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mush

1  [muhsh or, especially for 2–5, moosh]
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–noun
1. meal, esp. 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.
Origin:
1665–75, Americanism; obscurely akin to mash 1

mush

2  [muhsh]
–verb (used without object)
1. to go or travel, esp. 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, esp. across snow and ice with a dog team.
Origin:
1895–1900; perh. orig. as phrasal v. mush on! < CanF, F marchons! let's go!; see march 1
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mush 1   (mŭsh)   
n.  

  1. A thick porridge or pudding of cornmeal boiled in water or milk.

  2. Something thick, soft, and pulpy.

  3. Informal Mawkish sentimentality, affection, or amorousness.

tr.v.   mushed, mush·ing, mush·es
To reduce to mush; mash or crush.

[Probably alteration of mash.]
mush 2   (mŭsh)   
v.   mushed, mush·ing, mush·es

v.   intr.
To travel, especially over snow with a dogsled.
v.   tr.
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.

[Possibly alteration of French marchons, first person pl. imperative of marcher, to walk, go, from Old French; see march1.]
mush'er n.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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Slang Dictionary
mush

  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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Word Origin & History

mush  (n.)
"kind of porridge," 1671, in the American colonies, variant of mash (v.). Meaning "anything soft and thick" is attested from 1824. First record of mushy "sentimental" is 1870; mush "sentimentality" is attested from 1908.

mush  (interj.)
"command to sled dogs," first recorded 1862, as mouche, perhaps altered from Fr. marchons! "advance!" (imperative of marcher "to march").
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Computing Dictionary

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

The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, © 1993-2007 Denis Howe
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