noun · countable / uncountable · rare

mush

mush · mushes

чашка, кухоль

каша

Brei, Matsch, Polenta, Maisbrei

A somewhat liquid mess, often of foodA somewhat liquid mess, often of food; a soft or semisolid substance.

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UK/mʌʃ/US/mʊʃ/

» After running ten kilometers, my legs felt like mush.

Meaning

12 senses

(countable, uncountable)A somewhat liquid mess, often of food; a soft or semisolid substance.
Matsch, Brei
кашаkáša
(countable, uncountable)A mixture of noise produced by the harmonics of continuous-wave stations.
(countable, uncountable)The foam of a breaker.
(countable, uncountable)A magmatic body containing a significant proportion of crystals suspended in the liquid phase or melt.
(Multicultural London English, countable, uncountable)A gun.
Do you want me to back out the mush, bruv?
(countable, uncountable)A food comprising cracked or rolled grains cooked in water or milk; porridge.
Maisbrei, Polenta
(countable, uncountable)Cornmeal cooked in water and served as a porridge or as a thick sidedish like grits or mashed potatoes.
cornmeal boiled in water
A walk, especially across the snow with dogs.
(Quebec, slang)A magic mushroom.
(Southern England, UK, slang)(US, slang, chiefly Nonantum) A form of address, normally to a man.
Oy mush, come over here and gimme a hand with the motor.
(Australia, Northern England, UK, slang)The face.
(London, slang)A cab driver who is the owner of their cab, and sometimes a small number of other cabs as well; a musher.

Examples

5 sentences

After running ten kilometers, my legs felt like mush.
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The banana turned to mush in the bottom of the bag.
ruБанан на дне сумки превратился в кашу.
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What is this mush?
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When you're chewing something you're eating, it gets mushed into a mass called a bolus, which you then swallow.
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It's dazzling how a couple of million cells embedded in an electrochemical mush give rise to the gestalt of human consciousness.
deEs ist verblüffend, wie ein paar Millionen in einem elektrochemischen Brei eingebettete Zellen dem menschlichen Bewusstsein Gestalt verleihen.
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Translations

5 languages

Русский

By meaning 1

semiliquid substance:

Deutsch

By meaning 2

semiliquid substance:

food comprising cracked or rolled grains cooked in water or milk, porridge:

Origin

Probably a variant of mash, or from a dialectal variant of Middle English mos (“mush, pulp

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”).

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 (“march”) 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).

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