mush

plural mushes · alternative moosh

1. countableuncountableA somewhat liquid mess, often of food; a soft or semisolid substance.

   His food is of the coarsest kind, consisting for the most part of cornmeal mush, which often finds its way from the wooden tray to his mouth in an oyster shell.

   1855, Frederick Douglass, chapter 1, in My Bondage and My Freedom. […], New York; Auburn, N.Y.: Miller, Orton & Mulligan […], →OCLC

2. countableuncountablebroadcastingA mixture of noise produced by the harmonics of continuous-wave stations.
3. countableuncountablehobbiesThe foam of a breaker.

   And Rincon was all about surfing. Flash back thirty-odd years, to a skinny kid on a Styrofoam belly-board, pin-wheeling out into the mush of Jacksonville Beach, Florida.

   2008, Bucky McMahon, Night Diver, page 80

4. countableuncountablegeographyA magmatic body containing a significant proportion of crystals suspended in the liquid phase or melt.
5. Multicultural London EnglishcountableuncountableA gun.

   Do you want me to back out the mush, bruv?

present singular third person mushes · participle present mushing · participle past mushed · past mushed · alternative moosh

1. To squish so as to break into smaller pieces or to combine with something else.

   He mushed the ingredients together.

   1 more example

   One must compartmentalize one's life and not let different facets/experiences mush over into one another.

   1981 August 15, Loraine Obler, “Sleeping Beauty Recast”, in Gay Community News, volume 9, number 5, page 17

plural mushes

1. countableuncountableA food comprising cracked or rolled grains cooked in water or milk; porridge.
2. countableuncountablerustic USCornmeal cooked in water and served as a porridge or as a thick sidedish like grits or mashed potatoes.

   However, they did make and sometimes even bake cornmeal mushes that could be either sweetened or fortified with fat.

   2007, Andrew F. Smith, The Oxford Companion to American Food and Drink

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

   1 more example

   "An' of course the dogs can hike along all day with that contraption behind them," affirmed a second of the men. / "Certainly," said Hal, with freezing politeness, taking hold of the gee-pole with one hand and swinging his whip from the other. "Mush!" he shouted. "Mush on there!" / The dogs sprang against the breast-bands, strained hard for a few moments, then relaxed. They were unable to move the sled.

   1903 July, Jack London, “The Toil of Trace and Trail”, in The Call of the Wild, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., →OCLC, pages 130–131

plural mushes

1. A walk, especially across the snow with dogs.

   The White House posted a cartoon to X on Wednesday of two Greenlandic mush teams with three huskies each, pointing towards the choice of the white pillars and the South Lawn or a tempestuous scene by the Great Wall of China and Red Square in Russia.

   2026 January 14, Ben Makuch, “White House post nods to racist, far-right subculture, extremism expert says”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 15 Jan 2026

present singular third person mushes · participle present mushing · participle past mushed · past mushed

1. intransitiveTo walk, especially across the snow with dogs.

   [skiing] It's as beautiful as you always described it, Sam. / I think we'd make better time on the dog sled. You in the mood to mush?

   2019, Bob Smiley, “Cocaine Pills and Pony Meat” (17:50 from the start), in Victor Nelli Jr., director, Atypical, season 3, episode 3, spoken by Julia and Sam (Amy Okuda and Keir Gilchrist), via Netflix

2. transitiveTo drive dogs, usually pulling a sled, across the snow.

   Together the two men loaded and lashed the sled. They warmed their hands for the last time, pulled on their mittens, and mushed the dogs over the bank and down to the river-trail.

   1910, Jack London, Burning Daylight, part 1 chapter 4

plural mushes

1. QuebecslangA magic mushroom.

   Synonyms: shroom

plural mushes

1. Southern EnglandUKslang(US, slang, chiefly Nonantum) A form of address, normally to a man.

   Oy mush, come over here and gimme a hand with the motor.

   1 more example

   "Hey, Mush!" Tony Pellegrino called to Michael standing on the other side of the street.

   2018, Brenda Spalding, Bottle Alley, Heritage Publishing, →ISBN, chapter 1

   Synonyms: mate, pal

2. AustraliaNorthern EnglandUKslangThe face.

   Synonyms: mug

plural mushes

1. LondonslangA cab driver who is the owner of their cab, and sometimes a small number of other cabs as well; a musher.

present singular third person mushes · participle present mushing · participle past mushed · past mushed

1. transitiveTo notch, cut, or indent (cloth, etc.) with a stamp.

alternative Muş

1. A historically Armenian city in the Turuberan province of Greater Armenia, now in eastern Turkey.
2. A province of Turkey.

plural MUSHes

1. A form of multi-user dungeon, often used for online social intercourse and role-playing games.