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Mush

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Noun

1. mush, pulp

any soft or soggy mass

Example Sentences:
'he pounded it to a pulp'

2. cornmeal mush, mush

cornmeal boiled in water

3. glop, mush, slop, treacle

writing or music that is excessively sweet and sentimental

4. mush

a journey by dogsled

Verb

5. mush

drive (a team of dogs or a dogsled)

6. dogsled, mush

travel with a dogsled

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Mush

see synonyms of mush
noun
1. 
a soft pulpy mass or consistency
2. US
a thick porridge made from corn meal
3. informal
cloying sentimentality
4. radio
interference in reception, esp a hissing noise
verb
5. (transitive)
to reduce (a substance) to a soft pulpy mass
exclamation
1. 
an order to dogs in a sled team to start up or go faster
verb
2. 
to travel by or drive a dog sled
3. (intransitive)
to travel on foot, esp with snowshoes
noun
4. 
a journey with a dogsled
noun British
a slang word for face (sense 1)
noun
British slang
a familiar or contemptuous term of address

Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

Mush

see synonyms of mush
noun
1. 
a thick porridge made by boiling meal, esp. cornmeal, in water or milk
2. 
any thick, soft, yielding mass
3.  Informal
maudlin sentimentality
verb transitive
4.  Chiefly British, Dialectal
to make into mush; crush
interjection
1. 
in Canada and Alaska, used to command sled dogs to start or to go faster
verb intransitive
2. 
to travel on foot over snow with a dog sled
noun
3. 
a journey by mushing

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Mush

see synonyms of mush
n.
1. A thick porridge or pudding of cornmeal boiled in water or milk.
2. Something thick, soft, and pulpy.
3. Informal Mawkish sentimentality, affection, or amorousness.
tr.v. mushed, mush·ing, mush·es
To reduce to mush; mash or crush.
v. mushed, mush·ing, mush·es
v.intr.
To travel, especially over snow with a dogsled.
v.tr.
To drive (a dogsled or team of dogs).
n.
A journey, especially by dogsled.
interj.
Used to command a team of dogs to begin pulling or move faster.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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