mush

Meanings

Noun

• 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 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.
• A walk, especially across the snow with dogs.
• A magic mushroom.
• The face.

Verb

• To squish so as to break into smaller pieces or to combine with something else.
• To walk, especially across the snow with dogs.
• To drive dogs, usually pulling a sled, across the snow.
• To notch, cut, or indent (cloth, etc.) with a stamp.

Related

Similar words

• shroom

Origin

• Probably a variant of mash, or from a dialectal variant of Middle English mos; 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-. Cognate with Scots moosh ("mush"), Dutch moes ("pulp, mush, porridge"), German Mus ("jam, puree, mush"), Swedish mos ("pulp, mash, mush"). See also moose.
• From Old High German muos and mus or muss, or any thick preparation of fruit.
• 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.
• Simple contraction of mushroom.
• From Angloromani mush ("man"), from Romani mursh, from Sanskrit मनुष्य ("human being, man").
• Compare French moucheter ("to cut with small cuts").