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mushy, a. colloq.|ˈmʌʃɪ|
[f. mush n.1 + -y.]
1. Soft, pulpy; also fig.
1839Southern Lit. Messenger V. 209/2, I soon recognized old Noth Calinur in their nasal mushy pronunciation. 1880‘Mark Twain’ Tramp Abr. xxvi. 267 Mushy, slushy early spring roads. 1883Pall Mall G. 18 Sept. 12/1 It is poured into a machine in a thick, mushy state. 1952M. Tripp Faith is Windsock ii. 34 Unfortunately reception was indistinct and towns showed vague and mushy, making identification acutely difficult. 1962Which? (Suppl.) July 86/2 Its handling was described as ‘mushy’ and our drivers said that it tended to ‘wallow’ in corners.
2. fig. Tender, sentimental, insipid. Also as adv.
1870Nation (N.Y.) 3 Feb. 67 The death penalty is disappearing, like some better things, before a kind of mushy and unthinking doubt of its morality and expediency. 1876Geo. Eliot Dan Der. xlvi, She's not mushy, but her heart is tender. 1913G. S. Porter Laddie vii. 220 They formed a circle around Sally and Peter and as mushy as ever they could they sang, ‘As sure as the grass grows around the stump, You are my darling sugar lump,’ while they danced. 1928G. B. Shaw Intell. Woman's Guide Socialism 458 You may..be a sharp, cynical sort of person; or you may be a nice, mushy, amiable, goodnatured one. 1951J. D. Salinger Catcher in Rye xvi. 137 She sings it very Dixieland and whore-house, and it doesn't sound at all mushy. 1971Wodehouse Much Obliged, Jeeves i. 7 [Marriage] wouldn't have fitted in with my plans at all, she though physically in the pin-up class, being as mushy a character as ever broke biscuit. 1974L. Lamb Man in Mist i. 12 Some mushy mag. She calls that a book!
3. (See quots. and cf. mush n.1 4.)
1924Harmsworth's Wireless Encycl. II. 1456 A mushy note is one which is not absolutely definite or clear cut, and so hard to read. It is a note received by the heterodyne method when damped wires or modulated continuous waves are being received. 1937Printers' Ink Monthly May 39/3 Mushy, poor musical definition of an orchestral pickup.
4. Surfing. (See quots.)
1967J. Severson Great Surfing Gloss., Mushy, a slow, sloppy wave that has little power. 1969Surfer IX. No. 6, 69 My little board's good for mushy waves, but when it's five foot or over and fast, I use the other. 1972R. Abbott Science of Surfing v. 83 It is sometimes possible to ‘beat’ breaking sections, although this is easiest if the waves are ‘mushy’. |