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Noun: mush  músh
  1. Any soft or soggy mass
    "he pounded it to a mush";
    - pulp
     
  2. Cornmeal boiled in water
    "Cornmeal mush was a staple breakfast in many rural households";
    - cornmeal mush [US]
     
  3. Writing or music that is excessively sweet and sentimental
    "The novel was criticized for its mush about family values";
    - treacle, slop [informal], glop [N. Amer, informal]
     
  4. A journey by dogsled
    "The Iditarod race is a gruelling mush across Alaska"
Verb: mush  músh
  1. Travel with a dogsled
    "They mushed across the frozen tundra";
    - dogsled
     
  2. Drive (a team of dogs or a dogsled)
    "The Iditarod racers mushed their teams through the Alaskan wilderness"
     
  3. Reduce to pulp
    "she mushed the banana with a fork";
    - pulp

Derived forms: mushed, mushes, mushing

Type of: bray [archaic], comminute [rare], crunch, drive, grind, hot cereal, journey, journeying, mash, mass, sentimentalism, sled [N. Amer], sledge, sleigh

Encyclopedia: Mush, John