mush

== English == === 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 mōs (“food, victuals, porridge, mush”), from Proto-West Germanic *mōs, from Proto-Germanic *mōsą (“porridge, food”), from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂d- (“wet, fat, dripping”). Cognate with Scots moosh (“mush”), Dutch moes (“pulp, mush, porridge”), German Mus (“jam, puree, mush”), Swedish mos (“pulp, mash, mush”). ==== Alternative forms ==== moosh ==== Pronunciation ==== (Received Pronunciation, US) enPR: mŭsh, IPA(key): /mʌʃ/ Rhymes: -ʌʃ (US, Northern England, Ireland) IPA(key): /mʊʃ/ Rhymes: -ʊʃ ==== Noun ==== mush (countable and uncountable, plural mushes) A somewhat liquid mess, often of food; a soft or semisolid substance. (radio) A mixture of noise produced by the harmonics of continuous-wave stations. (surfing) The foam of a breaker. (geology) A magmatic body containing a significant proportion of crystals suspended in the liquid phase or melt. (MLE) A gun. ===== Translations ===== ==== Verb ==== mush (third-person singular simple present mushes, present participle mushing, simple past and past participle mushed) To squish so as to break into smaller pieces or to combine with something else. ===== Translations ===== ==== Derived terms ==== mush up ==== Derived terms ==== apple-mush mushy ==== See also ==== mash moosh === Etymology 2 === From Old High German muos and Goidelic mus (“a pap”) or muss (“a porridge”), or any thick preparation of fruit. ==== Pronunciation ==== (UK, US) enPR: mŭsh, IPA(key): /mʌʃ/ , Rhymes: -ʌʃ ==== Noun ==== mush (countable and uncountable, plural mushes) A food comprising cracked or rolled grains cooked in water or milk; porridge. (rustic US) Cornmeal cooked in water and served as a porridge or as a thick sidedish like grits or mashed potatoes. ===== Translations ===== === Etymology 3 === Believed to be a contraction of mush on, from Michif, in turn a corruption of French marche or marchons!, the cry of voyageurs and coureurs de bois to their dogs. Marche and marchons are respectively the second-person singular and first-person plural imperative forms of marcher (“to move; to travel; to walk”), from Middle French marcher, from Old French marchier, from Frankish *markōn, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *markōną (“to mark; to notice”). ==== Pronunciation ==== (Received Pronunciation) enPR: mŭsh, IPA(key): /mʌʃ/, /mʊʃ/ (General American, Canada) IPA(key): /mʌʃ/ Rhymes: -ʌʃ ==== Interjection ==== mush A directive given (usually to dogs or a horse) to start moving, or to move faster. ===== Derived terms ===== musher ===== Translations ===== ==== Noun ==== mush (plural mushes) 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) (intransitive) To walk, especially across the snow with dogs. (transitive) To drive dogs, usually pulling a sled, across the snow. === Etymology 4 === Simple contraction of mushroom. ==== Pronunciation ==== (UK, US) enPR: mŭsh, IPA(key): /mʌʃ/ , Rhymes: -ʌʃ ==== Noun ==== mush (plural mushes) (Quebec, slang) A magic mushroom. ===== Synonyms ===== shroom (slang) ===== Translations ===== === Etymology 5 === From Angloromani mush (“man”), from Romani mursh, from Sanskrit मनुष्य (manuṣya, “human being, man”). ==== Pronunciation ==== (UK) enPR: mo͝osh, IPA(key): /mʊʃ/ Rhymes: -ʊʃ ==== Noun ==== mush (plural mushes) (UK, slang, chiefly Southern England) (US, slang, chiefly Nonantum) A form of address, normally to a man. Synonyms: (UK) mate, (especially US) pal (UK, slang, chiefly Northern England, Australia) The face. Synonym: mug ===== Derived terms ===== Toby mush ===== Translations ===== ==== References ==== Take Our Word for It Issue 101, accessed on 2005-05-09 === Etymology 6 === Possibly from mush (“to drive dogs, usually pulling a sled, across snow”, verb), or mush (“(slang, rare) umbrella”, noun) (a clipping of mushroom, from the similar appearance; referring to drivers shielding passengers with umbrellas in rainy weather). ==== Noun ==== mush (plural mushes) (chiefly London, slang) A cab driver who is the owner of their cab, and sometimes a small number of other cabs as well; a musher. ===== Translations ===== === Etymology 7 === 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) (transitive) To notch, cut, or indent (cloth, etc.) with a stamp. ==== References ==== === Anagrams === HUMs, Hums, Shum, hums == Angloromani == === Etymology === Inherited from Romani murś. === Noun === mush (plural mushes) man ==== Descendants ==== → English: mush === References === “mush”, in Angloromani Dictionary‎[2], The Manchester Romani Project, 2004-2006, page 96