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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
abundance, abundant, adulatory, affluent, amplitude, bathetic, beery, bland, blandishing, blarneying, buttery, cajoling, cloud of words, cloying, complimentary, confluent, copious, copiousness, coursing, courtierly, courtly, decurrent, defluent, diffluent, diffuse, diffuseness, diffusion, diffusive, diffusiveness, effusion, effusive, effusiveness, extravagance, extravagant, exuberance, exuberant, fair-spoken, fawning, fecund, fecundity, fertility, fine-spoken, flattering, flowing, fluency, fluent, fluxional, fluxive, formless, formlessness, fulsome, gooey, gulfy, gush, gushy, honey-mouthed, honey-tongued, honeyed, insincere, insinuating, logorrhea, macrology, maudlin, mawkish, mazy, mealymouthed, meandering, mushy, namby-pamby, nostalgic, nostomanic, obsequious, oily, oily-tongued, outpour, overflow, overflowing, oversentimental, oversentimentalized, palilogy, pleonasm, pleonastic, pouring, prodigal, prodigality, productive, productivity, profluent, profuse, profuseness, profusion, profusive, prolific, prolificacy, prolificity, racing, rampancy, rankness, redundancy, redundant, reiteration, reiterative, reiterativeness, repetition for effect, repetitive, repetitiveness, romantic, running, rushing, sappy, sentimental, sentimentalized, serpentine, slimy, slobbering, slobbery, sloppy, sluggish, smarmy, smooth, smooth-spoken, smooth-tongued, soapy, soft, soft-soaping, sticky, streaming, superabundance, superabundant, superfluity, superflux, surging, surgy, sycophantic, talkativeness, tautologous, tautology, tear-jerking, teary, teeming, teemingness, tidal, tirade, unctuous, vortical, wheedling
Dictionary Results for gushing:
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
gushing
    adj 1: flowing profusely; "a gushing hydrant"; "pouring flood
           waters" [syn: gushing, pouring]
    2: uttered with unrestrained enthusiasm; "a novel told in burbly
       panting tones" [syn: burbling, burbly, effusive,
       gushing]
    3: extravagantly demonstrative; "insincere and effusive
       demonstrations of sentimental friendship"; "a large gushing
       female"; "write unrestrained and gushy poetry" [syn:
       effusive, gushing(a), gushy]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Gush \Gush\ (g[u^]sh), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Gushed (g[u^]sht);
   p. pr. & vb. n. Gushing.] [OE. guschen, cf. Icel. gusa and
   gjsa, also D. gucsen; perh. akin to AS. ge['o]tan to pour, G.
   giessen, Goth. giutan, E. gut. Cf. Found to cast.]
   [1913 Webster]
   1. To issue with violence and rapidity, as a fluid; to rush
      forth as a fluid from confinement; to flow copiously.
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            He smote the rock that the waters gushed out. --Ps
                                                  ixxviii 20.
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            A sea of blood gushed from the gaping wound.
                                                  --Spenser.
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   2. To make a sentimental or untimely exhibition of affection;
      to display enthusiasm in a silly, demonstrative manner.
      [Colloq.]
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Gushing \Gush"ing\, a.
   1. Rushing forth with violence, as a fluid; flowing
      copiously; as, gushing waters. "Gushing blood." --Milton.
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   2. Emitting copiously, as tears or words; weakly and
      unreservedly demonstrative in matters of affection;
      sentimental. [Colloq.]
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