aflush

adjective

ə-ˈfləsh

: fully or generously supplied with something : flush

Pat Pourchot, whose philosophical abstinence from fishing has until now been consistent, is suddenly aflush with temptation.

—John McPhee, Coming into the Country, 1976

Word History

Etymology

a- entry 1 + flush entry 6

First Known Use

1867, in the meaning defined above

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