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Definition mush

Etymology 1

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 m?s (“food, victuals, porridge, mush”), from Proto-Germanic *m?s? (“porridge, food”), from Proto-Indo-European *meh?d- (“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.

Noun

mush (countable and uncountable, plural mushes)

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

mush (third-person singular simple present mushes, present participle mushing, simple past and past participle mushed)

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

Etymology 2

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

Noun

mush (uncountable)

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

Etymology 3

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

Interjection

mush

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

mush (plural mushes)

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

mush (third-person singular simple present mushes, present participle mushing, simple past and past participle mushed)

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

Etymology 4

Simple contraction of mushroom.

Noun

mush (plural mushes)

  1. (Quebec, slang) A magic mushroom.

Etymology 5

From Angloromani mush (“man”), from Romani mursh, from Sanskrit ?????? (manu?ya, “human being, man”).

Noun

mush (plural mushes)

  1. (Britain, slang, chiefly Southern England) A form of address to a man.
  2. (Britain, slang, chiefly Northern England, Australia) The face.

Etymology 6

Compare French moucheter (“to cut with small cuts”).

Verb

mush (third-person singular simple present mushes, present participle mushing, simple past and past participle mushed)

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

Results 472 Words with the letters MUSH

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AMBUSH 15
BUMPHS 18
CHUMPS 18
HAULMS 13
HOKUMS 16
HUMANS 13
HUMMUS 16
HUMORS 12
HUMPHS 17
KHOUMS 16
MOHURS 12
MOUTHS 12
MUCHES 15
MULISH 13
MUSHED 13
MUSHER 12
MUSHES 12
MUSTHS 12
RHEUMS 12
RHUMBS 15
SAMSHU 12
SHAMUS 12
SHLUMP 16
SHMUCK 19
SMUTCH 15
SUMACH 15
THRUMS 12
THUMBS 15
THUMPS 15
THYMUS 14
UNMESH 13
WHUMPS 18
5 letter words with the letters MUSH 
CHUMS 14
HUMPS 14
HUMUS 12
MUSHY 13
MUSTH 11
4 letter words with the letters MUSH 
HUMS 10
MUSH 10
3 letter words with the letters MUSH 
HUM 9
MUS 7
SUM 7
2 letter words with the letters MUSH 
HM 7
MU 6
SH 4
UH 5
UM 6
US 3

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