goosh

present singular third person gooshes · participle present gooshing · participle past gooshed · past gooshed

1. informalTo move in a messy, liquid manner.

   The ground gooshed in places, soggy from the winter rains.

   1990, Sandra Dengler, East of Outback (Australian Destiny Book #4), Baker Books, →ISBN

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   In a way, it's rather useful to have your body remind you on a regular basis that there's healthy red stuff gooshing around inside you, just below the surface […]

   1999, H. Mel Malton, Cue the Dead Guy: A Polly Deacon Mystery, page 202

   I waded out, my hair streaming water down my back, my toes gooshing deliciously in the mud.

   2006, Evelyn Vaughn, Grail Keepers Duo, page 71

2. informalTo gush.

   As the coffee gooshes into a cup, I imagine that dysfunctional family dynamic.

   2018, Hank Phillippi Ryan, Trust Me: A Novel, Forge Books, →ISBN

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   More fluid gooshed forth, arching beautifully and descending to strike Prior's arm. It was hot and gooey and repulsive.

   2002, Piers Anthony, Pornucopia

   In layman's terms, your husband/boyfriend/donor spooges into a jar and then the contents of that jar are gooshed up your puss with a turkey baster. SCIENCE!

   2016, Jessi Klein, You'll Grow Out of It, Grand Central Publishing, →ISBN

3. informalTo smush, to smash.

   Calvin: Here's a bug plodding resolutely across the dirt. […] If he's mocking me, I'm gonna goosh him.

   a. 1994, Bill Watterson, Homicidal Psycho Jungle Cat, Andrews McMeel, page 153

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   It was like walking on gooshed together marshmallows: a bit sticky, but doable. Have you ever gooshed marshmallows? It's kind of messy, but lots of fun. You take a few of those large marshmallows in your fingers and pull them apart and stuff them together over and over until they become one big sticky blob.

   2010, Joe Knotts, The Green Bear Stories, Dog Ear Publishing, →ISBN, page 69

   Risu looked for the bees but they were nowhere to be found—not even a gooshed one, and surely she must've gooshed at least a few during her frantic swatting. Pesky things. A movement to the left attracted her eye.

   2019, Stanley Bruce Carter, The Depraved Dances of Taram Zhod, Gypsy Shadow Publishing, →ISBN, page 94

1. uncountableThat which is gushy; cloying sentimentality

   And, hey, if they're evil in one life, they might be good in another (if there's any truth at all in that goosh about "I have stood at your side, LTT, in a gazillion battles and faced you in as many" that various and sundry have spewed at Rand.

   1997 December 20, Kristi, “Wheel Repeating (was Re: Egwene)”, in rec.arts.sf.written.robert-jordan (Usenet)

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   What girls are saying is: "Don't treat me like that, treat me like this." Which Nancy Sinatra initially did with "These Boots Are Made For Walking"! […] And it's not the same as "Take another piece of my heart, now," and "Baby love, baby love" — all that kind of goosh.

   1980 October, Jane Goldman, quoting Debbie Harry, “Talking To Blondie”, in Forum