mush

Boiled cereal paste

Mush is soft, thick, shapeless matter—food boiled to a pulp, snow turning to slush, anything reduced to a wet mass: The vegetables had cooked down to mush.

Figuratively, mush is excessive sentimentality: The movie's ending was pure mush.

As a command to sled dogs, mush means go or move faster.

To mush is to travel by dogsled: We mushed across the frozen lake.

puree

blender

Motorized food puréeing appliance

  • mashCrushed soft mixture
  • pasteThick sticky substance
  • pulpSoft wet mass

baby food · smoothie · applesauce · consistency · liquidize · pulverize · homogenize · food processor · pureed · strained

porridge

oatmeal

Boiled grain breakfast

polenta · grits · kasha · congee · hasty pudding · hominy · farina · semolina · buckwheat · breakfast

dogsled

huskies

Cold-climate sled breed

sled dogs · harness · tundra · arctic · snow · trail · gee · haw · lead dog · team

sentimentality

sappy

Excessively sentimental

corny · soppy · gushy · treacly · mawkish · syrupy · lovey-dovey · sentimental · romantic · affectionate

texture

soft

Yielding to touch

gooey · sludgy · pasty · gloppy · lumpy · thick · viscous · gelatinous · soggy · waterlogged

nonsense

drivel

Senseless, silly talk

baloney · bunk · tripe · gibberish · pablum · twaddle · claptrap · fluff · meaningless · insubstantial

command

go

Move from here

move · start · urging · shouting · driving · verbal cue

Categories
Opposites
texture/consistency

mushcrunchy

Breaking with sound

firm · crisp · solid · hard · crunchy texture

emotional sentiment

mushcynicism

Distrust of human sincerity

hard-heartedness · coldness · hardheadedness · tough-mindedness · unsentimental

clarity/coherence

mushclarity

State of being understandable

precision · coherence · sharpness · rigor · incisiveness

Phrases
Family

mushy, mushed, mushes, mushing, musher, mushiness, mushier, mushers

Familiarity
Top 50,000
Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G