mush

Definitions


[mʌʃ], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a soft, wet, pulpy mass
(e.g: red lentils cook quickly and soon turn to mush)

- feeble or cloying sentimentality
(e.g: the film's not just romantic mush)

- thick maize porridge


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Origin:
late 17th century (in mush): apparently a variant of mash


[mʌʃ], (Verb)

Definitions:
- reduce (a substance) to a soft, wet, pulpy mass
(e.g: I reached over to his plate with my spoon and mushed together his pie with slice of flan)


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Origin:
late 17th century (in mush): apparently a variant of mash


[mʌʃ], (Verb)

Definitions:
- go on a journey across snow with a dog sled
(e.g: they got into the sleigh and mushed over the ice and snow)


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Origin:
mid 19th century: probably an alteration of French marchez! or marchons!, imperatives of marcher ‘to advance’


[mʌʃ], (Interjection)

Definitions:
- a command urging on dogs pulling a sled during a journey across snow


Phrases:

Origin:
mid 19th century: probably an alteration of French marchez! or marchons!, imperatives of marcher ‘to advance’


[mʌʃ], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a journey across snow with a dog sled
(e.g: a twelve-day mush for men and dogs over the frozen subarctic prairie)


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Origin:
mid 19th century: probably an alteration of French marchez! or marchons!, imperatives of marcher ‘to advance’


[mʊʃ], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a person's mouth or face
(e.g: he always had a chewed cigar in his mush)


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Origin:
late 18th century: of uncertain origin; perhaps related to mug


[mʊʃ], (Noun)

Definitions:
- used as a form of address for a man
(e.g: what you doing round here, mush?)


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Origin:
1930s: probably from Romani, ‘man’




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