(a.) Soft like mush; figuratively, good-naturedly weak and effusive; weakly sentimental.
Example Sentences:
(1) "Jellied eels were always considered a regional dish, much like haggis is to Scotland, mushy peas are to northern England and laver bread is to Wales."
(2) Fatbergs build up on sewer roofs like mushy stalactites.
(3) Thirty-three patients (97%) had diarrhea, and properties of the stools were watery in twenty-four and mushy in nine.
(4) Terrified by the potential for offence, terrified also of giving the impression that any one line of thought was preferable to any other, the default position on every subject became a mushy relativism where every conceivable matter of opinion was deemed to be as valuable as any other.
(5) The remaining Covent Garden branch will continue to offer a range of "proud British flavours", including fish and chips with mushy peas at £14.95; pork belly, banger and mash for £14.50, and sticky toffee pudding with clotted cream at £6.
(6) The world leaders invited to dine by Queen Margrethe supped on turkey and mushy peas, and were serenaded by the Danish Royal Life Guards bands playing George Harrison's Here Comes the Sun.
(7) Last week he unveiled a house in Southwark made of 10 tonnes of wax bricks, which will be heated each morning over the coming month, until is is no more than a mushy puddle on the pavement.
(8) It is proposed that egg counts from 1- to 3-year-olds be multiplied by 0.3, those from 4- to 6-year-olds by 0.5, those from 7- to 9-year-olds by 0.6, and those from 10 to 12-year-olds by 0.7; differences in mean egg density among various fecal consistencies produced factors of 1, 1.5, 2, 3, and 3.5 by which the egg counts in formed, mushy-formed, mushy, mushy-diarrheic, and diarrheic feces should be increased.
(9) This report reviews the authors' experience with these injuries, focusing on the recognition and management of what the authors call "complex" DRUJ dislocations: dislocations characterized by obvious irreducibility, recurrent subluxation, or "mushy" reduction caused by soft tissue or bone interposition.
(10) Most of them kept records of three consecutive defecations, including stool form on a validated six point scale ranging from hard, round lumps to mushy.
(11) Mistaking the northern staple of mushy peas for a more metropolitan avocado dip, the urbane Mr Mandelson asked for "some of that guacamole" to accompany his haddock and chips.
(12) 'Share a meal of fish and chips with your family every day for around 10 weeks, with a couple of portions of mushy peas thrown in' "If the government just communicated with people in dry multi-page documents people would be saying they should do things in a fresh and modern way."
(13) He recently emerged from a serious heart attack and, deciding that he was by nature resilient, indulged exactly the same appetites, sinking quantities of the bourbon supplied by a son who worked in the US; eating deep fried cod, chips and mushy peas on Brighton seafront, washed down with dry white wine rather than mugs of tea; resuming a full and fascinating love life that had included two marriages along the way, with two much-loved sons from each.
(14) The nuts bring clagginess and the fruit is too wet, so the result is soggy and mushy with a mouth-coating trace of clay, a sort of repulsive pabulum whose problem is not its flavour but its mouthfeel.
(15) The stage was thus set for Andy Burnham and Yvette Cooper to emerge as Labour’s moderate healers – Cooper with a defiant defence of the spending record, and Burnham with a mushy appeal to the “heart of Labour”.
(16) Careful attention to these injuries during initial reduction attempts will reveal "mushy" or unobtainable reductions, an important indication for exploration for entrapped tendon, bone, or soft tissue.
(17) "It looks like there's going to be another mushy minestrone of a coalition.
(18) Trypanosome prevalence in cattle where G.tabaniformis appeared to be the main vector was 9.5% and 5.4% at the Mushie and OGAPROV ranches, respectively.
(19) Experiments performed on dogs to determine their stomach contents after death indicated that, in high-temperature conditions, for example, the ingested chunks of meat are reduced to a mushy-sloppy consistency after three days, suggesting that digestion will proceed to some extent after death as putrefaction continues.
(20) Maria Ellis's stuffed tofu Ginger beer-battered stuffed tofu with Asian mushy peas.
Musky
Definition:
(a.) Having an odor of musk, or somewhat the like.
Example Sentences:
(1) Lateral thinking was needed to decipher old signs: Adam and Eve meant a fruiterer; a bugle’s horn, a post office; a unicorn, an apothecary’s; a spotted cat, a perfumer’s (since civet, a fashionable musky perfume, was scraped from the anal glands of African civet cats).
(2) The Temple offers a kaleidoscope of incense-scented mayhem, where golden centaurs and exotic urns sprawl alongside zodiac drapes and musky shrines to the Virgin Mary, Lakshmi and other female icons.
(3) Axillary 5 alpha-androstenone values were generally consistent with the 'musky' or 'strong' smells of male axillary extracts, compared with the 'sweet' smell of those from female subjects.
(4) However, a musky fug reminiscent of boiled onions and violets lingering in the side passage, and the twisted, taper-ended faeces deposited on the path, left me in no doubt as to the thief’s identity – a fox.
(5) And, of course, in 1972 Edmund Muskie, the seemingly inevitable Democratic frontrunner, melted down in part because of a rumor he was prejudiced against French Canadians .
(6) Detection thresholds for a representative from each of seven odorant classes (putrid, pepperminty, ethereal, camphoraceous, pungent, musky, floral) were determined by double-blind smell testing of seven normal males, six normal females, 6 patients with uncomplicated congenital anosmia and 13 patients with the syndrome of congenital anosmia and hypogonadotropic hypogonadism (the Kallmann syndrome, olfactogenital dysplasia).
(7) I have fed lots of people their first oysters over the years, and turned them on to the sweet musky taste of urchins, and had my share of disappointments, too.
(8) In another experiment, he eats a woodchuck, enjoying it, "notwithstanding its musky flavour", though he doubts it will become an item for the village butcher.
(9) The Muskie School of Public Service at the University of Southern Maine reports that the project showed an 11.1% increase in immunization rates in those practices over 26 months.
(10) Examples include crayfish, from the French écrevisse (not a fish but a kind of lobster); sparrow grass as a variant for asparagus in some English dialects; muskrat (conveniently musky, and a rodent, but named because of the Algonquin word muscascus meaning red); and female, which isn't a derivative of male at all, but comes from old French femelle meaning woman.