plushy

[ pluhsh-ee ]

adjective

, plush·i·er, plush·i·est.

1. of, relating to, or resembling plush.
2. Informal. characterized by luxury, wealth, or ease:

   a plushy resort.

Other Words From

• plushi·ness noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of plushy¹

First recorded in 1605–15; plush + -y ¹

Example Sentences

NASA will also load a Snoopy plushy—the zero-gravity indicator, which will float when the rocket is in space—and a Shaun the Sheep doll that’ll ride with the mannequins around the moon and back.

From Popular-Science

The top band padding is a little thin, but the cups are plenty plushy, creating a tight, but cozy space for your ears.

From Popular-Science

A word whose customary feeling-tone is too unquestioningly accepted becomes a plushy bit of furniture, a cliché.

From Project Gutenberg

They had a table to themselves in a corner of the plushy dining-room, where they could talk unheard and observe unobserved.

From Project Gutenberg

He had fallen into country house parties before, but never into quite such a plushy sense of riches.

From Project Gutenberg

It was amusing to see him thrusting his eager little beezer between the vast, soft, plushy flanks of two patrolmen.

From Project Gutenberg

Out of the depths of her dripping hair and her big plushy bath-towel little Eve Edgarton considered her father only casually.

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