plush

plush

See also: Plush

English

Etymology

From French peluche (“fluff, plush”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /plʌʃ/

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• Rhymes: -ʌʃ

Adjective

plush (comparative plusher, superlative plushest)

1. (UK) Very extravagant.
2. (UK) Very expensive, or appearing expensive; opulent, luxurious.

   They lived in a plush apartment complex.

3. (of a man-made object) Having a soft, fluffy exterior.

   This plush toy is so cute and soft - I want it!

Translations

having a soft, fluffy exterior

Bulgarian: плюшен (pljušen) Esperanto: pluŝa Finnish: nukkapintainen (fi), pehmeä (fi) Spanish: suave (es)

Noun

plush (countable and uncountable, plural plushes)

1. A textile fabric with a nap or shag on one side, longer and softer than the nap of velvet.
   • 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter X, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., OCLC 222716698:

     Mr. Cooke had had a sloop yacht built at Far Harbor, the completion of which had been delayed, and which was but just delivered. […] The Maria had a cabin, which was finished in hard wood and yellow plush, and accommodations for keeping things cold.

   • 1922, Margery Williams, The Velveteen Rabbit:

     That night the Boy slept in a different bedroom, and he had a new bunny to sleep with him. It was a splendid bunny, all white plush with real glass eyes, but the Boy was too excited to care very much about it.

2. A plush toy.
   • 2002, Billboard (volume 114, number 9, 2 March 2002, page 70)

     When Play Along — the holder of the Care Bears master toy license — placed Care Bears plushes in Spencer Gifts last year, tweens and teenage girls bought the toys.

   • 2008, Lionel Birglen, Thierry Laliberté, Clément M. Gosselin, Underactuated Robotic Hands (page 94)

     For a small fee, the player can control a crane equipped with a gripper to pick a gift, usually a plush or a small toy, and has to drop it in a place where he/she can grab it.

   • 2011, Bob Sehlinger, Menasha Ridge, Len Testa, The Unofficial Guide Walt Disney World 2012 (page 759)

     […] L.A. Prop Cinema Storage, full of kids' clothing (mostly for girls), PJs, and lots of toys and plushes (there's also a substantial infant area).

Translations

textile fabric

Belarusian: плюш m (pljuš) Bulgarian: плюш m (pljuš) Chinese: Mandarin: 長毛絨／长毛绒 (zh) (chángmáoróng) Czech: plyš (cs) m Dutch: pluche (nl) n Esperanto: pluŝo Estonian: plüüš Finnish: plyysikangas, teddykangas French: peluche (fr) f Galician: felpa f German: Plüsch (de) m Hungarian: plüss (hu) Japanese: フラシテン (purashi-ten), フラシ天 (purashi-ten) Lombard: pelusc (lmo) m Korean: 플러시 (peulleosi) Polish: plusz (pl) m Portuguese: peluche (pt) f (Portugal), pelúcia (pt) f (Brazil) Romanian: pluș (ro) m Russian: плюш (ru) m (pljuš) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: плиш m Roman: pliš (sh) m Spanish: felpa (es) f Swedish: plysch (sv) c Turkish: pelüş (tr) Ukrainian: плюш m (pljuš) Yiddish: פּליוש‎ m (plyush)

toy — see plush toy

Derived terms

• plushen
• plushie
• plushly
• plushness
• plushophile
• plushophilia
• plushy

Anagrams

• Puhls, sulph-