mush

• POS: Interjection, Noun

CIDE DICTIONARY

mush, n. [Cf. Gael. mus, muss, pap, porridge, any thick preparation of fruit, OHG. muos; akin to AS. & OS. mōs food, and prob, to E. meat. See Meat.].

 Meal (esp. Indian meal) boiled in water; hasty pudding; supawn.  [1913 Webster]

mush, v. t. [Cf. F. moucheter to cut with small cuts.].

 To notch, cut, or indent, as cloth, with a stamp.  [1913 Webster]

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.  [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

mush, v. i. 

 To travel on foot, esp. across the snow with dogs.  [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

mush, n.
1 soft pulp.
2 feeble sentimentality.
3 US maize porridge.

Derivative

mushy adj. (mushier, mushiest). mushily adv. mushiness n.

mush, 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

THESAURUS

mush

airing, amble, bathos, bazoo, bleeding heart, breakfast food, butter, cataplasm, cereal, chaps, chops, cloyingness, constitutional, cornflakes, countenance, crush, dental pulp, dial, dry cereal, embouchure, face, facies, farina, favor, features, forced march, frumenty, gab, gob, goo, grits, gruel, hasty pudding, hearts-and-flowers, hike, hominy grits, hot cereal, jaunt, jaw, jaws, jowls, kasha, kisser, lineaments, lips, loblolly, mandibles, map, march, mash, maudlinness, maw, mawkishness, maxilla, millet, mouth, mug, mushiness, muzzle, namby-pamby, namby-pambyism, namby-pambyness, nostalgia, nostomania, oatmeal, oral cavity, oversentimentalism, oversentimentality, pan, paper pulp, parade, paste, peripatetic journey, peripateticism, phiz, physiognomy, pith, plaster, porridge, poultice, premaxilla, promenade, pudding, puffed rice, puffed wheat, pulp, pulp lead, pulpwood, puss, rag pulp, ramble, rolled oats, romanticism, row, sauce, saunter, schlep, sentiment, sentimentalism, sentimentality, slop, sloppiness, slush, smash, soap opera, sob story, sponge, squash, stretch, stroll, sulfate pulp, sulfite pulp, sweetness and light, tearjerker, traipse, tramp, trap, trudge, turn, visage, walk, walking tour, wheatflakes, white lead, wood pulp, yap

ROGET THESAURUS

mush

Pulpiness

N pulpiness, pulp, taste, dough, curd, pap, rob, jam, pudding, poultice, grume, mush, oatmeal, baby food, pulpy, pultaceous, grumous, baccate.