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

  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. Mash as a noun:

    Mashed potatoes.

  4. Mash as a noun:

    A mixture of meal or bran and water fed to animals.

  5. Mash as a noun (obsolete):

    A mess; trouble.

    Examples:

    "rfquotek Beaumont and Fletcher"

  1. 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."

  2. Mash as a verb (transitive):

    In brewing, to convert (for example malt, or malt and meal) into the mash which makes wort.

  3. Mash as a verb (ambitransitive):

    To press down hard (on).

    Examples:

    "to mash on a bicycle pedal"

  4. Mash as a verb (transitive, southern US, informal):

    To press.

  5. Mash as a verb (transitive, UK, mostly, Northern England):

    To prepare a cup of tea in a teapot; to brew (tea).

  6. Mash as a verb (intransitive, archaic):

    To act violently.

  1. Mash as a noun (obsolete):

    A mesh.

  1. Mash as a verb:

    to flirt, to make eyes, to make romantic advances

  1. Mash as a noun (obsolete):

    an infatuation, a crush, a fancy

  2. Mash as a noun (obsolete):

    a dandy, a masher

  3. Mash as a noun (obsolete):

    the object of one's affections

  1. Mush as a noun:

    A somewhat liquid mess, often of food; a soft or semisolid substance.

  2. Mush as a noun (radio):

    A mixture of noise produced by the harmonics of continuous-wave stations.

  1. 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."

  1. Mush as a noun:

    A food comprising cracked or rolled grains cooked in water or milk; porridge.

  2. Mush as a noun:

    Cornmeal cooked in water and served as a porridge or as a thick sidedish like grits or mashed potatoes.

  1. Mush as a noun:

    A walk, especially across the snow with dogs.

  1. Mush as a verb (intransitive):

    To walk, especially across the snow with dogs.

  2. Mush as a verb (transitive):

    To drive dogs, usually pulling a sled, across the snow.

  1. Mush as a noun (Quebec, slang):

    magic mushrooms

  1. 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>&mdash; ''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.'" &mdash; ''THE ONCE AND FUTURE KING: In Which King Arthur Uther Pendragon Grants An Interview'' [http://arthurpendragon.ukonline.co.uk/arthur.html]"

  2. 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." &mdash; [http://owlfarm.pmgr.net/aspen/hst16.htm]"

    "* 2002:"I grew my face fungus to cover up an ugly mush." &mdash; [http://www.maggotdrowning.com/forum/topic.asp?ARCHIVE=true&TOPIC_ID=809]"

    "* "and your bird has an ugly mush" &mdash; [http://b3ta.com/board/archive/21323/]"

  1. Mush as a verb (transitive):

    To notch, cut, or indent (cloth, etc.) with a stamp.

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