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Originally Posted by glowrider
My Yukon Denali drove like mush. The worst driving experience I've ever had in a truck. My ex's Envoy Denali, however, was much better.
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mush
?noun
1. meal, esp. cornmeal, boiled in water or milk until it forms a thick, soft mass, or until it is stiff enough to mold into a loaf for slicing and frying.
2. any thick, soft mass.
3. mawkish sentimentality or amorousness.
4. anything unpleasantly or contemptibly lacking in coherence, force, dignity, etc.: His entire argument was simply mush.
?verb (used with object)
5. to squeeze or crush; crunch: to mush all the candy together in a sticky ball.
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[Origin: 1665?75, Americanism; obscurely akin to mash1]
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?verb (used without object)
1. to go or travel, esp. over snow with a dog team and sled.
?verb (used with object)
2. to drive or spur on (sled dogs or a sled drawn by dogs).
?interjection
3. go! (used as an order to start or speed up a dog team)
?noun
4. a trip or journey, esp. across snow and ice with a dog team.
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[Origin: 1895?1900; perh. orig. as phrasal v. mush on! < CanF, F marchons! let's go!; see march1]
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American Heritage Dictionary - Cite This Source
v. mushed, mush?ing, mush?es
v. intr.
To travel, especially over snow with a dogsled.
v. tr.
To drive (a dogsled or team of dogs).
n.
A journey, especially by dogsled.
interj.
Used to command a team of dogs to begin pulling or move faster.
[Possibly alteration of French marchons, first person pl. imperative of marcher, to walk, go, from Old French. See march1.]
musher n.
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n.
A thick porridge or pudding of cornmeal boiled in water or milk.
Something thick, soft, and pulpy.
Informal.
Mawkish sentimentality, affection, or amorousness.
tr.v. mushed, mush?ing, mush?es
To reduce to mush; mash or crush.
[Probably alteration of mash.]
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WordNet - Cite This Source
mush
n
1: any soft or soggy mass; "he pounded it to a pulp" [syn: pulp]
2: cornmeal boiled in water [syn: cornmeal mush]
3: an expression that is excessively sweet and sentimental [syn: treacle]
4: a journey by dogsled
v
1: drive (a team of dogs or a dogsled)
2: travel with a dogsled
WordNet? 2.0, ? 2003 Princeton University
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MUSH
1. <games> Multi-User Shared Hallucination.
2. <messaging> Mail Users' Shell.
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, ? 1993 Denis Howe
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mush [maʃ] noun
something soft and wet
Example: The potatoes have turned to mush after being boiled for so long. Arabic: شَيءٌ ناعِم ورَطْب
Chinese (Simplified): 糊状物
Chinese (Traditional): 糊狀物
Czech: ka?e
Danish: gr?d
Dutch: brij
Estonian: sodi
Finnish: sose
French: bouillie
German: der Brei
Greek: πολτός,χυλός
Hungarian: p?p
Icelandic: ?ykkt mauk
Indonesian: bubur
Italian: poltiglia
Japanese: どろどろしたもの
Korean: 걸죽한 것, 물컹한 것
Latvian: kaut kas mīksts un slapj?, putra
Lithuanian: ko?ė
Norwegian: gr?tet masse
Polish: papka
Portuguese (Brazil): papa
Portuguese (Portugal): papa
Romanian: piure
Russian: кашица
Slovak: ka?a
Slovenian: ka?a
Spanish: papilla, pasta
Swedish: mos, r?ra, gr?t, s?rja
Turkish: l?pa