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 糊狀物，爛糊狀的東西〔尤指食物〕

The boiled vegetables had turned to mush.

煮過的蔬菜變成了一堆爛糊糊。

She trudged through the mush of fallen leaves.

她步履沉重地走過爛泥般的落葉。

2 turn/go to mush if your brains, heart etc turn to mush, you cannot think clearly or sensibly 〔頭腦〕變得不清晰/糊塗

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

如果你看太多電視，腦子就會變糊塗。

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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 〔書、電影等的〕言情作品感傷型作品

poetry and mush like that

詩歌以及與之類似的感傷文字

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 討厭鬼；髒鬼〔對某人憤怒的稱呼〕

Oi, mush! Get your hands off my car!

喂，髒鬼！把你的手從我車上拿開！

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

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

我不想再看到他那張醜陋的臉。

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！〔趕拉雪橇的狗前進的吆喝聲〕

mush1 nounmush2 nounmush3 interjection

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