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mush

1   [muhsh or, especially for 2–5, moosh]
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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Origin:
1665–75, Americanism; obscurely akin to mash1
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mush

2   [muhsh]
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
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mush1 (mʌʃ)
 
—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 mash; compare Old English mōs food]

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 mush1, alluding to the softness of the face]

mush4 (mʊʃ)
 
—n
slang (Brit) a familiar or contemptuous term of address
 
[C19: probably from Gypsy moosh a man]

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mush
"kind of porridge," 1670s, in the American colonies, variant of mash (v.). Meaning "anything soft and thick" is attested from 1824.
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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


  1. n.
    nonsense. : What mush! Come on, talk straight!
  2. n.
    romance; lovemaking; kissing. : I can't stand movies with lots of mush in them.
  3. n.
    one's face. (Crude.) : Put some paint on your mush, and let's get going.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Computing Dictionary

MUSH definition


1. Multi-User Shared Hallucination.
2. Mail Users' Shell.

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