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DictionarymushSoft mass
noun

mush

MUSH/mʌʃ/

A soft, thick mass, especially of cooked grain.

The soaked oats slump from the spoon as soft mush.

A spoon lifts a soft wet pulpy mass of soaked oats from a tipped plain bowl; slumping clumps and a little liquid show mush, no intact hard pieces.
Etymology
mushEnglishsoft mixture

Mush is a variant of mash, “soft mixture.” It first named porridge made by boiling meal in water or milk, then broadened to other soft, thick masses.

In context

Sea Japan1:03
turn the wood to mush the damage was bad enough that we really need to pull the mass out and rebuild
Rotten wooden mast needs rebuilding [Ep25]

More examples

  • The cereal turned to mush.
  • He ate a bowl of cornmeal mush.
  • Rain reduced the paper to mush.

Forms

mush

Similar words

porridge
Porridge specifically names a cooked grain dish.
pulp
Pulp can be crushed fruit or other fibrous material.