mushes

Noun (1)

mush (countable and uncountable, plural mushes)

1. A somewhat liquid mess, often of food; a soft or semisolid substance.
   • 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.1855, Frederick Douglass, chapter 1, in My Bondage and My Freedom. […], New York; Auburn, N.Y.: Miller, Orton & Mulligan […], →OCLC
2. A mixture of noise produced by the harmonics of continuous-wave stations.
3. The foam of a breaker.
   • 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.2008, Bucky McMahon, Night Diver, page 80
4. A magmatic body containing a significant proportion of crystals suspended in the liquid phase or melt.
5. (Multicultural-London-English) A gun.
   • Do you want me to back out the mush, bruv?

Noun (2)

mush (countable and uncountable, plural mushes)

1. A food comprising cracked or rolled grains cooked in water or milk; porridge.

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