mush
/mʌʃ/
noun
- A soft, thick, wet mass or mixture, especially of food.
- The heavy rain turned the dirt path into brown mush.
- She overcooked the oatmeal until it became a tasteless mush.
- For breakfast, the campers ate a bowl of corn mush with syrup.
- Sentimental or cloying talk or writing; nonsense.
- His speech was just sentimental mush that didn't say anything important.
- The movie was full of romantic mush and had no real plot.
- I can't read those greeting cards; they're all mush.
verb
- To reduce something to a soft, pulpy mass.
- He accidentally mushed the strawberries while packing them.
- The toddler mushed the banana in her fist.
- The chef mushed the avocado to make guacamole.
- To travel over snow with a dog sled.
- Every winter, the racers mush across the frozen tundra.
- She learned to mush when she moved to Alaska.
- The team of huskies mushed through the blizzard without stopping.
interjection
- A command given to dogs to start pulling or to move faster.
- With a loud "Mush!" she signaled the dogs to begin the race.
- "Mush!" shouted the musher, and the dogs leaped forward.
- The racer yelled "Mush!" to urge his team up the hill.