The difference between Mash and Mush
When used as nouns, mash means a mass of mixed ingredients reduced to a soft pulpy state by beating or pressure, whereas mush means a somewhat liquid mess, often of food.
When used as verbs, mash means to convert into a mash, 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 Mash and Mush
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Mash as a noun (uncountable):
A mass of mixed ingredients reduced to a soft pulpy state by beating or pressure; a mass of anything in a soft pulpy state.
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Mash as a noun (brewing):
Ground or bruised malt, or meal of rye, wheat, corn, or other grain (or a mixture of malt and meal) steeped and stirred in hot water for making the wort.
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Mash as a noun:
Mashed potatoes.
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Mash as a noun:
A mixture of meal or bran and water fed to animals.
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Mash as a noun (obsolete):
A mess; trouble.
Examples:
"rfquotek Beaumont and Fletcher"
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Mash as a verb (transitive):
To convert into a mash; to reduce to a soft pulpy state by beating or pressure
Examples:
"We had fun mashing apples in a mill."
"The potatoes need to be mashed."
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Mash as a verb (transitive):
In brewing, to convert (for example malt, or malt and meal) into the mash which makes wort.
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Mash as a verb (ambitransitive):
To press down hard (on).
Examples:
"to mash on a bicycle pedal"
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Mash as a verb (transitive, southern US, informal):
To press.
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Mash as a verb (transitive, UK, mostly, Northern England):
To prepare a cup of tea in a teapot; to brew (tea).
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Mash as a verb (intransitive, archaic):
To act violently.
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Mash as a noun (obsolete):
A mesh.
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Mash as a verb:
to flirt, to make eyes, to make romantic advances
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Mash as a noun (obsolete):
an infatuation, a crush, a fancy
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Mash as a noun (obsolete):
a dandy, a masher
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Mash as a noun (obsolete):
the object of one's affections
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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.