Mush

Pronunciation ,

• British enPR: mÅ­sh, IPA: /mʌʃ/
• US IPA: /mʊʃ/
• Rhymes: -ʌʃ
• Rhymes: -ʊʃ

Probably a variant of mash, or from a dialectal variant of Middle English mos (), from Old English mōs ("food, victuals, porridge, mush"), from Proto-Germanic *mōsą ("porridge, food"), from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂d- ("wet, fat, dripping"). Cognate with Scots moosh ("mush"), Dutch moes ("pulp, mush, porridge"), German Mus ("jam, puree, mush"), Swedish mos ("pulp, mash, mush"). See also moose.

Full definition of mush

Noun

1. (uncountable) A mess, often of food; a soft or semisolid substance.Mom said to add the potatoes to the mush.

Verb

1. To squish so as to break into smaller pieces or to combine with something else.He mushed the ingredients together.

Derived terms

• apple-mush
• mushy

Pronunciation ,

• British enPR: mÅ­sh, IPA: /mʌʃ/
• Rhymes: -ʌʃ

Simple contraction of mushroom.

Noun

1. (Quebecois English, slang) magic mushrooms

Synonyms

• shroom slang

Pronunciation ,

• British enPR: mÅ­sh, IPA: /mʌʃ/
• Rhymes: -ʌʃ

From Old High German muos and mus ("a pap") or muss ("a porridge"), or any thick preparation of fruit.

Noun

1. A food comprising cracked or rolled grains cooked in water or milk; porridge.
2. rural USA cornmeal cooked in water and served as a porridge or as a thick sidedish like grits or mashed potatoes.

Pronunciation ,

• British enPR: mÅ­sh, IPA: /mʌʃ/
• Rhymes: -ʌʃ

Believed to be a contraction of mush on, in turn a corruption of French marchons!, the cry of the voyageurs and coureurs de bois to their dogs.

Interjection

1. A directive given (usually to dogs or a horse) to start moving, or to move faster.When the lone cowboy saw the Indians, he yelled mush, cha, giddyup!

Noun

1. A walk, especially across the snow with dogs.

Verb

1. (intransitive) To walk, especially across the snow with dogs.
2. (transitive) To drive dogs, usually pulling a sled, across the snow.
• 1910, Jack London, ,Together the two men loaded and lashed the sled. They warmed their hands for the last time, pulled on their mittens, and mushed the dogs over the bank and down to the river-trail.

Pronunciation

• UK enPR: mo͝osh, IPA: /mʊʃ/
• Rhymes: -ʊʃ

From Angloromani mush ("man"), from Romani murš, from Sanskrit (manuSya, "human being, man").

Noun

1. (British, primarily Southern England, slang) A form of address to a man.
• "'Oy, mush! Get out of it!'
  That's what we'd say
  Barging the locals
  Out of the way"
  — MAUREEN AND DOREEN AND NOREEN AND ME, Peculiar Poems, http://www.jclamb.com/
• "When I'm around it's not uncommon for someone to call me and say :'Oy mush, get your bum over here and give us a hand.'" — THE ONCE AND FUTURE KING: In Which King Arthur Uther Pendragon Grants An Interview http://arthurpendragon.ukonline.co.uk/arthur.html
2. (British, primarily Northern England, slang) The face
• "My ugly mush finally found its way onto the www, but not in the manner to which I deserved." — http://owlfarm.pmgr.net/aspen/hst16.htm
• 2002:"I grew my face fungus to cover up an ugly mush." — http://www.maggotdrowning.com/forum/topic.asp?ARCHIVE=true&TOPIC_ID=809
• "and your bird has an ugly mush" — http://b3ta.com/board/archive/21323/

Synonyms

• (form of address to a man) mate UK, pal especially US
• (the face) mug

Compare French moucheter ("to cut with small cuts").

Verb

1. (transitive) To notch, cut, or indent (cloth, etc.) with a stamp.

Anagrams

• hums