mush

noun

1. (countable, uncountable)A somewhat liquid mess, often of food; a soft or semisolid substance.

   “His food is of the coarsest kind, consisting for the most part of cornmeal mush, which often finds its way from the wooden tray to his mouth in an oyster shell.”

2. (countable, uncountable)A mixture of noise produced by the harmonics of continuous-wave stations.
3. (countable, uncountable)The foam of a breaker.

   “And Rincon was all about surfing. Flash back thirty-odd years, to a skinny kid on a Styrofoam belly-board, pin-wheeling out into the mush of Jacksonville Beach, Florida.”

4. (countable, uncountable)A magmatic body containing a significant proportion of crystals suspended in the liquid phase or melt.
5. (Multicultural-London-English, countable, uncountable)A gun.

   “Do you want me to back out the mush, bruv?”

6. (countable, uncountable)A food comprising cracked or rolled grains cooked in water or milk; porridge.
7. (countable, uncountable)Cornmeal cooked in water and served as a porridge or as a thick sidedish like grits or mashed potatoes.

   “However, they did make and sometimes even bake cornmeal mushes that could be either sweetened or fortified with fat.”

8. A walk, especially across the snow with dogs.

   “The White House posted a cartoon to X on Wednesday of two Greenlandic mush teams with three huskies each, pointing towards the choice of the white pillars and the South Lawn or a tempestuous scene by the Great Wall of China and Red Square in Russia.”

9. (Quebec, slang)A magic mushroom.
10. (British, Southern-England, slang)(US, slang, chiefly Nonantum) A form of address, normally to a man.

    “Oy mush, come over here and gimme a hand with the motor.”

    “"Hey, Mush!" Tony Pellegrino called to Michael standing on the other side of the street.”

11. (Australia, British, Northern-England, slang)The face.
12. (London, slang)A cab driver who is the owner of their cab, and sometimes a small number of other cabs as well; a musher.
13. A form of multi-user dungeon, often used for online social intercourse and role-playing games.

verb

1. To squish so as to break into smaller pieces or to combine with something else.

   “He mushed the ingredients together.”

   “One must compartmentalize one's life and not let different facets/experiences mush over into one another.”

2. (intransitive)To walk, especially across the snow with dogs.
3. (transitive)To drive dogs, usually pulling a sled, across the snow.

   “Together the two men loaded and lashed the sled. They warmed their hands for the last time, pulled on their mittens, and mushed the dogs over the bank and down to the river-trail.”

4. (transitive)To notch, cut, or indent (cloth, etc.) with a stamp.

intj

1. A directive given (usually to dogs or a horse) to start moving, or to move faster.

   “"An' of course the dogs can hike along all day with that contraption behind them," affirmed a second of the men. / "Certainly," said Hal, with freezing politeness, taking hold of the gee-pole with one hand and swinging his whip from the other. "Mush!" he shouted. "Mush on there!" / The dogs sprang against the breast-bands, strained hard for a few moments, then relaxed. They were unable to move the sled.”

name

1. A historically Armenian city in the Turuberan province of Greater Armenia, now in eastern Turkey.
2. A province of Turkey.