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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun mush has 4 senses
- mush(n = noun.object) pulp - any soft or soggy mass; "he pounded it to a pulp" is a kind of mass
- mush(n = noun.food) cornmeal mush - cornmeal boiled in water; Array is a kind of hot cereal
- mush(n = noun.communication) glop, slop, treacle - writing or music that is excessively sweet and sentimental; Array is a kind of sentimentalism
- mush(n = noun.act) Array - a journey by dogsled; Array is a kind of journey, journeying
Derived form adjective mushy1
has particulars: atole, hasty pudding, polenta
Derived form adjective mushy1
Verb mush has 2 senses
- mush(v = verb.motion) Array - drive (a team of dogs or a dogsled); Array is one way to drive
- mush(v = verb.motion) dogsled - travel with a dogsled; Array is one way to sled, sleigh
Derived form noun musher1
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
Derived form noun musher1
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s
CIDE DICTIONARY
mush, n. [Cf. Gael. mus, muss, pap, porridge, any thick preparation of fruit, OHG. muos; akin to AS. & OS. mōs food, and prob, to E. meat. See Meat.].
Meal (esp. Indian meal) boiled in water; hasty pudding; supawn. [1913 Webster]
mush, v. t. [Cf. F. moucheter to cut with small cuts.].
To notch, cut, or indent, as cloth, with a stamp. [1913 Webster]
mush, n. [Perh. short for mush on, a corrupt of E. marchons, the cry of the voyageurs and coureurs de bois to their dogs.].
A march on foot, esp. across the snow with dogs; as, he had a long mush before him; -- also used attributively. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
mush, v. i.
To travel on foot, esp. across the snow with dogs. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
mush, n.
1 soft pulp.
2 feeble sentimentality.
3 US maize porridge.
1 soft pulp.
2 feeble sentimentality.
3 US maize porridge.
Derivative
mushy adj. (mushier, mushiest). mushily adv. mushiness n.
mush, v. & n. US
--v.intr.
1 (in imper.) used as a command to dogs pulling a sledge to urge them forward.
2 go on a journey across snow with a dog-sledge.
--n. a journey across snow with a dog-sledge.
--v.intr.
1 (in imper.) used as a command to dogs pulling a sledge to urge them forward.
2 go on a journey across snow with a dog-sledge.
--n. a journey across snow with a dog-sledge.
Etymology
prob. corrupt. f. F marchons imper. of marcher advance
THESAURUS
mush
airing, amble, bathos, bazoo, bleeding heart, breakfast food, butter, cataplasm, cereal, chaps, chops, cloyingness, constitutional, cornflakes, countenance, crush, dental pulp, dial, dry cereal, embouchure, face, facies, farina, favor, features, forced march, frumenty, gab, gob, goo, grits, gruel, hasty pudding, hearts-and-flowers, hike, hominy grits, hot cereal, jaunt, jaw, jaws, jowls, kasha, kisser, lineaments, lips, loblolly, mandibles, map, march, mash, maudlinness, maw, mawkishness, maxilla, millet, mouth, mug, mushiness, muzzle, namby-pamby, namby-pambyism, namby-pambyness, nostalgia, nostomania, oatmeal, oral cavity, oversentimentalism, oversentimentality, pan, paper pulp, parade, paste, peripatetic journey, peripateticism, phiz, physiognomy, pith, plaster, porridge, poultice, premaxilla, promenade, pudding, puffed rice, puffed wheat, pulp, pulp lead, pulpwood, puss, rag pulp, ramble, rolled oats, romanticism, row, sauce, saunter, schlep, sentiment, sentimentalism, sentimentality, slop, sloppiness, slush, smash, soap opera, sob story, sponge, squash, stretch, stroll, sulfate pulp, sulfite pulp, sweetness and light, tearjerker, traipse, tramp, trap, trudge, turn, visage, walk, walking tour, wheatflakes, white lead, wood pulp, yapROGET THESAURUS
mush
Pulpiness
N pulpiness, pulp, taste, dough, curd, pap, rob, jam, pudding, poultice, grume, mush, oatmeal, baby food, pulpy, pultaceous, grumous, baccate.
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