单词 | mushy |
释义 | mushy (mʌʃi ) Word forms: mushier, mushiest 1. adjective Vegetables and fruit that are mushy are soft and have lost most of their shape. When the fruit is mushy and cooked, remove from the heat. Synonyms: soft, squidgy [informal], slushy, squashy 2. adjective If you describe someone or something as mushy, you mean that they are very sentimental. [disapproval] Don't go getting all mushy and sentimental. Synonyms: sentimental, emotional, wet [British, informal], sloppy [informal] Collocations: mushy stuff Leave the warm, mushy stuff for the hatches and matches: dispatches should be spiky affairs. Times, Sunday Times But the mushy stuff below - the pathos, the empathy, the disquiet - kept soaking through. Times, Sunday Times If you can get past the mushy stuff, there's fine writing here. Times, Sunday Times They predict that the film will go down well with those liking mushy stuff. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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