mush
from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
mush
n 1: any soft or soggy mass; "he pounded it to a pulp" [syn:
{pulp}, {mush}]
2: cornmeal boiled in water [syn: {mush}, {cornmeal mush}]
3: writing or music that is excessively sweet and sentimental
[syn: {treacle}, {mush}, {slop}, {glop}]
4: a journey by dogsled
v 1: drive (a team of dogs or a dogsled)
2: travel with a dogsled [syn: {dogsled}, {mush}]
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Mush \Mush\, n. [Perh. short for mush on, a corrupt of E.
marchons, the cry of the voyageurs and coureurs de bois to
their dogs.]
A march on foot, esp. across the snow with dogs; as, he had a
long mush before him; -- also used attributively. [Colloq.,
Alaska & Northwestern U. S.]
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
126 Moby Thesaurus words for "mush":
airing, amble, bathos, bazoo, bleeding heart, breakfast food,
butter, cataplasm, cereal, chaps, chops, cloyingness,
constitutional, cornflakes, countenance, crush, dental pulp, dial,
dry cereal, embouchure, face, facies, farina, favor, features,
forced march, frumenty, gab, gob, goo, grits, gruel, hasty pudding,
hearts-and-flowers, hike, hominy grits, hot cereal, jaunt, jaw,
jaws, jowls, kasha, kisser, lineaments, lips, loblolly, mandibles,
map, march, mash, maudlinness, maw, mawkishness, maxilla, millet,
mouth, mug, mushiness, muzzle, namby-pamby, namby-pambyism,
namby-pambyness, nostalgia, nostomania, oatmeal, oral cavity,
oversentimentalism, oversentimentality, pan, paper pulp, parade,
paste, peripatetic journey, peripateticism, phiz, physiognomy,
pith, plaster, porridge, poultice, premaxilla, promenade, pudding,
puffed rice, puffed wheat, pulp, pulp lead, pulpwood, puss,
rag pulp, ramble, rolled oats, romanticism, row, sauce, saunter,
schlep, sentiment, sentimentalism, sentimentality, slop,
sloppiness, slush, smash, soap opera, sob story, sponge, squash,
stretch, stroll, sulfate pulp, sulfite pulp, sweetness and light,
tearjerker, traipse, tramp, trap, trudge, turn, visage, walk,
walking tour, wheatflakes, white lead, wood pulp, yap
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