mush

Plural: mushes

Noun

any soft or soggy mass
cornmeal boiled in water
writing or music that is excessively sweet and sentimental
a journey by dogsled
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 gun.
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.
(US, slang, chiefly Nonantum) A form of address, normally to a man.
The face.
A cab driver who is the owner of their cab, and sometimes a small number of other cabs as well; a musher.

Verb

Verb Forms: mushed, mushing, mushes

To travel across snow with a dog sled.
drive (a team of dogs or a dogsled)
travel with a dogsled
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.

Intj

A directive given (usually to dogs or a horse) to start moving, or to move faster.

Examples

Do you want me to back out the mush, bruv?
He mushed the ingredients together.
He tried to MUSH through his low-vowel rack, hoping to find a path to a better score.
Oy mush, come over here and gimme a hand with the motor.

Origin / Etymology

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”).

Synonyms

cornmeal mush, dogsled, glop, pulp, slop, treacle, mate, mug, pal, shroom

Scrabble Score: 9

mush: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
mush: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
mush: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 10

mush: valid Words With Friends Word