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MushEnglish (en) · Unnumbered etymologySource text

Borrowed from Armenian Մուշ (Muš).

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MUSHEnglish (en) · Unnumbered etymologySource text

Modelled on earlier MUD; usually explained as "multi-user shared hallucination" (or "hack", "habitat", etc.).

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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”).

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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.

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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”).

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mushEnglish (en) · Etymology 4Source text

Simple contraction of mushroom.

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mushEnglish (en) · Etymology 5Source text

From Angloromani mush (“man”), from Romani mursh, from Sanskrit मनुष्य (manuṣya, “human being, man”).

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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).

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mushEnglish (en) · Etymology 7Source text

Compare French moucheter (“to cut with small cuts”).

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