mushing

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.

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