mush

1. 1.

   drive (a team of dogs or a dogsled)

   Broaderdrive
2. 2.

   travel with a dogsled

   Synonymsdogsled

   Broadersled

Other forms of mush

plural

mushes·

past tense

mushed·

present participle

mushing·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about mush

What does mush mean?

mush means "any soft or soggy mass". That is the primary sense; the word has 6 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in mush?

mush has 1 syllable: mush. In IPA it is /ˈmʌʃ/.

What is another word for mush?

Close synonyms include pulp, cornmeal mush, treacle, slop, glop. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is mush a common word?

mush is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.