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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A thick porridge or pudding of cornmeal boiled in water or milk.
  2. n. Something thick, soft, and pulpy.
  3. n. Informal Mawkish sentimentality, affection, or amorousness.
  4. v. To reduce to mush; mash or crush.
  5. v. To travel, especially over snow with a dogsled.
  6. v. To drive (a dogsled or team of dogs).
  7. n. A journey, especially by dogsled.
  8. interj. Used to command a team of dogs to begin pulling or move faster.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. Anything mashed.
  2. 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.
  3. n. Something resembling mush, as being soft and pulpy: as, mush of mud.
  4. n. Fish ground up; chum; pomace; stosh.
  5. n. Dust; dusty refuse.
  6. n. The best kind of iron ore.
  7. To nick or notch (dress-fabrics) round the edges with a stamp, for ornament.
  8. To reduce to a mush or a pulp, or to a pulverized condition; pulverize; crush.
  9. To become reduced to a pulverized condition; crumble; waste away.
  10. To trudge or travel through the snow, while driving a dog-sled. See mushing and musher.

Wiktionary

  1. n. Quebecois English, slang magic mushrooms
  2. n. A food comprising cracked or rolled grains cooked in water or milk; porridge.
  3. n. rural USA cornmeal cooked in water and served as a porridge or as a thick sidedish like grits or mashed potatoes.
  4. n. UK, primarily Southern England, slang A form of address to a man.
  5. n. UK, primarily Northern England, slang The face
  6. v. transitive To notch, cut, or indent (cloth, etc.) with a stamp.
  7. n. uncountable A mess, often of food; a soft or semisolid substance.
  8. v. To squish so as to break into smaller pieces or to combine with something else.
  9. interj. A directive given (usually to dogs or a horse) to start moving, or to move faster.
  10. n. A walk, especially across the snow with dogs.
  11. v. intransitive To walk, especially across the snow with dogs.
  12. v. transitive To drive dogs, usually pulling a sled, across the snow.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. U.S. Meal (esp. Indian meal) boiled in water; hasty pudding; supawn.
  2. v. To notch, cut, or indent, as cloth, with a stamp.
  3. n. Colloq., Alaska & Northwestern U. S. A march on foot, esp. across the snow with dogs; ; -- also used attributively.
  4. v. To travel on foot, esp. across the snow with dogs.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. travel with a dogsled
  2. v. drive (a team of dogs or a dogsled)
  3. n. a journey by dogsled
  4. n. any soft or soggy mass
  5. n. writing or music that is excessively sweet and sentimental
  6. n. cornmeal boiled in water

Etymologies

  1. 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)
  2. 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)

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  • bilby Acronym - multi-user shared hallucination (roleplay gaming for multiple users).
    Feb 1, 2008

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