_Lush_ may owe something to Mr Lushington, something to the earlier English _lush_, or rosy, and something to the Gipsy and Sanskrit.

It is not at all unlikely that the word _codger_ owes, through _cadger_, a part of its being to _kid_, a basket, as Mr Halliwell suggests (Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, 1852), and yet come quite as directly from _gorger_ or _gorgio_.

"The cheese" probably has the Gipsy-Hidustani _chiz_ for a father, and the French _chose_ for a mother, while both originally sprung thousands of years ago in the great parting of the Aryan nations, to be united after so long a separation in a distant island in the far northern seas.
The etymologist who hesitates to adopt this principle of joint sources of derivation, will find abundant instances of something very like it in many English Gipsy words themselves, which, as belonging to a language in extreme decay, have been formed directly from different, but somewhat similarly sounding, words, in the parent German or Eastern Rommany.

Thus, _schukker_, pretty; _bi-shukker_, slow; _tschukko_, dry, and _tschororanes_, secretly, have in England all united in _shukar_, which expresses all of their meanings..