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mush

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mush 1  (msh)
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 1
Noun
1. a soft pulpy mass
2. Informal cloying sentimentality [obsolete moose porridge]

mush 2 Canad
interj
an order to dogs in a sled team to start up or go faster
Verb
to travel by or drive a dogsled [perhaps from imperative of French marcher to advance]
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.mushmush - any soft or soggy mass; "he pounded it to a pulp"
mass - a body of matter without definite shape; "a huge ice mass"
2.mush - cornmeal boiled in water
cornmeal, Indian meal - coarsely ground corn
hot cereal - a cereal that is served hot
atole - eaten as mush or as a thin gruel
hasty pudding - cornmeal mush served with sweetening (maple syrup or brown sugar)
polenta - a thick mush made of cornmeal boiled in stock or water
3.mushmush - writing or music that is excessively sweet and sentimental
sentimentalism - the excessive expression of tender feelings, nostalgia, or sadness in any form
4.mush - a journey by dogsled
journey, journeying - the act of traveling from one place to another
Verb1.mush - drive (a team of dogs or a dogsled)
dogsled, mush - travel with a dogsled
drive - urge forward; "drive the cows into the barn"
2.mush - travel with a dogsled
sled, sleigh - ride (on) a sled
mush - drive (a team of dogs or a dogsled)

mush
noun 1. pulp, paste, mash, purée, pap, slush, goo (informal)
noun 2. (Informal) sentimentality, corn (informal) slush (informal) schmaltz (slang) mawkishness
Translations
Spanish mush [mʌʃ] ngachas fpl
French mush [mʌʃ] nbouillie f;
(pej) → sentimentalité f à l'eau de rose

German mush [mʌʃ] nBrei m;
(pej) → Schmalz m

Italian mush [mʌʃ] npappa

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In the kitchen he found Jim, the other boarder, eating mush very languidly, with a sick, far-away look in his eyes.
Shimerda ladled meal mush out of an iron pot and poured milk on it.
THEY swarmed up towards Sherburn's house, a- whooping and raging like Injuns, and everything had to clear the way or get run over and tromped to mush, and it was awful to see.
 
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