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mush

noun
/mʌʃ/UK/mʊʃ/US

Etymology

Probably a variant of mash, or from a dialectal variant of Middle English mos (“mush, pulp, porridge”); compare Middle English appelmos (“applesauce”), from Old English mōs (“food, victuals, porridge, mush”), from Proto-West Germanic *mōs, from Proto-Germanic *mōsą (“porridge, food”), from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂d- (“wet, fat, dripping”). Cognate with Scots moosh (“mush”), Dutch moes (“pulp, mush, porridge”), German Mus (“jam, puree, mush”), Swedish mos (“pulp, mash, mush”).

  1. derived from *markōną✻ — “to mark; to notice”
  2. derived from *markōn✻
  3. derived from marchier
  4. derived from marcher
  5. derived from marche

Definitions

  1. A somewhat liquid mess, often of food

    A somewhat liquid mess, often of food; a soft or semisolid substance.

    • His food is of the coarsest kind, consisting for the most part of cornmeal mush, which often finds its way from the wooden tray to his mouth in an oyster shell.

  2. A mixture of noise produced by the harmonics of continuous-wave stations.

  3. The foam of a breaker.

    • And Rincon was all about surfing. Flash back thirty-odd years, to a skinny kid on a Styrofoam belly-board, pin-wheeling out into the mush of Jacksonville Beach, Florida.
  4. ›+ 17 more definitions

    1. A magmatic body containing a significant proportion of crystals suspended in the liquid…

      A magmatic body containing a significant proportion of crystals suspended in the liquid phase or melt.

    2. A gun.

      • Do you want me to back out the mush, bruv?

    3. To squish so as to break into smaller pieces or to combine with something else.

      • He mushed the ingredients together.
      • One must compartmentalize one's life and not let different facets/experiences mush over into one another.

    4. A food comprising cracked or rolled grains cooked in water or milk

      A food comprising cracked or rolled grains cooked in water or milk; porridge.

    5. Cornmeal cooked in water and served as a porridge or as a thick sidedish like grits or…

      Cornmeal cooked in water and served as a porridge or as a thick sidedish like grits or mashed potatoes.

      • However, they did make and sometimes even bake cornmeal mushes that could be either sweetened or fortified with fat.

    6. A directive given (usually to dogs or a horse) to start moving, or to move faster.

    7. A walk, especially across the snow with dogs.

    8. To walk, especially across the snow with dogs.

    9. To drive dogs, usually pulling a sled, across the snow.

      • Together the two men loaded and lashed the sled. They warmed their hands for the last time, pulled on their mittens, and mushed the dogs over the bank and down to the river-trail.

    10. A magic mushroom.

    11. (US, slang, chiefly Nonantum) A form of address, normally to a man.

      • Oy mush, come over here and gimme a hand with the motor.
      • "Hey, Mush!" Tony Pellegrino called to Michael standing on the other side of the street.

    12. The face.

    13. A cab driver who is the owner of their cab, and sometimes a small number of other cabs as…

      A cab driver who is the owner of their cab, and sometimes a small number of other cabs as well; a musher.

    14. To notch, cut, or indent (cloth, etc.) with a stamp.

    15. A historically Armenian city in the Turuberan province of Greater Armenia, now in eastern…

      A historically Armenian city in the Turuberan province of Greater Armenia, now in eastern Turkey.

    16. A province of Turkey.

    17. A form of multi-user dungeon, often used for online social intercourse and role-playing…

      A form of multi-user dungeon, often used for online social intercourse and role-playing games.

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Derived

Toby mush

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for mush. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA