Definitions for mush

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mush mush

Spelling: [muhsh or especially for 2–5, moo sh]

IPA: /mʌʃ or especially for 2–5, mʊʃ/

Mush is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 26 anagrams from letters in mush (hmsu).

Definitions for mush

noun

1. meal, especially cornmeal, boiled in water or milk until it forms a thick, soft mass, or until it is stiff enough to mold into a loaf for slicing and frying.
2. any thick, soft mass.
3. mawkish sentimentality or amorousness.
4. anything unpleasantly or contemptibly lacking in coherence, force, dignity, etc.:
5. a trip or journey, especially across snow and ice with a dog team.

interjection

1. go! (used as an order to start or speed up a dog team)

verb (used with object)

1. to squeeze or crush; crunch:
2. to drive or spur on (sled dogs or a sled drawn by dogs).

verb (used without object)

1. to go or travel, especially over snow with a dog team and sled.

Origin of mush

1665-75, Americanism; obscurely akin to mash¹

Examples for mush

The smell of grilled meat mixes with the exotic wafts of cinnamon tea served with a mush of sweet brown dessert.

And his head ain't all mush and seeds like a pumpkin, if I'm any judge.

It means just moonshine and mush and lookin' into each other's eyes, that's about all.

He is probably an edifying spectacle by this time, a mush of maudlin penitence.

Furthermore, the mush of “vegetables” surrounding the house was more than fulfilled.

He was actually soft as mush, straining to mollify Hispanics without roiling his own nativist base.

mush of acorn meal which I had left in my pot had been eaten.

And because it makes us mush our words, as when we talk to babies.

First of all, no one says “mush” when they want the dogs to go.

Children play with forks, using the sharp tines to reduce green beans to a mush, or to turn potatoes pink with ketchup.