Other forms: mushes
Mush is a soft wet mass, especially of food. Cooked to mush, a mush of vegetables, gone to mush.
It is always a complaint about texture, since mush is what happens when something was cooked too long. In America it also names a cornmeal porridge, and as a call to a dog team it is a different word entirely.
1nounmushA soft wet mass, especially of food.
“The baby happily ate a bowl of banana mush.”
mush is a mass.
Probably a variant of mash, or from a Middle English word for pulp or porridge.
Middle English
mos — mush, pulp, porridge
English, today
mush
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”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA