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▪ I. † smush, a. Sc. Obs.—1
(Meaning uncertain; perhaps a later form of smoch a.)
1629Z. Boyd Balm of Gilead 107 He..seeth him gaping for lyfe lyke a hungry dogge gaping for a smush bone.
▪ II. smush, n.|smʌʃ|
[Alteration of mush n.1: cf. smash n.1]
1. = mush n.1 3 a; a messy pulp. dial.
1825Jamieson Sc. Dict. (Suppl.) II. 429/1 Gane to smush, reduced to a friable or crumbled state, like potatoes too much boiled, &c. 1929D. H. Lawrence Pansies 130 Then suddenly the mastodon rose with the wonderful lady And trampled all the listeners to a smush.
2. The mouth; = mush n.1 3 d. U.S. slang. rare.
1930[see haul v. 3 c]. 1935D. Runyon in Hearst's Jan. 160/2 He grabs Miss Amelia Bodkin in his arms and kisses her kerplump on the smush.
▪ III. smush, v. colloq. and dial. (now chiefly U.S.).|smʌʃ|
[Alteration of mush v.2: cf. smash v.1 and smush n.]
trans. To mash or crush.
1825Jamieson Suppl., Smush,..to bruise; to reduce to small particles; to grind to powder, Roxb. 1887T. Darlington Folk-Speech S. Cheshire 353 ‘Smushin' the crud’ (curd) is a regular operation of cheese-making, and by many dairy-maids is done by squeezing it through the fingers. 1914Dialect Notes IV. 156 [Cape Cod] Smush v., mash... Used only in a figurative sense or when the product is wet. ‘He smushed the clam.’ 1987J. Wilcox Miss Undine's Living Room iv. 46 He sank onto the foot of the bed, smushing a box of Cap'n Crunch. |