mush

mush · noun, verb¹

1. Proto-Indo-European · derived from*meh₂d-“wet, fat, dripping”
2. Proto-Germanic · inherited from*mōsą“porridge, food”
3. Proto-West Germanic · inherited from*mōs
4. Old English · inherited frommōs“food, victuals, porridge, mush”
5. Middle English · inherited frommos“mush, pulp, porridge”
6. English todaymush

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”).

mush · noun²

1. Goidelic · derived from
2. Old High German · derived frommuos
3. English todaymush

From Old High German muos and Goidelic mus (“a pap”) or muss (“a porridge”), or any thick preparation of fruit.

mush · interjection, noun, verb³

1. Proto-Germanic · derived from*markōną“to mark; to notice”
2. Frankish · derived from*markōn
3. Old French · derived frommarchier
4. Middle French · derived frommarcher
5. French · derived frommarche“march”
6. English todaymush

Believed to be a contraction of mush on, from Michif, in turn a corruption of French marche (“march”) 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”).

mush · noun⁴

Simple contraction of mushroom.

mush · noun⁵

1. Sanskrit · derived fromमनुष्य“human being, man”
2. Romani · derived frommursh
3. Angloromani · borrowed frommush“man”
4. English todaymush

From Angloromani mush (“man”), from Romani mursh, from Sanskrit मनुष्य (manuṣya, “human being, man”).

mush · noun⁶

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).

mush · verb⁷

Compare French moucheter (“to cut with small cuts”).

Mush · proper noun⁸

1. Armenian · borrowed fromՄուշ
2. English todayMush

Borrowed from Armenian Մուշ (Muš).

MUSH · noun⁹

Modelled on earlier MUD; usually explained as "multi-user shared hallucination" (or "hack", "habitat", etc.).

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