Mush - English meaning

noun

A food made from the pressed curds of milk, firm and elastic or soft and semi-liquid in texture.

Usage examples:

Grated cheese

verb

Exasperate, frustrate, or bore (someone).

Usage examples:

I got a bit cheesed off with the movie

noun

A type of solid food made from milk, used with many other foods and eaten plain, esp. with crackers

Usage examples:

American/swiss cheese, [ u ] i’d like a pizza with extra cheese, please.

noun

The chief cereal crop of a district, especially (in england) wheat or (in scotland) oats.

Usage examples:

Fields of corn

noun

A small, painful area of thickened skin on the foot, especially on the toes, caused by pressure.

Usage examples:

An ingrown nail on one foot and a corn on the other were now troubling me

noun

A tall plant grown for its whole yellow or white seeds which are eaten cooked, made into flour, or fed to animals

Usage examples:

Let’s pick up a half dozen ears of corn for supper.

noun

Any thick liquid or sticky substance

noun

Sticky and amorphous matter, typically something unpleasant.

Usage examples:

A cup of vile green glop

verb

Transfer (a sloppy or sticky substance) to a container.

Usage examples:

Glop 2 gallons of premixed compound into a bucket

noun

A sticky, thick substance, such as food, that appears unpleasant

Usage examples:

I can’t believe they served us this glop.

noun

A sticky or slimy substance.

Usage examples:

He tipped the grayish goo from the test tube

noun

A thick, sticky substance

Usage examples:

Mudslides left goo all over the highway.

noun

An unpleasantly sticky substance

noun

Nonsense.

Usage examples:

They dismissed such corporate homilies as boardroom hokum

noun

Nonsense

Usage examples:

This report on the causes of crime is pure hokum.

noun

A film, play, or television programme that does not show life as it really is

Usage examples:

As a whole the series was never less than watchable - hokum, perhaps, but entertaining.

verb

Reduce (food or other substance) to a soft mass by crushing it.

Usage examples:

Mash the beans to a paste

noun

A soft mass made by crushing a substance into a pulp, sometimes with the addition of liquid.

Usage examples:

Pound the garlic to a mash

noun

Compress with violence, out of natural shape or condition

noun

The quality of showing emotion or love in an awkward or silly way

Usage examples:

For me, the most important quality of the novel is that it escapes mawkishness, sentimentality, and…

noun

Bland soft or semi-liquid food such as that suitable for babies or invalids.

Usage examples:

A trayful of tasteless pap

adjective

(of food) lacking flavour and firmness.

Usage examples:

The apple is so pap i won't eat it

noun

A woman's breast or nipple.

Usage examples:

And how else did you think i came to you with my paps full of milk, when you were first a babe?

noun

A thick, soft, moist substance typically produced by mixing dry ingredients with a liquid.

Usage examples:

Blend onions, sugar, and oil to a paste

verb

Coat with paste.

Usage examples:

When coating walls with fabric, paste the wall, not the fabric

noun

A thick, wet substance used for sticking things together, or any soft, wet mixture of powder and liquid

Usage examples:

Use paste, glue, or tape to attach the pictures., tomato paste, she pasted a heart onto the valenti…

noun

(especially in cider-making) the pulpy residue remaining after fruit has been crushed in order to extract its juice.

Usage examples:

Control is difficult, and includes destruction of breeding places, such as piles of rejected fruit …

noun

A soft, wet, shapeless mass of material.

Usage examples:

Boiling with soda will reduce your peas to pulp

verb

Crush into a soft, wet, shapeless mass.

Usage examples:

Bales of waste paper were chopped, shredded, and pulped

noun

A soft, wet mass, often produced by crushing something

Usage examples:

Mash the bananas to a pulp and then mix in the yogurt., wood pulp

noun

A smooth cream of liquidized or crushed fruit or vegetables.

Usage examples:

Tomato puree

verb

Make a puree of (fruit or vegetables).

Usage examples:

Puree the potatoes through the sieve

verb

To crush food into a thick, soft sauce

Usage examples:

Puree the bananas thoroughly in a blender., [ u ] add two tablespoons of tomato puree.

noun

Excessive sentimentality, especially in music or films.

Usage examples:

At the end of the film the audience are drowned in a sea of schmaltz

noun

Artistic works, such as music or writing, that are intended to cause strong sad or romantic feelings but have no real artistic value

Usage examples:

Her second album was pure schmaltz.

noun

Exaggerated and self-indulgent tenderness, sadness, or nostalgia.

Usage examples:

There are passages which verge on sentimentality

noun

Expression of gentle emotions such as love, sympathy, or caring

Usage examples:

She had never liked that song’s sentimentality.

verb

(of a liquid) spill or flow over the edge of a container, typically as a result of careless handling.

Usage examples:

Water slopped over the edge of the sink

noun

Waste water from a kitchen, bathroom, or chamber pot that has to be emptied by hand.

Usage examples:

Sink slops

noun

A workman's loose outer garment.

noun

Partially melted snow or ice.

Usage examples:

The snow was turning into brown slush in the gutters

verb

Make a squelching or splashing sound.

Usage examples:

There was water slushing around in the galley

noun

Snow or ice that has started to melt

Usage examples:

The city’s streets were covered with dirty, gray slush., slushy snow can be very slippery.

verb

Wash or rinse out (an area or container) by pouring large amounts of water or other liquid over or into it.

Usage examples:

I swilled out the mug

noun

Kitchen refuse and scraps of waste food mixed with water for feeding to pigs.

Usage examples:

Government yesterday also placed an immediate ban on swill (kitchen refuse) bought from ships after…

verb

To drink something, usually alcohol, in large amounts