Mush Definition
- a sentiment about sentiment
- maudlinism
- sob stuff
- hearts and flowers
- flap-doodle
- gush
- puppy-love
- romanticism
- exaggerated sentiment
- superficial sentiment
- superficiality
- affectation
- mawkishness
- excessive sentiment
- sentimentalism
To squish so as to break into smaller pieces or to combine with something else.
Origin of Mush
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Probably a variant of mash, or from a dialectal variant of Middle English mos ("mush, pulp, porridge"; compare Middle English appelmos (“applesauce")), from Old English mōs (“food, victuals, porridge, mush"), from Proto-Germanic *mōsÄ… (“porridge, food"), from Proto-Indo-European *mehâ‚‚d- (“wet, fat, dripping"). Cognate with Scots moosh (“mush"), Dutch moes (“pulp, mush, porridge"), German Mus (“jam, puree, mush"), Swedish mos (“pulp, mash, mush"). See also moose.
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Possibly alteration of French marchons first person pl. imperative of marcher to walk, go from Old French march1
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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Believed to be a contraction of mush on, in turn a corruption of French marchons!, the cry of the voyageurs and coureurs de bois to their dogs.
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From Angloromani mush (“man"), from Romani murÅ¡, from Sanskrit [Devanagari?] [script?] (manuSya, “human being, man").
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From Old High German muos and Goidelic mus (“a pap") or muss (“a porridge"), or any thick preparation of fruit.
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Compare French moucheter (“to cut with small cuts").
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From Armenian Մուշ (Muš).
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Simple contraction of mushroom.
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Probably alteration of mash
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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