Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To travel, especially over snow with a dogsled.
- intransitive verb To drive (a dogsled or team of dogs).
- noun A journey, especially by dogsled.
- interjection Used to command a team of dogs to begin pulling or move faster.
- noun A thick porridge or pudding of cornmeal boiled in water or milk.
- noun Something thick, soft, and pulpy.
- noun Informal Mawkish sentimentality, affection, or amorousness.
- transitive verb To reduce to mush; mash or crush.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To nick or notch (dress-fabrics) round the edges with a stamp, for ornament.
- noun Anything mashed.
- noun Meal boiled in water or milk until it forms a thick, soft mass: as, oatmeal mush; mush and milk; specifically, such a preparation made from Indian corn; hasty-pudding.
- noun Something resembling mush, as being soft and pulpy: as, mush of mud.
- noun Fish ground up; chum; pomace; stosh.
- noun Dust; dusty refuse.
- noun The best kind of iron ore.
- To reduce to a mush or a pulp, or to a pulverized condition; pulverize; crush.
- To become reduced to a pulverized condition; crumble; waste away.
- To trudge or travel through the snow, while driving a dog-sled. See
mushing andmusher .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Colloq., Alaska & Northwestern U. S. A march on foot, esp. across the snow with dogs; ; -- also used attributively.
- intransitive verb To travel on foot, esp. across the snow with dogs.
- noun U.S. Meal (esp. Indian meal) boiled in water; hasty pudding; supawn.
- transitive verb To notch, cut, or indent, as cloth, with a stamp.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A food comprising
cracked orrolled grains cooked in water or milk;porridge . - noun rural USA
cornmeal cooked in water and served as a porridge or as a thicksidedish likegrits or mashed potatoes. - noun Quebecois English, slang
magic mushrooms - noun uncountable A
mess , often of food; asoft orsemisolid substance. - verb To
squish so as to break into smaller pieces or to combine with something else. - interjection A directive given (usually to dogs or a horse) to start moving, or to move faster.
- noun A
walk , especially across thesnow withdogs . - verb intransitive To
walk , especially across thesnow withdogs . - verb transitive To drive dogs, usually pulling a sled, across the snow.
- noun UK, primarily Southern England, slang A form of address to a man.
- noun UK, primarily Northern England, slang The
face - verb transitive To
notch ,cut , orindent (cloth, etc.) with astamp .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb travel with a dogsled
- verb drive (a team of dogs or a dogsled)
- noun a journey by dogsled
- noun any soft or soggy mass
- noun writing or music that is excessively sweet and sentimental
- noun cornmeal boiled in water
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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My end of the workday brain mush loved your bullets.
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I have, from time to time, posted articles and links that indicate a certain mush-headedness among conservatives about the company they keep.
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No wonder I recalled the Boston Globe headline: "More mush from the wimp".
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Discuss until your prune mush is digested and excreted.
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The mush is cast into loaves and allowed to cool thoroughly until gelled.
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The mush is cast into loaves and allowed to cool thoroughly until gelled.
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Patronizing mush from the talk-show host, who urges women to settle for “Mr. 80 Percent” and hold sex “in reserve” to protect themselves from all the men who still think, “Why buy the cow when you can get the milk for free?”
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Patronizing mush from the talk-show host, who urges women to settle for “Mr. 80 Percent” and hold sex “in reserve” to protect themselves from all the men who still think, “Why buy the cow when you can get the milk for free?”
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(HT: Blog Quebecois) Prune mush is also a required entree.
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bilby commented on the word mush
Acronym - multi-user shared hallucination (roleplay gaming for multiple users).
February 1, 2008