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Vinony

mush

noun

  1. food
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verb

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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /mʌʃ/ / /mʊʃ/

intj

Etymology: Believed to be a contraction of mush on, from Michif, in turn a corruption of French marche 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”).

  1. A directive given (usually to dogs or a horse) to start moving, or to move faster.

    “"An' of course the dogs can hike along all day with that contraption behind them," affirmed a second of the men. / "Certainly," said Hal, with freezing politeness, taking hold of the gee-pole with one hand and swinging his whip from the other. "Mush!" he shouted. "Mush on there!" / The dogs sprang against the breast-bands, strained hard for a few moments, then relaxed. They were unable to move the sled.”

name

Etymology: Borrowed from Armenian Մուշ (Muš).

  1. A historically Armenian city in the Turuberan province of Greater Armenia, now in eastern Turkey.
  2. A province of Turkey.

noun

Etymology: 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).

  1. A cab driver who is the owner of their cab, and sometimes a small number of other cabs as well; a musher.

verb

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

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