plush

From French peluche (“fluff, plush”).

• IPA^(key): /plʌʃ/
• Rhymes: -ʌʃ

plush (comparative plusher, superlative plushest)

1. (Britain) Very extravagant.
2. (Britain) Very expensive, or appearing expensive.

   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!

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.
   • 1898, Winston Churchill, chapter 10, in The Celebrity:

     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).

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

• Puhls, sulph-