English
gush
Gush comes from Middle English guschen.
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500guschen
- Englishearliest quotation 1590gush
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500guschen
- Englishearliest quotation 1590gush
Earliest quotation: 1590, Edmund Spenser, Book I, Canto VIII: “Large streames of bloud out of the truncked stocke…”
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰew- ‘to pour’
god, chemist, futile, giddy, futility, geyser, ingot, gust, 23 more
Today it means
noun A sudden rapid outflow.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Middle English guschen / gush