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Perhaps unscripted reality shows and written fiction have already blurred together into some new amalgamated mush, just as the line between commercials and programs has been trashed.
Tom Shales

Meaning of "mush" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD MUSH

From obsolete moose porridge; probably related to mash; compare Old English mōs food.
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Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.
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PRONUNCIATION OF MUSH

mush  [mʌʃ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF MUSH

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Mush is a verb and can also act as a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb mush in English.

WHAT DOES MUSH MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Mush

Mush may refer to: ▪ mush , a kind of corn pudding or porridge Mush, MUSH, or Mushing may also refer to...

Definition of mush in the English dictionary

The first definition of mush in the dictionary is a soft pulpy mass or consistency. Other definition of mush is a thick porridge made from corn meal. Mush is also cloying sentimentality.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO MUSH

PRESENT

Present
I mush
you mush
he/she/it mushes
we mush
you mush
they mush
Present continuous
I am mushing
you are mushing
he/she/it is mushing
we are mushing
you are mushing
they are mushing
Present perfect
I have mushed
you have mushed
he/she/it has mushed
we have mushed
you have mushed
they have mushed
Present perfect continuous
I have been mushing
you have been mushing
he/she/it has been mushing
we have been mushing
you have been mushing
they have been mushing
Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past
I mushed
you mushed
he/she/it mushed
we mushed
you mushed
they mushed
Past continuous
I was mushing
you were mushing
he/she/it was mushing
we were mushing
you were mushing
they were mushing
Past perfect
I had mushed
you had mushed
he/she/it had mushed
we had mushed
you had mushed
they had mushed
Past perfect continuous
I had been mushing
you had been mushing
he/she/it had been mushing
we had been mushing
you had been mushing
they had been mushing
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future
I will mush
you will mush
he/she/it will mush
we will mush
you will mush
they will mush
Future continuous
I will be mushing
you will be mushing
he/she/it will be mushing
we will be mushing
you will be mushing
they will be mushing
Future perfect
I will have mushed
you will have mushed
he/she/it will have mushed
we will have mushed
you will have mushed
they will have mushed
Future perfect continuous
I will have been mushing
you will have been mushing
he/she/it will have been mushing
we will have been mushing
you will have been mushing
they will have been mushing
The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional
I would mush
you would mush
he/she/it would mush
we would mush
you would mush
they would mush
Conditional continuous
I would be mushing
you would be mushing
he/she/it would be mushing
we would be mushing
you would be mushing
they would be mushing
Conditional perfect
I would have mush
you would have mush
he/she/it would have mush
we would have mush
you would have mush
they would have mush
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been mushing
you would have been mushing
he/she/it would have been mushing
we would have been mushing
you would have been mushing
they would have been mushing
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative
you mush
we let´s mush
you mush
The imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Infinitive
to mush
Past participle
mushed
Present Participle
mushing
Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE MUSH

mush area
musha
Musharraf
mushed
mushed-up
musher
mushier
mushiest
mushily
mushiness
mushmouth
mushroom
mushroom cloud
mushroom growth
mushroom town
mushroomer
mushrooming
mushy
mushy peas

WORDS THAT END LIKE MUSH

airbrush
ambush
at a push
at first blush
blush
brush
bush
crush
flush
gold rush
hush
hush-hush
Kush
lush
plush
push
rush
the bush
the push
toothbrush

Synonyms and antonyms of mush in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «MUSH»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «mush» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of mush

Translation of «mush» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF MUSH

Find out the translation of mush to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of mush from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «mush» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

玉米粥
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

mush
570 millions of speakers

English

mush
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

गूदा
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الهريسه
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

месиво
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

mush
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

জাউ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

bouillie
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Lembab
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Brei
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

マッシュ
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

개 썰매
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Mush
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

hôn độn
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

கஞ்சி
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

भावुकपणा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

lapa
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

poltiglia
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

papka
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

місиво
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

terci
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

σαχλαμάρα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

Mush
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

mush
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

mush
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of mush

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «MUSH»

The term «mush» is quite widely used and occupies the 34.058 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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Principal search tendencies and common uses of mush
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «MUSH» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «mush» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «mush» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about mush

EXAMPLES

10 QUOTES WITH «MUSH»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word mush.
1
Marcia Angell
Just look at herbal remedies. It's essentially a throwback. It's saying you go to a plant and you mush it up and you stick it in the jar and you sell it and you eat it and it's going to cure what ails you. And that's the kind of stuff that people believed in the early 19th century.
2
Anne Carson
We're talking about the struggle to drag a thought over from the mush of the unconscious into some kind of grammar, syntax, human sense; every attempt means starting over with language. starting over with accuracy.
3
David Christian
An egg is a beautiful, sophisticated thing that can create even more sophisticated things, such as chickens. And we know in our heart of hearts that the universe does not travel from mush to complexity. In fact, this gut instinct is reflected in one of the most fundamental laws of physics, the second law of thermodynamics, or the law of entropy.
4
Torrey DeVitto
I do have the most adorable little Chihuahua mix. I adopted him about 3 1/2 years ago from Much Love pet adoption, and he has been the love of my life ever since. His name is Beau, or as my sister and I like to call him ' mushy mush' because he truly is just a pile of loving mush that just melts in your arms.
5
Felicity Huffman
It's only because I feel like such a philistine spending all that time in hair and makeup that I started to knit. I used to spend that time studying Italian and French. Then after I had two kids, my brain turned to mush and I took up knitting.
6
Jaron Lanier
When you have a global mush, people lose their identity, they become pseudonyms, they have no investment and no consequence in what they do.
7
Mickey Rooney
I came from a poor family. My father was from Glasgow, Scotland; my mother's brothers were brakemen on the railroad. We didn't have anything but mush for breakfast.
8
Tom Shales
Perhaps unscripted reality shows and written fiction have already blurred together into some new amalgamated mush, just as the line between commercials and programs has been trashed.
9
Billy Strayhorn
Romance is mush, stifling those who strive.
10
Suki Waterhouse
I will do crazy skincare things in the kitchen... I love coconut oil, so if I come home at night feeling all dry and like a fossil, I'll put my hand in a jar of coconut oil and just mush it over my face.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MUSH»

Discover the use of mush in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to mush and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Mush!: Sled Dogs with Issues
Follows the office politics of six sled dogs and the isolated lives of two humans living in the Alaskan wilderness.
Glenn Eichler, 2011
2
Mush
Seventy year old Clay Morgan and two of his sons are taking a three thousand mile, cross country road trip mostly down Route 66, to his third son's wedding.
Clay Morgan Wiilson IV, 2010
3
Undersea Warrior: The World War II Story of Mush Morton and ...
Recounts the life of the colorful and dynamic World War II submarine skipper who helmed the USS Wahoo and attacked the Japanese so often, he continually used up his supply of torpedoes in record time. 30,000 first printing.
Don Keith, 2012
4
Mush's Jazz Adventure
Daniel Pinkwater. "I have three kinds of sandwiches: sliced cucumbers and butter , peanut butter and sliced strawberries on whole wheat, and cream cheese with black pepper and honey." These were all sandwiches Mush had taught me to ...
Daniel Pinkwater, 2002
5
Mish and Mush Set, Pesach/Shevuos (5 Bo
Shani Diamond, Sarah Baila Teleshevsky, Nissa Niasoff. On the way home from Shul, Busy Bubby smiled at Mish and Mush. "There's a special Shavuos surprise waiting for you at home," she said. v I <^ ...
Shani Diamond, Sarah Baila Teleshevsky, Nissa Niasoff, 2007
6
Mish and Mush Set, Shabbos (5 Books)
Aroond the veer and growing up Ь* Ф •• ^ »" 4H , Other Mish and Mush sets to Shavuos Books in this set Set No 1 Shabbos ISBN 978-1877039-10-2. I. Tick Tick Tick ;i sloiv alnuil UL-llin» ready for Shahhos Л Л whole week l'or Shahhos a sluiy  ...
Shani Diamond, Sarah Baila Teleshevsky, Nissa Niasoff, 2007
7
Navajo/English Dictionary of Verbs
mix it (a bowl of mush) Áhát'íinii: /ta na a ji O gizh/-> [tani'jigizh] Naadáá' dootfizhí yik'áago tó yibéezhgo, biih yijaa'go, dóó yéego dits'idgo hahineesmasgo, éí tanaazhgiizh yileeh, ákót'éehgo éí tani'jigizh wolyé. Verb: to mix blue corn mush;  ...
Alyse Neundorf, 2006
8
Survival Skills of Native California
Mush that had stuck to the stone hardened and was peeled off or fell to the bottom of the basket. After the water had been drained the pieces of congealed mush were eaten or returned to the cooking basket. The meal mixture from the third ...
Paul Douglas Campbell, 1999
9
Language Shift and Cultural Reproduction: Socialization, ...
... kid bus bus mush mush bush bush bush mush mush bush yu bus mangi bus mangi yu you bush kid bush kid you bus mangi mush mush bush kid mush mush bus mangi mush mush bush kid mush mush [Seeing their 7-year-old sister, Yapa,  ...
‎1997
10
Cafe Indiana: A Guide to Indiana’s Down-Home Cafes
Adventure eaters who come in search of breakfast would not be qualified to carry membership cards if they left without sampling the cornmeal mush with tomato gravy, or the headcheese. Mush is made by cooking cornmeal in boiling water, ...
Joanne Raetz Stuttgen, 2007

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «MUSH»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term mush is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Which F1 teams should be optimistic for the Hungarian Grand Prix?
... has generally performed better when the tyres have been softer and/or track temperatures have been high enough to turn the rubber to mush. «autosport.com, Jul 15»
2
Sharknado 3: Oh Hell No! Review
... her words and marginalized for most of the movie, but now Hasselhoff's arrived to help accentuate the mush-mouthed mumbling of it all. «IGN, Jul 15»
3
Microbes may be a forensic tool for time of death
“We sampled until things turned to mush and we couldn't find the intestines anymore,” DeBruyn says. While the research is preliminary, the ... «Science News, Jul 15»
4
To create religious harmony, we must first build the chords
... needed to reflect that pluralism without my watering down my own Christian faith in favor of some kind of syncretistic theological mush. «National Catholic Reporter, Jul 15»
5
The man who calls the games
"We were just brushing them (his notes) off as well as we could, but I've got a book which, essentially, turned to mush," laughs Reed. «Hamilton Spectator, Jul 15»
6
Meet 'Fried Jesus,' the State Fair Food Genius Who Invented Deep …
To be considered in its preparation: whether the pineapple moisture or batter will turn to mush in the 375-degree oil, how the whipped cream ... «Munchies_ Food by VICE, Jul 15»
7
Save your brains by blowing the heads off Stupid Zombies 3
You can crush them to mush using the crates, tires, and other junk you find in each level. The idea is to maximize how much carnage you inflict ... «AppAdvice, Jul 15»
8
One Thing at a Time
So in the meantime, my brain has turned to a bit of a pile of mush from all the stress. Granted, I know what this is from (my adrenal fatigue ... «Beliefnet, Jul 15»
9
Celebrating the Sci-Fi Movies of Jeff Goldblum
Even as The Fly descends into a mush of goo and prosthetic effects, it's the impact of Goldblum's humane performance that drives the film. «Den of Geek!, Jul 15»
10
Updated: County commissioners' chairman Gantt won't run again
... municipalities in communities ranging from Sandy Mush to downtown Asheville. The chairman is the only board member elected countywide. «Asheville Citizen-Times, Jul 15»

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