mush

Meaning

Noun

1. (countable, uncountable) A somewhat liquid mess, often of food; a soft or semisolid substance.
2. (countable, uncountable) A mixture of noise produced by the harmonics of continuous-wave stations.
3. (countable, uncountable) The foam of a breaker.
4. (countable, uncountable) A magmatic body containing a significant proportion of crystals suspended in the liquid phase or melt.
5. (Multicultural-London-English, countable, uncountable) A gun.

Verb

To squish so as to break into smaller pieces or to combine with something else.

Intj

A directive given (usually to dogs or a horse) to start moving, or to move faster.

Verb

1. (intransitive) To walk, especially across the snow with dogs.
2. (transitive) To drive dogs, usually pulling a sled, across the snow.

Verb

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

Synonyms

gruel

porridge

puree

mess

pap

slop

treacle

cornmeal mush

glop

jam

pulp

bread

🍞

mash

nonsense

dough

bunk

dogsled

foolery

kasha

mate

🧉

mawkishness

mixture

mud

mushy

noise

nonsensicalness

oatmeal

peat

piffle

polenta

pudding

puerility

roar

rot

rubbish

rumble

shenanigan

silliness

sirup

sloppiness

sludge

slush

squash

squeeze

stew

🍲

stupidity

syrup

trifle

umbrella

☔

wheel

🛞

Translations

bouillie

pap

purée

moes

Brei

brij

Mus

papilla

puré

compote

gacha

pappa

farinetes

mingau

polenta

Pronounced as (IPA)

/mʌʃ/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: mos

Cognate with Middle English: appelmos

Inherited from Old English: mōs

Cognate with Scots: moosh

Cognate with Dutch: moes

Cognate with German: Mus

Cognate with Swedish: mos

Cognate with French: moucheter

In summary

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”).