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This week's theme Fabric words used metaphorically This week's words tweedy flannel woolly cotton plushy Today's word in Visual Thesaurus This week's mail AWADmail Next week's theme Words derived from numbers Missed a word? Check the archives chronological alphabetical thematic or search the site Discuss Feedback RSS/XML A.Word.A.Day with Anu Garg plushy PRONUNCIATION: (PLUSH-ee) MEANING: adjective: 1. Characterized by luxury, extravagance, or ease. 2. Or or related to plush: soft and shaggy. ETYMOLOGY: From plush, a fabric of silk, rayon, cotton, or wool, having a long pile. From French pluche, a variant of peluche, from Latin pilus (hair). USAGE: "The warm, dark glow and plushy tone so typical of Central European orchestras from the late 19th century on seems steeped in the Staatskapelle's bones." Wynne Delacoma; Staatskapelle Berlin at Symphony Center; Chicago Sun-Times; Dec 12, 2000. "But since Hugo left university in June, he has not strolled into the sort of plushy job that supposedly awaits our hordes of upper-second graduates when they roar onto the job market." Rachel Johnson; Graduates Get Jobs -- But No Pay; The Daily Telegraph (London, UK); Dec 5, 2003. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: At the bottom of a good deal of the bravery that appears in the world there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they cannot face public opinion. -Edwin Hubbel Chapin, minister and orator (1814-1880)

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