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- 1 A directive given (usually to dogs or a horse) to start moving, or to move faster.
""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."
- 1 A historically Armenian city in the Turuberan province of Greater Armenia, now in eastern Turkey.
- 2 A province of Turkey.
- 1 A somewhat liquid mess, often of food; a soft or semisolid substance. countable, uncountable
"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."
- 2 A food comprising cracked or rolled grains cooked in water or milk; porridge. countable, uncountable
- 3 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."
- 4 A magic mushroom. Quebec, slang
- 5 (US, slang, chiefly Nonantum) A form of address, normally to a man. British, Southern-England, slang
"Oy mush, come over here and gimme a hand with the motor."
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- 6 A cab driver who is the owner of their cab, and sometimes a small number of other cabs as well; a musher. London, slang
- 7 A form of multi-user dungeon, often used for online social intercourse and role-playing games.
- 8 a journey by dogsled wordnet
- 9 A mixture of noise produced by the harmonics of continuous-wave stations. countable, uncountable
- 10 Cornmeal cooked in water and served as a porridge or as a thick sidedish like grits or mashed potatoes. countable, uncountable
"However, they did make and sometimes even bake cornmeal mushes that could be either sweetened or fortified with fat."
- 11 The face. Australia, British, Northern-England, slang
- 12 writing or music that is excessively sweet and sentimental wordnet
- 13 The foam of a breaker. countable, uncountable
"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."
- 14 cornmeal boiled in water wordnet
- 15 A magmatic body containing a significant proportion of crystals suspended in the liquid phase or melt. countable, uncountable
- 16 any soft or soggy mass wordnet
- 17 A gun. Multicultural-London-English, countable, uncountable
"Do you want me to back out the mush, bruv?"
- 1 To squish so as to break into smaller pieces or to combine with something else.
"He mushed the ingredients together."
- 2 To walk, especially across the snow with dogs. intransitive
- 3 To notch, cut, or indent (cloth, etc.) with a stamp. transitive
- 4 travel with a dogsled wordnet
- 5 To drive dogs, usually pulling a sled, across the snow. transitive
"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."
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- 6 drive (a team of dogs or a dogsled) wordnet
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”).
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”).
From Old High German muos and Goidelic mus (“a pap”) or muss (“a porridge”), or any thick preparation of fruit.
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”).
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”).
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”).
Simple contraction of mushroom.
From Angloromani mush (“man”), from Romani mursh, from Sanskrit मनुष्य (manuṣya, “human being, man”).
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).
Compare French moucheter (“to cut with small cuts”).
Borrowed from Armenian Մուշ (Muš).
Modelled on earlier MUD; usually explained as "multi-user shared hallucination" (or "hack", "habitat", etc.).
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