaming, superabundance, superabundant, superfluity,
      superflux, surging, surgy, sycophantic, talkativeness, tautologous,
      tautology, tear-jerking, teary, teeming, teemingness, tidal,
      tirade, unctuous, vortical, wheedling