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mush

Pronunciation: /mʌʃ/

The English word “mush” has 17 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. A somewhat liquid mess, often of food; a soft or semisolid substance.
  2. A mixture of noise produced by the harmonics of continuous-wave stations.
  3. The foam of a breaker.
  4. A magmatic body containing a significant proportion of crystals suspended in the liquid phase or melt.
  5. A gun.
  6. A food comprising cracked or rolled grains cooked in water or milk; porridge.
  7. Cornmeal cooked in water and served as a porridge or as a thick sidedish like grits or mashed potatoes.
  8. A walk, especially across the snow with dogs.
  9. A magic mushroom.
  10. (US, slang, chiefly Nonantum) A form of address, normally to a man.
  11. The face.
  12. A cab driver who is the owner of their cab, and sometimes a small number of other cabs as well; a musher.

verb

  1. To squish so as to break into smaller pieces or to combine with something else.
  2. To walk, especially across the snow with dogs.
  3. To drive dogs, usually pulling a sled, across the snow.
  4. To notch, cut, or indent (cloth, etc.) with a stamp.

interjection

  1. A directive given (usually to dogs or a horse) to start moving, or to move faster.

Etymology

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-West Germanic *mōs, from Proto-Germanic *mōsą (“porridge, food”), from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂d- (“wet, fat, dripping”). Cognate with Scots moosh (“mush”), Dutch moes (“pulp,…

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