What's the difference between mush and tush?

Mush


Definition:

  • (n.) Meal (esp. Indian meal) boiled in water; hasty pudding; supawn.
  • (v. t.) To notch, cut, or indent, as cloth, with a stamp.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Obama doesn't have much to say, and neither does Mitt Romney but after that Libya cock-up his brain is mush and he starts going on about two parent families – what?
  • (2) To be sure, it is suffocating, narrow and on the edge of a descent into a mediocre mush.
  • (3) The roots of mush maternal mortality lie in discrimination agianst women, in terms of legal status and access to education, financial resources and health care, including family planning.
  • (4) 8.29pm BST They are "putting the mush in the brain and the lid on the brain and the brain in the fridge".
  • (5) Hence even though The Friday Times published Mush and Bush during General Musharraf’s regime, it escaped censure.
  • (6) The Friday Times, a weekly from Lahore, has published a series of fictitious satirical diaries over the years: Dear Diary by Benazir Bhutto; Ittefaqnama by Nawaz Sharif (the current prime minister); Mush and Bush, a telephone conversation between General Musharraf and President Bush; Howzzat by Im the Dim (Imran Khan) – all written by the publisher, Jugnu Mohsin.
  • (7) And as I write, he cops a solid whack to the mush in round three.
  • (8) Bring to the boil, then reduce the heat to a gentle simmer and cook for 40-60 minutes or until the lentils are soft and start to mush, becoming sauce-like.
  • (9) In public life we often hear politicians slipping into management mush.
  • (10) Arguing that the film's promotion of partisan political views was "irremediable" and that it contained scientific inaccuracies and "sentimental mush", Mr Dimmock attempted to get the film totally banned from schools in England.
  • (11) Sherman's work has always been a vibrant mush of ideas.
  • (12) As I was standing, with a sodden piece of cardboard around my neck, slowly turning to mush in the rain, knowing that the pre-sales to the show were nil, I saw one of my former colleagues walk towards me.
  • (13) I knocked out several bestsellers while sitting on the balcony of my old apartment in the middle of Bangkok, but put me in the countryside and my brain turns to mush.
  • (14) We must “stop China’s cyber attacks, stop their territorial expansion into international waters,” stop Russia from “[encountering] mush” and “pushing” with bayonets, make sure Israel isn’t having a sad, cripple Iran with sanctions and ignore everything about climate change because “the greatest threat to future generations is radical Islamic terrorism and we need to do something about it.” The great thing about ignoring science and practicality while threatening to go to war against more than 1.5bn people around the globe is that, if there are any enemy survivors after the bombing stops, they can sail to the port city of Orlando and gawk enviously at all the free people queuing up for their mandatory drug tests atop a natural gas pipeline But don’t sell Walker short on his zero foreign policy experience.
  • (15) The good news, though, "from your point of view", was that "the first few times I opened it up, after having obeyed every single instruction, all there seemed to be was a bit of mush in the bottom."
  • (16) Mush of the data obtained were interpreted as being compatible with the elft atrial volume-receptor hypothesis, but very liggle of the data pertained to left atrial receptors specifically.
  • (17) My God … I watched all 20 minutes of Sarah Palin’s mush-mouthed, meandering speech and analyzed it for you, but first, I’d like to offer up these five quotes.
  • (18) In sitcom after sitcom and movie after movie, and in his other job as a voiceover actor and artist, he has staked a place for himself as perhaps the most aggressively amusing, terrifying, vanity-free and daring of post-Apatow, post-Seinfeld comic actors – an incredibly dependable and omnipresent A-type bully and crybaby with a heart of pure mush.
  • (19) But Labour's answer is a warm, statist mush, wishing good things for everyone, but most of all a powerful state helping grateful citizens.
  • (20) He then lapses into a mush of critical theory about how he assembles his influences.

Tush


Definition:

  • (interj.) An exclamation indicating check, rebuke, or contempt; as, tush, tush! do not speak of it.
  • (n.) A long, pointed tooth; a tusk; -- applied especially to certain teeth of horses.

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