mush

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Related topics: Food, Food, dish

mush1 /mʌʃ/ noun

1 [singular, uncountableU]DFSUBSTANCE an unpleasant soft substance, especially food, which is partly liquid and partly solid 糊状物，烂糊状的东西〔尤指食物〕

The boiled vegetables had turned to mush.

煮过的蔬菜变成了一堆烂糊糊。

She trudged through the mush of fallen leaves.

她步履沉重地走过烂泥般的落叶。

2 turn/go to mush if your brains, heart etc turn to mush, you cannot think clearly or sensibly 〔头脑〕变得不清晰/糊涂

If you watch too much TV, your brains will turn to mush.

如果你看太多电视，脑子就会变糊涂。

Examples from the Corpus

turn/go to mush• All this quickness of mind, all her decisiveness had turned to mush when Mac came on the scene.

3. [uncountableU] American EnglishAmEDFF a thick porridge made from cornmeal 稠玉米粥

4 [uncountableU]LOVE a book, film etc that is about love and is sentimental 〔书、电影等的〕言情作品感伤型作品

poetry and mush like that

诗歌以及与之类似的感伤文字

Examples from the Corpus

mush• This is a love story, with a lot more going for it than slush and mush.• I watched the others to see how to scoop up the gluey mush with my hand.• As I said earlier, at first sight it looks like a grey mush.• Cook the squash until it's soft, but not mush.• Two children followed with a pot of mush cooling and thinning in the rain.• Buffalo men, they called them, and talked slowly to the prisoners scooping mush and tapping away at their chains.• But boiling the grain was a laborious process and produced an unpalatable mush.• Helen, feeding the old woman mush on a spoon.

turned to mush• All this quickness of mind, all her decisiveness had turned to mush when Mac came on the scene.• The parking lot had turned to mush in the rain.

mush2 /mʊʃ/ noun British EnglishBrE

1 INSULT spoken informal used to speak to someone in an angry way 讨厌鬼；脏鬼〔对某人愤怒的称呼〕

Oi, mush! Get your hands off my car!

喂，脏鬼！把你的手从我车上拿开！

2 [countableC] British EnglishBrE informal someone’s face or mouth 脸；嘴

I didn’t want to see his ugly mush ever again.

我不想再看到他那张丑陋的脸。

Examples from the Corpus

mush• This is a love story, with a lot more going for it than slush and mush.• As I said earlier, at first sight it looks like a grey mush.• Helen, feeding the old woman mush on a spoon.

mush3 /mʌʃ/ interjection

used to tell a team of dogs that pull a sledge over snow to start moving 走！〔赶拉雪橇的狗前进的吆喝声〕

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