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单词 mush
释义 mush
I. \ˈməsh, chiefly dial ˈmu̇sh\ noun
(-es)
Etymology: probably alteration of mash
1. : cornmeal boiled in water, eaten hot as a cereal or pudding, fried as cakes, or molded until cold and then sliced and fried — compare hasty pudding
2. : something having the consistency of cornmeal mush
 < perspired so much the cast under his armpits … turned to mush — Earle Birney >
3. : something soft and spongy or shapeless: as
 a. : a formless mass
 b. : weak sentimentality or mawkish amorousness : drivel
  < oratorical mush >
  < the tenderness never becomes mush — Coulton Waugh >
  < it isn't youthful romance, it's the mush of senility — Erle Stanley Gardner >
 c. slang : mouth, face
  < slammed him in the mush with the ball, and his eyes watered — J.T.Farrell >
II. verb
(-ed/-ing/-es)
transitive verb
1. chiefly dialect : to reduce to or mix up in a crumbly mass : crush, pulverize — often used with up
 < mush up papier-mâché animals — R.L.Shayon >
2. slang : to make amorously sentimental — used with up
 < he would mush it up and … we would sway sweet and slow — R.P.Warren >
intransitive verb
1. : to give way : crumble, squash
 < does not mush down — advt >
 < the top of the pile sank, the lower logs mushing out toward the water — Mich. Log Marks >
2. of an airplane
 a. : to fly in a half-stalled condition with controls ineffective
  < throttled back and mushed in — Walt Sheldon >
 b. : to fail to gain altitude or to lose it when the angle of attack would normally indicate a gain
  < he was miles high, mushing, nearly slumping, in the rare air — J.G.Cozzens >
3. slang : to be effusive : gush; especially : to make love in public
III. \ˈməsh\ noun
(-es)
Etymology: short for mushroom
slang : umbrella
IV. \ˈməsh, chiefly dial ˈmu̇sh\ verb
(-ed/-ing/-es)
Etymology: probably from American French moucher to go fast, from French mouche fly, from Latin musca — more at midge
intransitive verb
: to hike or travel especially over snow with a dogsled
 < mush over a wilderness that no sled track has ever crossed before — Klondy Nelson >
 < huskies bark excitedly as they mush across the ice and snow — Robert Meyer >
— often used in the imperative as a command to a dog team
 < snapped the long lash of his whip … cried mush — Frederick Palmer >
transitive verb
: to urge (a dog team) forward
 < the driver mushed the dogs — Nan Dorland >
: transport by means of a dog team
V. noun
(-es)
: a hike especially across snow with a dog team
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