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Meaning of Mush | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C2 Standard
mʌʃ

Definitions

  1. A somewhat liquid mess, often of food; a soft or semisolid substance.
  2. A form of multi-user dungeon, often used for online social intercourse and role-playing games.
  3. A food comprising cracked or rolled grains cooked in water or milk; porridge.
  4. A historically Armenian city in the Turuberan province of Greater Armenia, now in eastern Turkey.
  5. A walk, especially across the snow with dogs.
  6. A magic mushroom.
  7. (US, slang, chiefly Nonantum) A form of address, normally to a man.
    British, Southern-England, slang
  8. A cab driver who is the owner of their cab, and sometimes a small number of other cabs as well; a musher.
  9. A mixture of noise produced by the harmonics of continuous-wave stations.
  10. A province of Turkey.
  11. Cornmeal cooked in water and served as a porridge or as a thick sidedish like grits or mashed potatoes.
  12. The face.
    Australia, British, Northern-England, slang
  13. The foam of a breaker.
  14. A magmatic body containing a significant proportion of crystals suspended in the liquid phase or melt.
  15. A gun.
    Multicultural-London-English, countable, uncountable

Equivalents

العربية الهريسة موش
Български каша
Bosanski kasa kaše каша
Čeština čéče kámo kaše
Cymraeg iytan stwnsh
Deutsch Brei Koch Maisbrei Matsch Mus Pampe Polenta
Ελληνικά παπάρα
فارسی موش
Français dia Hue
हिन्दी हप्पा
Hrvatski kasa kaše каша
Magyar kása pép
Kurdî dia kase Mûş pep
Nederlands pap tronie
Polski kaszka kleik papka
Српски kasa kaše каша
Türkçe mus

Examples

“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.”
“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.”
“Do you want me to back out the mush, bruv?”
“However, they did make and sometimes even bake cornmeal mushes that could be either sweetened or fortified with fat.”
“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.”
“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.”

CEFR level

C2
Mastery
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