mush.
A somewhat liquid mess, often of food; a soft or semisolid substance.
Meaning & usage
A somewhat liquid mess, often of food; a soft or semisolid substance.
A mixture of noise produced by the harmonics of continuous-wave stations.
The foam of a breaker.
A magmatic body containing a significant proportion of crystals suspended in the liquid phase or melt.
A gun.
Do you want me to back out the mush, bruv?
Where this word comes from
Probably a variant of mash, or from a dialectal variant of Middle English mos (“mush, pulp, porridge”); compare Middle English appelmos (“applesauce”), from Old English mōs (“food, victuals, porridge, mush”), from Proto-West Germanic *mōs, 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”).
To squish so as to break into smaller pieces or to combine with something else.
He mushed the ingredients together.
Where this word comes from
Probably a variant of mash, or from a dialectal variant of Middle English mos (“mush, pulp, porridge”); compare Middle English appelmos (“applesauce”), from Old English mōs (“food, victuals, porridge, mush”), from Proto-West Germanic *mōs, 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”).
A food comprising cracked or rolled grains cooked in water or milk; porridge.
Cornmeal cooked in water and served as a porridge or as a thick sidedish like grits or mashed potatoes.
Where this word comes from
From Old High German muos and Goidelic mus (“a pap”) or muss (“a porridge”), or any thick preparation of fruit.
A directive given (usually to dogs or a horse) to start moving, or to move faster.
Where this word comes from
Believed to be a contraction of mush on, from Michif, in turn a corruption of French marche (“march”) or marchons!, the cry of voyageurs and coureurs de bois to their dogs. Marche and marchons are respectively the second-person singular and first-person plural imperative forms of marcher (“to move; to travel; to walk”), from Middle French marcher, from Old French marchier, from Frankish *markōn, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *markōną (“to mark; to notice”).
A walk, especially across the snow with dogs.
Where this word comes from
Believed to be a contraction of mush on, from Michif, in turn a corruption of French marche (“march”) or marchons!, the cry of voyageurs and coureurs de bois to their dogs. Marche and marchons are respectively the second-person singular and first-person plural imperative forms of marcher (“to move; to travel; to walk”), from Middle French marcher, from Old French marchier, from Frankish *markōn, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *markōną (“to mark; to notice”).
To walk, especially across the snow with dogs.
To drive dogs, usually pulling a sled, across the snow.
Where this word comes from
Believed to be a contraction of mush on, from Michif, in turn a corruption of French marche (“march”) or marchons!, the cry of voyageurs and coureurs de bois to their dogs. Marche and marchons are respectively the second-person singular and first-person plural imperative forms of marcher (“to move; to travel; to walk”), from Middle French marcher, from Old French marchier, from Frankish *markōn, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *markōną (“to mark; to notice”).
A magic mushroom.
Where this word comes from
Simple contraction of mushroom.
(US, slang, chiefly Nonantum) A form of address, normally to a man.
Oy mush, come over here and gimme a hand with the motor.
The face.
Where this word comes from
From Angloromani mush (“man”), from Romani mursh, from Sanskrit मनुष्य (manuṣya, “human being, man”).
A cab driver who is the owner of their cab, and sometimes a small number of other cabs as well; a musher.
Where this word comes from
Possibly from mush (“to drive dogs, usually pulling a sled, across snow”, verb), or mush (“(slang, rare) umbrella”, noun) (a clipping of mushroom, from the similar appearance; referring to drivers shielding passengers with umbrellas in rainy weather).
To notch, cut, or indent (cloth, etc.) with a stamp.
Where this word comes from
Compare French moucheter (“to cut with small cuts”).
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