Luscious

First Name
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in the U.S.
since 1880

Last Name
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in the U.S.
in 2010

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Webster's Unabridged Dictionary

adjective Lus"cious

Senses

Sweet; delicious; very grateful to the taste; toothsome; excessively sweet or rich."And raisins keep their luscious, native taste." [Dryden.]
Cloying; fulsome."He had a tedious, luscious way of talking." [Jeffrey.]
Gratifying a depraved sense; obscene.(R)

Etymology: Prob. for lustious, fr. lusty, or perh. a corruption of luxurious. Cf. Lush Lusty

Other Dictionary Sources

Having strong sexual appeal
Synonyms: juicy, lush, red-hot, toothsome, and voluptuous
Extremely pleasing to the sense of taste
Synonyms: delectable, delicious, pleasant-tasting, scrumptious, toothsome, and yummy

Wiktionary

From earlier lushious, lussyouse (“luscious, richly sweet, delicious”), a corruption of *lustious, from lusty (“pleasant, delicious”) +‎ -ous. Shakespeare uses both lush (short for lushious) and lusty in the selfsame sense: 'How lush and lusty the grass looks'. —Temp. ii. I.52. See also lush, lusty.

Alternative etymology connects luscious to a Middle English term: lucius, an alteration of licious, believed to be a shortening of delicious. See delicious.

Notable Persons With the Last Name Luscious

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Simply Luscious is a wrestler. Simply was born in San Antonio, Texas, US.

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Fun Facts about the name Luscious

How Popular is the name Luscious? Luscious is the 82,746^th most popular name of all time.
How many people with the first name Luscious have been born in the United States? From 1880 to 2017, the Social Security Administration has recorded 6 babies born with the first name Luscious in the United States.
What year were 5 or more babies first named Luscious? The name was first given to 5 or more babies in the year 1986 when it was given as a first name to 6 new born babies.
When was Luscious first recorded in the United States? The oldest recorded birth by the Social Security Administration for the first name Luscious is Wednesday, April 19th, 1882.
What year had the most people named Luscious born? The highest recorded use of the first name Luscious was in 1986 with a total of 6 babies.
Weird things about the name Luscious: Your name in reverse order is Suoicsul. A random rearrangement of the letters in your name (anagram) will give Slsuiocu. How do you pronounce that?

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Sources:
U.S. Census Bureau: Frequently Occurring Surnames from the Census 2000 (public domain).
U.S. Social Security Administration: Popular Baby Names, Death Master File (public domain).
1913 Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary via the Collaborative International Dictionary of English (License)
Other Dictionary Sources: WordNet 3.1 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University (License).
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