mush
/mʌʃ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.99 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A mixture of noise produced by the harmonics of continuous-wave stations.
Countable; Uncountable
noun
A magmatic body containing a significant proportion of crystals suspended in the liquid phase or melt.
Countable; Uncountable
verb
To squish so as to break into smaller pieces or to combine with something else.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "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."
- "Do you want me to back out the mush, bruv?"
- "He mushed the ingredients together."
- "One must compartmentalize one's life and not let different facets/experiences mush over into one another."
- "However, they did make and sometimes even bake cornmeal mushes that could be either sweetened or fortified with fat."
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”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /mʌʃ/
- British English: /mʌʃ/