mush
mush (mus̸h)
noun
- a thick porridge made by boiling meal, esp. cornmeal, in water or milk
- any thick, soft, yielding mass
- Informal maudlin sentimentality
Etymology: prob. var. of mash
transitive verb
Chiefly Brit., Dialectal to make into mush; crush
mush (mus̸h)
in Canada and Alaska, used to command sled dogs to start or to go faster
Etymology: prob. < mush on, altered < Fr marchons, let's go < marcher, to go, march
intransitive verb
to travel on foot over snow with a dog sled
noun
a journey by mushing
mush
n.
Boiled meal
Indian meal, hasty pudding, supawn, samp, hominy, cereal, grain, spoon*, victual*; see also food.Any soft mass
pulp, slush, dough; see mash.*Sentimentality
sentimentalism, excessive sentiment, mawkishness, affectation, superficiality, superficial sentiment, exaggerated sentiment, romanticism, maudlinism, a sentiment about sentiment, puppy love*, gush*, flap-doodle*, hearts and flowers*, sob stuff*; see also love.
Converse of object
- eat: Oh and of course the little one will be breastfed and then eat homemade organic mush.
- become: Better get out before my mind becomes a mush of cheesy innuendo.
- make: You might have to mash its pellets and add water to make a mush.
- know: Goblin ish a thief, Smeagol doeshn't know goblin mush anymore, where ish Goblin?
- base: The Transformers MUSH List - MUSHes based on the Transformers theme, with telnet and web addresses.
- have: I didnât have mush to feel down about I thought as when you look around the ward Iâve got it easy.
Adjective modifier
- slimy: Do not put solid batches in, as too much grass will produce a slimy, smelly mush.
- smelly: Do not put solid batches in, as too much grass will produce a slimy, smelly mush.
- doggie: When you place these foods in the bowl, they immediately turn into doggie mush.
- fried: Back to the surface for a dinner of fried mush.
- pure: Too many baby meals on the market are just purees or pure mush!
- soft: Cook gently, stirring occasionally, till the apples fall to a soft mush.
Modifies a noun
- room: Now we cleared with about 2 inch clearance on the now highest bit, the front mush room vent.
- culture: MUSH culture also enjoys some of the other hallmarks typical of a self-taught, intrinsically collaborative culture.
Modifying Another Word
- together: And then, how does it not get all mushed together to make a horrid pale purple paste?
Noun used with modifier
- equality: Instead all equality issues are being brought together in what some fear will be 'an equalities mush ' .
- maize: In some areas, maize mush is fried or baked.
- care: It is possible to hang the feeder although care mush be taken.
Followed by an intransitive particle
- up: Or are they mushed up too finely to know?
We are fed up with fudging and nudging, with mush and slush.
Browse dictionary entries near mush
- museum
- musette bag
- musette
- Muses
- museology
- museful
- muse
- MusD
- musculo-
- musculature
- musharaka
- musher
- mushroom
- mushy
- music
- music box
- music drama
- music hall
- music of the spheres
- music on hold
