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plushy

American  
[pluhsh-ee] / ˈplʌʃ i /

adjective

plushier, plushiest
  1. of, relating to, or resembling plush.

  2. Informal. characterized by luxury, wealth, or ease.

    a plushy resort.


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Origin of plushy

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

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There’s 1X with it’s plushy gray Neo and Sunday Robotics with its baseball-cap wearing Memo.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 27, 2025

In Kuta, a popular town in Mandalika, scrappy surfers' hostels have been replaced by a mosaic of chlorinated pools and plushy sunbeds, and an international school for the children of expats.

From BBC • Oct. 18, 2025

“They’ll still be soft and plushy, but it cuts down on the hair floating around the house,” he says.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 22, 2024

The control batch yielded a thick and chewy cookie with a satisfying crunch on the exterior from turbinado sugar and a plushy interior.

From Salon • Jan. 21, 2023

And now at last they were free, Forbes and Persis, cantering along a plushy road, a lovers' lane that mounted up and up till they paused at the height to give the horses breath.

From What Will People Say? A novel by Hughes, Rupert

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