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moosh

moosh is the alternative spelling of mush.

moosh is the alternative form of mush.

Meaning of mush

Verb (1)

mush (third-person singular simple present mushes, present participle mushing, simple past and past participle mushed)

  1. To squish so as to break into smaller pieces or to combine with something else.
    • He mushed the ingredients together.

Verb (2)

mush (third-person singular simple present mushes, present participle mushing, simple past and past participle mushed)

  1. (intransitive) To walk, especially across the snow with dogs.
    • [skiing] It's as beautiful as you always described it, Sam. / I think we'd make better time on the dog sled. You in the mood to mush?2019, Bob Smiley, “Cocaine Pills and Pony Meat” (17:50 from the start), in Victor Nelli Jr., director, Atypical, season 3, episode 3, spoken by Julia and Sam (Amy Okuda and Keir Gilchrist), via...
  2. (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.1910, Jack London, Burning Daylight, part 1 chapter 4

Verb (3)

mush (third-person singular simple present mushes, present participle mushing, simple past and past participle mushed)

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

See all 20 meanings of mush

Noun

moosh (plural mooshes)

  1. Alternative spelling of mush (“a form of address to a man”).

Forms of moosh

Verb
third-person singular presentmooshes
present participlemooshing
past participlemooshed
pastmooshed
Noun
pluralmooshes

Questions about moosh

What does moosh mean?
Moosh means alternative spelling of mush (“a form of address to a man”).
What is moosh the alternative spelling of?
Moosh is the alternative spelling of mush.
What part of speech is moosh?
Moosh is a noun.
What is the plural of moosh?
The plural of moosh is mooshes.

Words near moosh in the dictionary

  1. moosewort
  2. moosey
  3. mooseyard
  4. mooseyards
  5. mooseyness
  6. moosh
  7. mooshed
  8. mooshes
  9. mooshing
  10. mooshy
  11. Mooslim

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Adapted from Wiktionary: moosh (page history and authors); mush (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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