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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

MUSH, n. The meal of maiz boiled in water.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: any soft or soggy mass; "he pounded it to a pulp" [syn: pulp, mush]
2: cornmeal boiled in water [syn: mush, cornmeal mush]
3: writing or music that is excessively sweet and sentimental [syn: treacle, mush, slop, glop]
4: a journey by dogsled v
1: drive (a team of dogs or a dogsled)
2: travel with a dogsled [syn: dogsled, mush]

Merriam Webster's

I. noun Etymology: probably alteration of mash Date: 1671 1. a thick porridge made with cornmeal boiled in water or milk 2. something soft and spongy or shapeless 3. a. weak sentimentality ; drivel b. mawkish amorousness II. verb Date: circa 1781 transitive verb chiefly dialect to reduce to a crumbly mass intransitive verb of an airplane to fly in a partly or nearly stalled condition • musher noun III. intransitive verb Etymology: probably from French marchons, 1st plural imperative of marcher to move, march, from Middle French marchier — more at march Date: 1897 to travel especially over snow with a sled drawn by dogs — often used as a command to a dog team • musher noun IV. noun Date: 1902 a trip especially across snow with a dog team

Oxford Reference Dictionary

1. n. 1 soft pulp. 2 feeble sentimentality. 3 US maize porridge. Derivatives: mushy adj. (mushier, mushiest). mushily adv. mushiness n. Etymology: app. var. of MASH 2. v. & n. US --v.intr. 1 (in imper.) used as a command to dogs pulling a sledge to urge them forward. 2 go on a journey across snow with a dog-sledge. --n. a journey across snow with a dog-sledge. Etymology: prob. corrupt. f. F marchons imper. of marcher advance

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Mush Mush, n. [Cf. Gael. mus, muss, pap, porridge, any thick preparation of fruit, OHG. muos; akin to AS. & OS. m[=o]s food, and prob, to E. meat. See Meat.] Meal (esp. Indian meal) boiled in water; hasty pudding; supawn. [U.S.]

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Mush Mush, v. t. [Cf. F. moucheter to cut with small cuts.] To notch, cut, or indent, as cloth, with a stamp.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Mush Mush, n. [Perh. short for mush on, a corrupt of E. marchons, the cry of the voyageurs and coureurs de bois to their dogs.] A march on foot, esp. across the snow with dogs; as, he had a long mush before him; -- also used attributively. [Colloq., Alaska & Northwestern U. S.]

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Mush Mush, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Mushed; p. pr. & vb. n. Mushing.] To travel on foot, esp. across the snow with dogs. -- v. t. To cause to travel or journey. [Rare] [Colloq., Alaska & Northwestern U. S.]

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Mush Mush, v. t. To notch, cut, or indent, as cloth, with a stamp.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(mushes mushing mushed) 1. Mush is a thick, soft paste. The brown mush in the fridge is some veg soup left over. N-VAR: also a N 2. If you describe something such as a film or book as mush, you mean that it is very sentimental. Whenever famous actresses get together to make a 'woman's film' you can bet on an overload of sentimental mush. N-UNCOUNT [disapproval] 3. If you mush something, you make it into a mush. ...mushed-up potato and cauliflower. = mash VERB: V-ed up, also V n, V-ed

Moby Thesaurus

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