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MushEnglish (en) · Unnumbered etymologySource text
Borrowed from Armenian Մուշ (Muš).
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗MUSHEnglish (en) · Unnumbered etymologySource text
Modelled on earlier MUD; usually explained as "multi-user shared hallucination" (or "hack", "habitat", etc.).
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗mushEnglish (en) · Etymology 1Source text
Probably a variant of mash, or from a dialectal variant of Middle English mos (“mush, pulp, porridge”); compare Middle English appelmos (“applesauce”), from Old English mōs (“food, victuals, porridge, mush”), from Proto-West Germanic *mōs, from Proto-Germanic *mōsą (“porridge, food”), from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂d- (“wet, fat, dripping”). Cognate with Scots moosh (“mush”), Dutch moes (“pulp, mush, porridge”), German Mus (“jam, puree, mush”), Swedish mos (“pulp, mash, mush”).
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗mushEnglish (en) · Etymology 2Source text
From Old High German muos and Goidelic mus (“a pap”) or muss (“a porridge”), or any thick preparation of fruit.
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗mushEnglish (en) · Etymology 3Source text
Believed to be a contraction of mush on, from Michif, in turn a corruption of French marche (“march”) or marchons!, the cry of voyageurs and coureurs de bois to their dogs. Marche and marchons are respectively the second-person singular and first-person plural imperative forms of marcher (“to move; to travel; to walk”), from Middle French marcher, from Old French marchier, from Frankish *markōn, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *markōną (“to mark; to notice”).
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗mushEnglish (en) · Etymology 4Source text
Simple contraction of mushroom.
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗mushEnglish (en) · Etymology 5Source text
From Angloromani mush (“man”), from Romani mursh, from Sanskrit मनुष्य (manuṣya, “human being, man”).
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗mushEnglish (en) · Etymology 6Source text
Possibly from mush (“to drive dogs, usually pulling a sled, across snow”, verb), or mush (“(slang, rare) umbrella”, noun) (a clipping of mushroom, from the similar appearance; referring to drivers shielding passengers with umbrellas in rainy weather).
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗mushEnglish (en) · Etymology 7Source text
Compare French moucheter (“to cut with small cuts”).
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Chambers (1908)
1908- MushEnglish · e-38538-9668
Mush, mush, n. meal boiled in water, esp. Indian meal: anything pulpy.—adj. Mush′y, soft, pulpy. [Prob. mash.]
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Mush, mush, v.t. to notch, a dress-fabric ornamentally at the side with a stamp. [Prob. a form of mesh.]
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