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say it: GUHSH-ing
gushing is an adjective meaning "flowing profusely". It is pronounced /ˈɡʌʃɪŋ/ — GUHSH-ing. It carries 3 recorded senses.
extravagantly demonstrative
“insincere and effusive demonstrations of sentimental friendship”
“a large gushing female”
“write unrestrained and gushy poetry”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for gushing come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.