1819. J. H. VAUX, Memoirs, 188, s.v.
1821. D. HAGGART, Life, 33. We met with a drover, quite LUSHY.
1821. The Fancy, I, p. 303. At the Goat, as aforementioned, Ben Burn and Randall being both a little LUSHY.
1828. MAGINN, from VIDOCQ, The Pickpocket’s Chaunt.
| With his smeller, a trumpet blowing, | |
| A regular swell cove LUSHY lay; | |
| To his clies my hooks I throw in, | |
| Tol, lol, etc. |
1836. DICKENS, Pickwick Papers, xx. I was so uncommon LUSHY, that I couldn’t find the place where the latch-key went in, and was obliged to knock up the old ’ooman.
1878. C. HINDLEY, The Life and Adventures of a Cheap Jack, 57. A LUSHY cove.
