mush
18
3.6
- noun
- /mʌʃ/
- US
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- For breakfast, I usually have a bowl of mush made from cornmeal and hot water.
- cornmeal mush
So my head was mush for a year till while my skull reformed.
- So my head was mush for a year till while my skull reformed.
- I made him go hush by putting some Ambien in the dinner mush.
- He had to walk the end of it because it was all like muddy mush.
- Today we're breaking down Mayim Bialik, literally reducing her to a pool of mush.
- Give them a kind of remasticated mush that confirms their bias.
- And then you wind up with mush and that's nothing.
- Give them a kind of remasticated mush that confirms their biases.
- So like washed the the clean mush like feet off.
Examples
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Mail-order sales have gone to homesick liver mush fans all over the country.
Blog text (1) -
By the time the codfish reached China, the flesh was mush and tasteless.
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My mind was turning into mush.
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It's all been turned to mush!
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Good night, bowl of mush.
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Did your brains turn to mush?
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We had been living on old dry mush for about three weeks, which is why Grandpa complained.
Fiction book (2001) -
My brother also loves liver mush, but the rest of our relatives passed on that!
Blog text (1) -
This sherbet's turning to mush.
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Through most of the week, we ate cornmeal mush for breakfast and corn pones for bread.
Fiction book (2002)
Synonyms
36
4.3
A soft mixture of crushed grains used in brewing or as animal feed
27
1.0
Soft warm food made by boiling oats in milk or water until thick
26
3.9
A soft wet mass of crushed material often used to make paper
1
4.0
A thick hot porridge made by boiling cornmeal in water
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Etymology
Mush for soft porridge likely comes from an old word that copies the squishy sound of soft food, and you can remember it like mash, which also means to crush food. So mush means a 'soft' or pulpy food you eat, like thick corn porridge.