porridge, gruel; sentimentality; snow travel in a dog sled
(Colloquial) journey across the snow (esp. with dogs); command a team of dogs to set out or move faster (in Northwestern USA and Alaska); mash, make into mush
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Mush Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries
(v. t.)
To notch, cut, or indent, as cloth, with a stamp.
To notch, cut, or indent, as cloth, with a stamp.
(n.)
Meal (esp. Indian meal) boiled in water; hasty pudding; supawn.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter. AboutMeal (esp. Indian meal) boiled in water; hasty pudding; supawn.
mush
\mush\ (?), n. [cf. gael. mus, muss, pap, porridge, any thick preparation of fruit, ohg. muos; akin to as. & os. mōs food, and prob, to e. meat. see meat.] meal (esp. indian meal) boiled in water; hasty pudding; supawn. [u.s.]
mush
\mush\, v. t. [cf. f. moucheter to cut with small cuts.] to notch, cut, or indent, as cloth, with a stamp.
mush
\mush\, v. t. to notch, cut, or indent, as cloth, with a stamp.
mush
\mush\ (?), n. [perh. short for mush on, a corrupt of e. marchons, the cry of the voyageurs and coureurs de bois to their dogs.] a march on foot, esp. across the snow with dogs; as, he had a long mush before him; -- also used attributively. [colloq., alaska & northwestern u. s.]
mush
\mush\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. mushed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. mushing.] to travel on foot, esp. across the snow with dogs. -- v. t. to cause to travel or journey. [rare] [colloq., alaska & northwestern u. s.]
prison food, especially porridge
Noun
1. any soft or soggy mass; "he pounded it to a pulp"
(synonym) pulp
(hypernym) mass
2. cornmeal boiled in water
(synonym) cornmeal mush
(hypernym) hot cereal
(hyponym) atole
(substance-meronym) cornmeal, Indian meal
3. an expression that is excessively sweet and sentimental
(synonym) treacle
(hypernym) sentimentalism
4. a journey by dogsled
(hypernym) journey, journeying
Verb
1. drive (a team of dogs or a dogsled)
(hypernym) drive
(derivation) musher
2. travel with a dogsled
(hypernym) sled, sleigh
(derivation) musher
Mush Definition from Computer & Internet Dictionaries & Glossaries
Multi-User Dimensions or Multiple User Dungeon, or Multiple User Dialogue. These are extensions of Dungeons and Dragons that seduced "adolescents" into a network world of imaginary places. Now there are serious social and education MUDs. Some of the many types are reviewed in Basic Information About MUDs and MUDding . There are extensions such as Multi-user, Object-Oriented MOO applications that, along with MUDs, have become serious educational experiments and applications. For example, Conlon (1997) reports on the MOOville writing workshop for over 2500 students per semester at the University of Florida. Click here for a summary of it in Jensen and Sandlin (1997). Another less extreme extension is the MUSH which, like a MUD, is an electronic space in which multiple persons (players, users, students) socialize, create "worlds," and interact in gaming or serious episodes. For a discussion of the history and applications of MUSHes, see The Mush Manual by Lydia Leong. Also see MUDs, MOOs, and Muses . The variations differ more in terms of underlying codes than in purpose and application.
For an early overview of MUDs see Germain (1993) . The addictive powers of MUDS and the fantasy world of LambdaMOO are discussed by Hafner (1994) . MUDs and extensions such as MOOs and MUSHes are no longer viewed as merely interactive games. They have become serious paradigms for education and training. For a summary of MOOville and its outcomes see Chapter 2 of Jensen and Sandlin (1997) . MUDs are particulary intriguing as education paradigms for reaching students who perform poorly in traditinal classroom settings. (See also Games )
For an early overview of MUDs see Germain (1993) . The addictive powers of MUDS and the fantasy world of LambdaMOO are discussed by Hafner (1994) . MUDs and extensions such as MOOs and MUSHes are no longer viewed as merely interactive games. They have become serious paradigms for education and training. For a summary of MOOville and its outcomes see Chapter 2 of Jensen and Sandlin (1997) . MUDs are particulary intriguing as education paradigms for reaching students who perform poorly in traditinal classroom settings. (See also Games )
Short for Multi-User Shared Hallucination, a text-based MUD system. There are many MUSH worlds that have been evolving for years.
Mush Definition from Encyclopedia Dictionaries & Glossaries
In multiplayer online games, a MUSH (a backronymed pun on MUD most often expanded as Multi-User Shared Hallucination, though Multi-User Shared Hack, Habitat, and Holodeck are also observed) is a text-based online social medium to which multiple users are connected at the same time. MUSHes are often used for online social intercourse and role-playing games, although the first forms of MUSH do not appear to be coded specifically to implement gaming activity. MUSH software was originally derived from MUDs; today's two major MUSH variants are descended from TinyMUD, which was fundamentally a social game. MUSH has forked over the years and there are now different varieties with different features, although most have strong similarities and one who is fluent in coding one variety can switch to coding for the other with only a little effort. The source code for most widely used MUSH servers is open source and available from its current maintainers.
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Mush may refer to:
- mush (cornmeal) ( or ), a kind of corn pudding or porridge
- mushing , a sport or transport method powered by dogs or a command to a dog team
- Mus Province , in eastern Turkey
- Mus , the capital of Mus Province
- MUSH, a type of text-based online social medium (often called a "Multi-User Shared Hallucination")
- MUSHing, using or playing on a MUSH
- Pervez Musharraf (sometimes referred to as "Mush", ), former president of Pakistan
- kneading (cats) (also called "mushing", ), a behavior of domestic cats when they are content or are preparing to settle for a nap
- Mush (album) , a 1991 album by the band Leatherface
- Mush Records, a Los Angeles-based independent record label
- MUSH sector or MUSH market, an abbreviation of the public sector segment or niche market of municipalities, universities, schools and hospitals
- mush , Angloromani slang meaning "face", "man", or "friend"
- mushing, bringing bad luck upon someone else, as in poker
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Mush Definition from Sports Dictionaries & Glossaries
Small, closely spaced breaking waves with a lot of white water.Typically associated with strong onshore winds, and difficult to sail through.
