Crossword clues for lusty
lusty
- Healthy - strong
- Hale and hearty
- Strong and healthy
- Filled with passion
- Healthy and vigorous
- Characterized by heathy vigor
- Showing great passion
- Powerful, as a singing voice
- Like Mae West's persona
- Healthy — strong
- Full of vigour
- Full of strength and energy
- Consumed with carnal desire
- Adjective for literature's Tom Jones
- Spirited
- Hot-blooded
- Like Rabelaisian writing
- Robust — vigorous
- Red-blooded
- Stout
- Very passionate
- Full of vigor
- Like Petruchio's wench in "The Taming of the Shrew"
- Full of passion
- Vigorous
- Vigorous but out of practice, needing a change of hands
- Out of practice? Left for run, becoming vigorous
- Healthy, strong
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Lusty \Lust"y\, a. [Compar. Lustier; superl. Lustiest.]
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Exhibiting lust or vigor; stout; strong; vigorous; robust; healthful; able of body.
Neither would their old men, so many as were yet vigorous and lusty, be left at home.
--Milton. Beautiful; handsome; pleasant. [Obs.]
--Spenser.Of large size; big. [Obs.] ``Three lusty vessels.''
--Evelyn. Hence, sometimes, pregnant. [Obs. or Prov.]Lustful; lascivious. [Obs.]
--Milton.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 13c., "joyful, merry," from lust + -y (2). It largely has escaped the Christianization and denigration of its root word. The sense of "full of healthy vigor" is from late 14c.; that of "full of desire" is attested from c.1400. Related: Lustily; lustiness.
Wiktionary
a. 1 strong, healthy and vigorous. 2 hearty and enthusiastic. 3 (context informal proscribed English) Given to experiencing lust; enjoying physical sensations.
WordNet
adj. vigorously passionate [syn: lustful]
endowed with or exhibiting great bodily or mental health; "a hearty glow of health" [syn: hearty, full-blooded, red-blooded]
Wikipedia
Lusty may refer to:
- Operation Lusty, a non-combat military operation
- Robert Lusty (1909-1991), British journalist and publisher
- HMS Illustrious (R06), a light aircraft carrier of the Royal Navy
Usage examples of "lusty".
His days without a shirt in the sun of Bonheur had given him a definite demarcation line between torso and lower body, so that he seemed like some mythical creature, half lusty inhabitant of the heated day and half ethereal being of the moonlit night.
Memories of those darkless midsummer nights brought back his lusty good humor.
However, I did not cultivate them, as they only offered me the pleasures of sentiment, while I longed for lustier fare for which I was willing to pay heavily.
Lusty shouts rang out as men indulged in a game of toss-the-ball in the more bracing frigidarium adjoining.
Until Hazan and the women were hard pressed to keep up with the various desires of all the lusty, thirsty sailors.
Lusty of Covent Garden, hilsa fish in tamarind sauce, chicken served with many vegetable dishes and a platter of rice, and a towering sugary model of the Taj Mahal accompanied by a mango water ice.
Zarys of Zar, and to the ferocious and lusty descendant of Khair ud-Din of Algiers!
Housebreaking the lusty Lache would be a chore for an experienced woman.
But what was a man to do when presented with a mewling, backward daughter who was twin to a fine, lusty boy?
Sure enough, Cap, who had announced his approach by a couple of lusty hems, now made his appearance on the bastion, where, after nodding to his neice and her companion, he made a deliberate survey of the expanse of water before him.
Nor was Don Juan Ponce in need of any such cure for himself, I assure you, for in the year 1504 he was just thirty years old, a lusty and aggressive man of fiery and restless spirit, and red-haired as well, and you know what is said about the virility of red-haired men.
Indian men and one woman, that had piloted the canoe from Ashley river, having hired a Sewee Indian, a tall, lusty fellow, who carried a pack of our clothes, of great weight.
This birthing had been difficult, for the child was large and his wife was no longer young, but the new babe was hale and lusty, if disappointingly unlike Sief in appearance.
Thus unto a hangman we did of late sell a hangman, in fair good halter, and he a hangman brawny, for no more than five gold pieces, the which was cheap, methinks, considering the goodly halter, and he a lusty, manly rogue to boot.
The lusty knight, on the other hand, was clad in the very latest mode, with cote-hardie, doublet, pourpoint, court-pie, and paltock of olive-green, picked out with pink and jagged at the edges.