1. Flowing profusely
   "a gushing hydrant";
   - pouring
    
2. Uttered with unrestrained enthusiasm
   "The child's gushing laughter filled the room";
   - burbling, burbly, effusive
    
3. Extravagantly demonstrative
   "a large gushing female";
   - effusive, gushy

1. Eject or flow forcefully in a stream
   "Water gushed from the broken pipe";
   - spurt, spirt [archaic], spout
    
2. Praise enthusiastically
   "She gushed about that new restaurant";
   - rave, enthuse, kvell [N. Amer, informal]

See also: demonstrative, full of life, lively, running, vital

Type of: pour, praise

Encyclopedia: Gushing