The difference between Gob and Mush
When used as nouns, gob means a lump of soft or sticky material, whereas mush means a somewhat liquid mess, often of food.
When used as verbs, gob means to gather into a lump, whereas mush means to squish so as to break into smaller pieces or to combine with something else.
check bellow for the other definitions of Gob and Mush
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Gob as a noun (countable):
A lump of soft or sticky material.
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Gob as a noun (countable, British, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, slang):
The mouth.
Examples:
"He′s always stuffing his gob with fast food."
"Oi, you, shut your gob!"
"She's got such a gob on her – she′s always gossiping about someone or other."
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Gob as a noun (uncountable, slang):
Saliva or phlegm.
Examples:
"He spat a big ball of gob on to the pavement."
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Gob as a noun (US, military, slang):
A sailor.
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Gob as a noun (uncountable, mining):
Waste material in old mine workings, goaf.
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Gob as a noun (US, regional):
A whoopee pie.
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Gob as a verb:
To gather into a lump.
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Gob as a verb:
To spit, especially to spit phlegm.
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Gob as a verb (mining, intransitive):
To pack away waste material in order to support the walls of the mine.
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Mush as a noun:
A somewhat liquid mess, often of food; a soft or semisolid substance.
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Mush as a noun (radio):
A mixture of noise produced by the harmonics of continuous-wave stations.
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Mush as a verb:
To squish so as to break into smaller pieces or to combine with something else.
Examples:
"He mushed the ingredients together."
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Mush as a noun:
A food comprising cracked or rolled grains cooked in water or milk; porridge.
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Mush as a noun:
Cornmeal cooked in water and served as a porridge or as a thick sidedish like grits or mashed potatoes.
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Mush as a noun:
A walk, especially across the snow with dogs.
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Mush as a verb (intransitive):
To walk, especially across the snow with dogs.
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Mush as a verb (transitive):
To drive dogs, usually pulling a sled, across the snow.
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Mush as a noun (Quebec, slang):
magic mushrooms
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Mush as a noun (British slang, primarily, Southern England):
A form of address to a man.
Examples:
"* "'Oy, mush! Get out of it!'<br>That's what we'd say<br>Barging the locals<br>Out of the way"<br>— ''MAUREEN AND DOREEN AND NOREEN AND ME'', ''Peculiar Poems'', [http://www.jclamb.com/]"
"* "When I'm around it's not uncommon for someone to call me and say :'Oy mush, get your bum over here and give us a hand.'" — ''THE ONCE AND FUTURE KING: In Which King Arthur Uther Pendragon Grants An Interview'' [http://arthurpendragon.ukonline.co.uk/arthur.html]"
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Mush as a noun (British slang, primarily, Northern England, Australian):
The face
Examples:
"* "My ugly mush finally found its way onto the www, but not in the manner to which I deserved." — [http://owlfarm.pmgr.net/aspen/hst16.htm]"
"* 2002:"I grew my face fungus to cover up an ugly mush." — [http://www.maggotdrowning.com/forum/topic.asp?ARCHIVE=true&TOPIC_ID=809]"
"* "and your bird has an ugly mush" — [http://b3ta.com/board/archive/21323/]"
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Mush as a verb (transitive):
To notch, cut, or indent (cloth, etc.) with a stamp.