Lushington

English

Etymology 1

• English surname, recorded in Middle English as Lustinton, from Old English *Lusta (a personal name) + -ing + -tun.
• Also possibly after Lashenden in Kent, from Old English læc (“muddy stream”) (see leach) or læccan (“to trap”) + -ing + denn (“woodland pasture”).

Proper noun

Lushington (plural Lushingtons)

1. A surname.

Statistics

• According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Lushington is the 32143^rd most common surname in England, belonging to 110 individuals.

Etymology 2

A surname, used in allusion to lush. John Camden Hotten's Slang Dictionary (1873) mentions a Lushington Club in Bow Street, Covent Garden, London.

Alternative forms

• lushington

Noun

Lushington (plural Lushingtons)

1. (obsolete) Drink.
2. A drunk.
   • 1851, Henry Mayhew, “Of the Street-Sellers of Fish”, in London Labour and the London Poor:

     If they have any on hand, and a little stale, at the end of the week, they sell it at the public-houses to the “Lushingtons,” and to them, with plenty of vinegar, it goes down sweet.

   • 2016, Alan Moore, Jerusalem, Liveright, published 2016, page 173:

     His father and the thousand barroom-doors he'd popped his head round as a child when sent to find him. Small blood vessels ruptured in the cheeks of lushingtons, pressed on the chilly pillow of a curb.

Further reading

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Lushington”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 2, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 476.