noun
1.
meal, especially cornmeal, boiled in water or milk until it forms a thick, soft mass, or until it is stiff enough to mold into a loaf for slicing and frying.
2.
any thick, soft mass.
3.
mawkish sentimentality or amorousness.
4.
anything unpleasantly or contemptibly lacking in coherence, force, dignity, etc.: His entire argument was simply mush.
verb (used with object)
5.
to squeeze or crush; crunch: to mush all the candy together in a sticky ball.
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verb (used without object)
1.
to go or travel, especially over snow with a dog team and sled.
verb (used with object)
2.
to drive or spur on (sled dogs or a sled drawn by dogs).
interjection
3.
go! (used as an order to start or speed up a dog team)
noun
4.
a trip or journey, especially across snow and ice with a dog team.
Origin:
1895–1900; perhaps orig. as phrasal v. mush on! < Canadian French, French marchons! let's go!; see march1
1895–1900; perhaps orig. as phrasal v. mush on! < Canadian French, French marchons! let's go!; see march1
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mush1 (mʌʃ) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | a soft pulpy mass or consistency |
| 2. | (US) a thick porridge made from corn meal |
| 3. | informal cloying sentimentality |
| 4. | radio interference in reception, esp a hissing noise |
| —vb | |
| 5. | (tr) to reduce (a substance) to a soft pulpy mass |
| [C17: from obsolete moose porridge; probably related to | |
| mush2 (mʌʃ) | |
| —interj | |
| 1. | an order to dogs in a sled team to start up or go faster |
| —vb | |
| 2. | to travel by or drive a dog sled |
| 3. | (intr) to travel on foot, esp with snowshoes |
| —n | |
| 4. | a journey with a dogsled |
| [C19: perhaps from French marchez or marchons, imperatives of marcher to advance] | |
| 'musher2 | |
| —n | |
| mush3 (mʊʃ) | |
| —n | |
| a slang word for face | |
| [C19: from | |
| mush4 (mʊʃ) | |
| —n | |
| slang (Brit) a familiar or contemptuous term of address | |
| [C19: probably from Gypsy moosh a man] | |
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Word Origin & History
mush
"kind of porridge," 1670s, in the American colonies, variant of mash (v.). Meaning "anything soft and thick" is attested from 1824.
mush
"command to sled dogs," first recorded 1862, as mouche, perhaps altered from Fr. marchons! "advance!" (imperative of marcher "to march").
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Slang Dictionary
mush definition
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Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Example sentences
Hot rocks were then added to the acorn mush or soup and moved about with paddles until the acorn meal was cooked.
Gathered seeds and ground them into meal and made mush or bread.
When defrosted, all the intracellular goo oozes out, turning your strawberries into runny mush.
The size of a sesame seed, the third gut contains a dense mush of symbiotic microbes.
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