mush
noun
[ mʌʃ ]
• a soft, wet, pulpy mass.
• "red lentils cook quickly and soon turn to mush"
Similar:
pap,
pulp,
slop,
paste,
puree,
slush,
swill,
mash,
pomace,
gloop,
goo,
gook,
glop,
• feeble or cloying sentimentality.
• "the film's not just romantic mush"
• thick maize porridge.
mush
verb
• reduce (a substance) to a soft, wet, pulpy mass.
• "I reached over to his plate with my spoon and mushed together his pie with slice of flan"
Origin:
late 17th century (in mush1 (sense 3 of the noun)): apparently a variant of mash.
mush
verb
• go on a journey across snow with a dog sled.
• "they got into the sleigh and mushed over the ice and snow"
mush
exclamation
• a command urging on dogs pulling a sled during a journey across snow.
mush
noun
• a journey across snow with a dog sled.
• "a twelve-day mush for men and dogs over the frozen subarctic prairie"
Origin:
mid 19th century: probably an alteration of French marchez! or marchons!, imperatives of marcher ‘to advance’.
mush
noun
• a person's mouth or face.
• used as a form of address.
• "what you doing round here, mush?"
Origin:
mid 19th century: probably from Romani, ‘man’.
