plush

From French peluche (“fluff, plush”).

• IPA^(key): /plʌʃ/

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• Rhymes: -ʌʃ

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

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

• plush animal
• plush toy

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:

     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.

   • 1921 June, Margery Williams, “The Velveteen Rabbit: Or How Toys Become Real”, in Harper’s Bazar, volume LVI, number 6 (2504 overall), New York, N.Y.: International Magazine Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 108, column 4:

     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 March 2, Billboard, volume 114, number 9, 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).

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

• Puhls, sulph-