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Gushing English females with us four last to leave (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

effusive

'gushing' is the definition.
(I know that gushing can be written as effusive)

'english females with us four last to leave' is the wordplay.
'english' becomes 'e' (abbreviation).
'females' becomes 'ff' (the abbreviation for female repeated).
'with' says to put letters next to each other.
'four' becomes 'IV' (Roman numerals).
'last to' indicates one should take the final letters.
The last letter of 'leave' is 'e'.
'e'+'ff'+'us'+'iv'+'e'='EFFUSIVE'

(Other definitions for effusive that I've seen before include "Two-wheeler" , "Gushingly emotive" , "lyrical" , "Gushingly emotional" , "Verbally gushing" .)

I've seen this clue in The Daily Mail.
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