goosh
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Imitative? The sense "gush" (at least) is related to gush. The sense "smush" may be related to smoosh.
Verb
[edit]goosh (third-person singular simple present gooshes, present participle gooshing, simple past and past participle gooshed)
- (informal) To move in a messy, liquid manner.
- 1990, Sandra Dengler, East of Outback (Australian Destiny Book #4), Baker Books, →ISBN:
- The ground gooshed in places, soggy from the winter rains.
- 1999, H. Mel Malton, Cue the Dead Guy: A Polly Deacon Mystery, page 202:
- In a way, it's rather useful to have your body remind you on a regular basis that there's healthy red stuff gooshing around inside you, just below the surface […]
- 2006, Evelyn Vaughn, Grail Keepers Duo, page 71:
- I waded out, my hair streaming water down my back, my toes gooshing deliciously in the mud.
- (informal) To gush.
- 2002, Piers Anthony, Pornucopia:
- More fluid gooshed forth, arching beautifully and descending to strike Prior's arm. It was hot and gooey and repulsive.
- 2016, Jessi Klein, You'll Grow Out of It, Grand Central Publishing, →ISBN:
- In layman's terms, your husband/boyfriend/donor spooges into a jar and then the contents of that jar are gooshed up your puss with a turkey baster. SCIENCE!
- 2018, Hank Phillippi Ryan, Trust Me: A Novel, Forge Books, →ISBN:
- As the coffee gooshes into a cup, I imagine that dysfunctional family dynamic.
- (informal) To smush, to smash.
- a. 1994, Bill Watterson, Homicidal Psycho Jungle Cat, Andrews McMeel, →ISBN, page 153
- Calvin: Here's a bug plodding resolutely across the dirt. […] If he's mocking me, I'm gonna goosh him.
- 2010, Joe Knotts, The Green Bear Stories, Dog Ear Publishing, →ISBN, page 69:
- It was like walking on gooshed together marshmallows: a bit sticky, but doable. Have you ever gooshed marshmallows? It's kind of messy, but lots of fun. You take a few of those large marshmallows in your fingers and pull them apart and stuff them together over and over until they become one big sticky blob.
- 2019, Stanley Bruce Carter, The Depraved Dances of Taram Zhod, Gypsy Shadow Publishing, →ISBN, page 94:
- Risu looked for the bees but they were nowhere to be found—not even a gooshed one, and surely she must've gooshed at least a few during her frantic swatting. Pesky things. A movement to the left attracted her eye.
- a. 1994, Bill Watterson, Homicidal Psycho Jungle Cat, Andrews McMeel, →ISBN, page 153
Anagrams
[edit]Tlingit
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]goosh
Usage notes
[edit]- As an inalienable noun, this word cannot occur without a possessor or an alienated suffix.