Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A thick porridge or pudding of cornmeal boiled in water or milk.
- n. Something thick, soft, and pulpy.
- n. Informal Mawkish sentimentality, affection, or amorousness.
- v. To reduce to mush; mash or crush.
- v. To travel, especially over snow with a dogsled.
- v. To drive (a dogsled or team of dogs).
- n. A journey, especially by dogsled.
- interj. Used to command a team of dogs to begin pulling or move faster.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Anything mashed.
- n. Meal boiled in water or milk until it forms a thick, soft mass: as, oatmeal mush; mush and milk; specifically, such a preparation made from Indian corn; hasty-pudding.
- n. Something resembling mush, as being soft and pulpy: as, mush of mud.
- n. Fish ground up; chum; pomace; stosh.
- n. Dust; dusty refuse.
- n. The best kind of iron ore.
- To nick or notch (dress-fabrics) round the edges with a stamp, for ornament.
- To reduce to a mush or a pulp, or to a pulverized condition; pulverize; crush.
- To become reduced to a pulverized condition; crumble; waste away.
- To trudge or travel through the snow, while driving a dog-sled. See mushing and musher.
Wiktionary
- n. Quebecois English, slang magic mushrooms
- n. A food comprising cracked or rolled grains cooked in water or milk; porridge.
- n. rural USA cornmeal cooked in water and served as a porridge or as a thick sidedish like grits or mashed potatoes.
- n. UK, primarily Southern England, slang A form of address to a man.
- n. UK, primarily Northern England, slang The face
- v. transitive To notch, cut, or indent (cloth, etc.) with a stamp.
- n. uncountable A mess, often of food; a soft or semisolid substance.
- v. To squish so as to break into smaller pieces or to combine with something else.
- interj. A directive given (usually to dogs or a horse) to start moving, or to move faster.
- n. A walk, especially across the snow with dogs.
- v. intransitive To walk, especially across the snow with dogs.
- v. transitive To drive dogs, usually pulling a sled, across the snow.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. U.S. Meal (esp. Indian meal) boiled in water; hasty pudding; supawn.
- v. To notch, cut, or indent, as cloth, with a stamp.
- n. Colloq., Alaska & Northwestern U. S. A march on foot, esp. across the snow with dogs; ; -- also used attributively.
- v. To travel on foot, esp. across the snow with dogs.
WordNet 3.0
- v. travel with a dogsled
- v. drive (a team of dogs or a dogsled)
- n. a journey by dogsled
- n. any soft or soggy mass
- n. writing or music that is excessively sweet and sentimental
- n. cornmeal boiled in water
Etymologies
- 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-Germanic *mōsan (“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"). See also moose. (Wiktionary)
- Probably alteration of mash.Possibly alteration of French marchons, first person pl. imperative of marcher, to walk, go, from Old French; see march1. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
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“Discuss until your prune mush is digested and excreted.”
“The mush is cast into loaves and allowed to cool thoroughly until gelled.”
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘mush’.
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UK - slang
fanny, nick, mufti, siphon, mug, smashing, butcher, stick up, knocker, porridge, tit, punter and 208 more...
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2nd part
prelude, ample, escalate, prototype, accession, acquisition, archives, zealot, indict, verdict, intimidating, timid and 454 more...
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common UA vocab. in US
Interesting, there is a traditional vocabulary of an Ukrainian, that differs from vocabulary of average American. It would be nice to explore it.
jackdaw, incongruous, cassock, vivid, magpie, humdrum, amongst, wonder, wandering, wheedling, wheedle, osseous and 368 more...
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Fictional music genres
fudgepunk, whangboogie, electrogush, jizzbilly, glambient, queasy listening, chip shop, baroque'n'roll, prog folk, chemo, riant grrl, blingfolk and 584 more...
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Pease Porridge Hot
List of terms for porridge dishes made from seeds, grains, legumes, etc. from around the world.
See mollusque's list More gruel?.
mush, oatmeal, frumenty, pinhead oatmeal, porridge, grits, atole, gruel, shuco, polenta, gofio, kachamak and 69 more...
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Words for ice and snow
Environmental Ice and Snow
(excluding all the food ice)ice, icicle, frazil, frasil, sleet, slush, snow, flurry, snowfall, freeze, flash-freeze, quick-freeze and 618 more...
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huck finnian
ain't, stretchers, without, sivilize, hogshead, victuals, bulrushers, tolerable, goggles, middling, reckoned, who-whooing and 287 more...
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Words next
patrimony, cacophony, fearsome, coruscating, coruscating, coruscating, dolomite, dolorous, transdermal, chatty cathy, chatterbox, incessantly and 249 more...
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botheyesgreen's Words
joy, coriander, mandarine, avocado, strawberry, peach, hobgoblin, malfeasance, saturation, bourbon, hoopoe, quango and 22 more...
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Sled Dogs!
malamute, husky, wheel dog, lead dog, gee, haw, sled, line, hike, mush, on by, gang line and 31 more...
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Prattle Words
"I like quesadillas!" All the fun words for the non-stop babbler's vocabulary.
quesadilla, tintinnabulation, cacophony, obliterate, miff, melancholy, technobabble, plump, onomatomania, quaternary, pizzazz, confuzzle and 15 more...
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Journeys
Unexpected or not. :)
journey, pilgrimage, voyage, trek, tour, excursion, trip, jaunt, hadj, haj, schlep, junket and 57 more...
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Ugly Words
Words that are visually, sonically, or by definition unpleasant.
kumquat, squat, poke, vomit, chunk, globule, phlegm, sac, armpit, crotch, fecund, fecal and 26 more...
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hilart's list
oodle, tat, crock, poious, collateral, mush, tryst, shit, crass, sassy, sucks, bored and 20 more...
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Umbrellas and parasols
umbrella, parasol, quitasole, kittisol, gamp, brolly, parapluie, mushroom, mush, umbrel, sunshade, roundel and 22 more...
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More gruel?
gruel, porridge, oatmeal, grits, hominy, samp, mush, brose, burgoo, maypo, frumenty, stirabout and 29 more...
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