| 单词 | mush |
| 释义 | mush (once / 2759 pages) 1n 2nv Mush is a soft, squishy clump of something. That bowlful of mush your grandfather gave you for breakfast might be oatmeal. Mush is a soggy mass, and cornmeal mush is a kind of porridge that fits this description. Mush is also something so overly sentimental that it's almost disgusting: "Oh, that movie was terrible, just a bunch of romantic mush!" When you use mush as a verb or an exclamation, it's usually in the context of dogsledding, meaning "Go!" or "Move forward!" This last meaning comes from the French marche, "walk" or "go." WORD FAMILYmush: mushed, musher, mushes, mushing, mushy+/musher: mushers/mushy: mushier, mushiest, mushily, mushiness USAGE EXAMPLESPerhaps Comey was again trying to keep his agency and himself above the fray, but the FBI’s mush helped Trump dismiss the CIA’s findings. Washington Post(Dec 21, 2016) I decided to try mushing eight years ago and I am the first deaf musher. BBC(Nov 30, 2016) "Buy the bag with the best sell-by date, avoid lots of mushed leaves and if it's inflated then don't use it." BBC(Nov 18, 2016) 1 1n any soft or soggy mass Syn|Hyper pulp mass a body of matter without definite shape 2n cornmeal boiled in water Syn|Hypo|Hyper cornmeal mush atole eaten as mush or as a thin gruel hasty puddingcornmeal mush served with sweetening (maple syrup or brown sugar) polentaa thick mush made of cornmeal boiled in stock or water hot cereal a cereal that is served hot 3n writing or music that is excessively sweet and sentimental 2Syn|Hyper glop, slop, treacle sentimentalism the excessive expression of tender feelings, nostalgia, or sadness in any form 1n a journey by dogsled Hyper journey, journeying the act of traveling from one place to another 2v travel with a dogsled Syn|Hyper dogsled sled, sleigh ride (on) a sled 3v drive (a team of dogs or a dogsled) Syn|Hyper dogsled travel with a dogsled drive urge forward |
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