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Definition: Mush |
MushNoun1. Cornmeal boiled in water. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "mush" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1200. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Computing | MUSH 1. |
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See also mud
MUD is an acronym for multi-user dungeon (or dimension, or even domain, as many would argue), a role-playing computer game that runs on a bulletin board system or Internet server. Many people may connect simultaneously. Once connected, players control a character. They see textual descriptions of rooms, objects, other characters, and computer-controlled creatures or NPCs (non-player characters) in a virtual world. Players may interact with each other and the surroundings by typing commands that resemble plain English.
Most MUDs implement a fantasy world populated by elves, goblins, and other mythical beings. Players pretend to be knights, sorcerers, and the like. The goal of the game is to slay monsters and complete quests. Some MUDs have a science fiction setting. Most MUDs are run as hobby and are free to players. Still others, especially thoses which are based on MOOs, are used in distance education or to allow for virtual conferences. MUDs have also attracted the interest of academic scholars from many fields, including communications, sociology, law, and economics.
The popularity of MUDs escalated in the USA during the 1980s, when (relatively speaking) cheap, at-home personal computers with 300 to 2400 baud modems enabled role players to log into multi-line BBSes. Roguelike games were also becoming popular at that time. In Europe at around the same time, MUD development was centered around academic networks, particularly at the University of Essex where it was played by many people, both internal and external to the University. The MUD scene is still very much alive on the Internet, and can be accessed via standard telnet clients. Specialized MUD clients exist that give a more pleasant user experience.
MUD variants
Once computer power increased and Internet connectivity became ubiquitous, the graphical MMORPGs (massively multiplayer online role-playing games) developed. Unlike earlier MUDs, most MMORPGs are commercial ventures. Examples of MMORPGs include:
The original MUDs drew their inspiration from paper-and-pencil based games such as Dungeons & Dragons (hence their name), and the computer game Original Adventure. The first MUD was created and written by Roy Trubshaw and Richard Bartle at Essex University in the UK [1]: a version of this first MUD is still running at www.mud2.com. The first popular MUD was AberMUD written by Alan Cox, also known as Anarchy, named after the University of Aberystwyth, Wales. Over time variants have diversified into other models while retaining the textual format. For example, some variants are called MUCKs, MUSHs, LPMUDs, and MOOs.
- Anarchy Online (2001)
- Asheron's Call (1999)
- EverQuest (1999)
- Ultima Online (1997)
A MUSH is often said to mean multi-player shared hallucination. MUSHes descend from the program TinyMUD. MUSHes date back to the early 1990s. They are more directly concerned with role-playing (acting) than MUDs, dispensing with the experience systems. Instead, players focus on creating their character's life as accurately as possible. Members of the MUSH family include PernMUSH, PennMUSH, TinyMUSH, TinyMUSE and TinyMUX.
A MUCK, which is an acronym of Multi-User Chat Kingdom, is similar to a MUSH in that the emphasis is on player interaction, rather than action and questing. MUCKs and MUSHes differ from IRC as a chat medium in that they provide a world, character descriptions etc in order to flesh out role-playing chat.
Other variants emphasize building by providing players with a powerful programming language (as in MOOs) to make their own objects and rooms, or function as elaborate chat systems with no fantasy trappings.
When referring to MUDs, MUCKs, MUSHes etc. all alike, the term MU* is often used.
Talkers and Spods
A lesser known variant is the talker, typically based on ew-too, summink, sensi-summink, playground, and plenty of other code bases. The talker is essentially a MUD, with most of the complex bits of code stripped away, leaving just the communication level commands -- hence the name talker. People who use these tend to be called spods. The spod tends to be something of a long term fanatic. Where many mudders may move on after a year or two, people who use talkers typically have been doing so for a decade or more. Talkers are signifigantly easier to run than an average MUD, since they don't incorporate very much artificial intelligence, and they are usually much more user friendly, since there is not often much fighting as a focus. In other words, whole families of husbands, wives, children, and siblings have been known to spod in certain circles. They also use very little network traffic, and use simple protocols, making them ideal for setting up quietly at work.
The spod has earned a place in the Jargon File.
Popular MU*s
- Realms of Chaos
- BatMUD
- LambdaMOO
- TinyTIM
- FurryMUCK
- SvenskMud
- Elendor (MUSH)
- Simutronics
- NannyMUD
Interesting MUDs
- Materia Magica
- Medievia
- QuestWar
External Links
- www.mudconnector.com: Extensive list of available MUDs
- [1] : List of the "top" MUDs.
- If you want to know more about MUSH coding and MUSHes, take a look at the MUSH Manual, created by Lydia Leong. This document is quite old and out of date in many ways, but it remains the best starting point for newcomers to MUSH.
- The SMAUG MUDserver is an advanced version in the Diku-Merc-ROM lineage.
- TinyMUX 2.1 is a variant of TinyMUSH 2.0 which incorporates many of the distinctive features of PennMUSH, TinyMUSE, and other MUSH variants.
- Similarly, TinyMUSH 3.0 is a variant of TinyMUX 1.6 which has been melded with TinyMUSH 2.4.
- Further reading for MUD development and server origination can be found at Kyndig
- Some history and reviews from Richard Bartle's "Interactive Multi-User Computer Games" report.
- There is more information about MUD culture and history in the Jargon File.
- For an academic look at MUDs, see Sherry Turkle's writings.
In the game of Contract bridge MUD is a defensive signalling convention that stands for Middle-Up-Down. A defender who plays his cards in this order is better able to communicate to his partner the number of cards he holds in the suit. The partner is thus able to infer the complete distribution of the suit.
Derivatives: Mudding, Mudder
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "MUD."
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Wet soil or sediment is commonly referred to as mud. Geologically speaking, mud is a mixture of water and particles of silt and clay. Ancient mud deposits harden over geological time to siltstone or mudrock (lutites}.See also: slurry, MUD
Mud is also the name of a British glam rock band of the 1970s, best remembered for their single "Tiger Feet".
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Mud."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
MUSH | English | Multi-User Shared Hallucination | Computer - (MUD) |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonym: MushSynonym: cornmeal mush (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Pulpiness | Mush, oatmeal, baby food. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Mush |
| English words defined with "mush": atole ♦ hasty pudding ♦ mushy ♦ Supawn ♦ To fall upon. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "mush": diapir ♦ filter pressing, flowage differentiation ♦ magma chamber, mail user agent, Mail Users' Shell, miss, MUD Object Oriented, Multi-User Shared Hallucination. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | You come in here with a head full of mush and you leave thinking like a lawyer (The Paper Chase; writing credit: James Bridges; John Jay Osborn Jr.) | |
Lyrics | It was all a bunch of mush (Most Girls; performing artist: Pink) | |
Tongue Twisters | Moose noshing much mush. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Mush and Milk (1933) Midsummer Mush (1933) The Fable of the Author and the Dear Public and the Plate of Mush (1914) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Theater & Movies | |
Music |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | [Itinerants eating the free mush breakfast]. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | R. J. Boyd playing fiddle; and Millard Garrett playing banjo, both from Sandy Mush, N.C., at the Mountain Music Festival, Asheville, North Carolina. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Little Americans, do your bit Eat oatmeal, corn meal mush, [...] Save the wheat for our soldiers - Leave nothing on your plate / / Cushman Parker. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Little Americans, do your bit Eat oatmeal, corn meal mush, [...] Save the wheat for our soldiers - Leave nothing on your plate / / Cushman Parker. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Author | Quotation |
Oliver Wendell Holmes | Knowledge like timber shouldn't be mush use till they are seasoned. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | You can have sugar on your mush or in your coffee |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | MISS, n. The title with which we brand unmarried women to indicate that they are in the market. Miss, Missis (Mrs.) and Mister (Mr.) are the three most distinctly disagreeable words in the language, in sound and sense. Two are corruptions of Mistress, the other of Master. In the general abolition of social titles in this our country they miraculously escaped to plague us. If we must have them let us be consistent and give one to the unmarried man. I venture to suggest Mush, abbreviated to Mh. |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Mush" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 69.84% of the time. "Mush" is used about 63 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 69.84% | 44 | 51,500 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 20.63% | 13 | 97,576 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 4.76% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Noun (proper) | 3.17% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Unclassified Items | 1.59% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 63 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "mush": cornmeal mush ♦ so mush. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
mush | 86 | ball mush | 4 |
client mush | 19 | mush music | 4 |
teva mush | 16 | elendor mush | 4 |
mush oi | 10 | camp mush mush | 3 |
mush record | 10 | mush star war | 3 |
cornmeal mush | 8 | dark metal mush | 3 |
mouth mush | 7 | head mush room | 3 |
corn meal mush | 7 | morton mush | 3 |
list mush | 7 | mush song | 3 |
matrix mush | 6 | drug mush | 3 |
mush sandal teva | 6 | man mush x | 3 |
harry mush potter | 6 | mud mush | 3 |
liver mush | 6 | herb mush nursery sandy | 3 |
man mega mush | 6 | mush sandy | 3 |
code mush | 5 | corn meal mush recipe | 2 |
michigan mush | 5 | mush mush | 2 |
mush teva woman | 4 | fried mush | 2 |
mush warehouse | 4 | inn mush | 2 |
mush teva thong | 4 | cornmeal mush recipe | 2 |
mush recipe | 4 | mush shadowrun | 2 |
corn mush | 2 | ||
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "mush"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | masë e butë (mash, pulp), udhëtim me slitë, qull me miell misri, ombrellë (parasol, umbrella), kaçamak (grits, hominy). (various references) | |
Arabic | وجه (aim, aspect, boss, change, control, countenance, cox, destine, direct, engineer, face, guide, maw, mug, officer, orient oneself, orientate, pan, phiz, point, preside, rein, shepherd, snout, steer, visage), عصيدة (gruel, mash, porridge, puree, samp). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | чадър (Brolly, umbrella), качамак (hominy, samp), каша (bungle, hash, lash up, mash, mess, mess up, pap). (various references) | |
Chinese | 软糊状食物. (various references) | |
Czech | sentimentální řeèi, kaše (mash, pap, pulp), břeèka (dishwater, slush), šlichta (mash, slipslop, slops, swill). (various references) | |
Danish | grød (gruel, mess), vælling (gruel, mess). (various references) | |
Dutch | pap (gruel, mess), moes (gruel, jam, marmelade, mess), brij (gruel, mess). (various references) | |
Esperanto | kaĉo (gruel, mess). (various references) | |
Faeroese | greytur (gruel, mess). (various references) | |
Farsi | پیاده دربرف سفرکردن , پارازیت (Noise, Parasite), حریره اردذرت تهیه کردن , حریره اردذرت , سفرپیاده دربرف , خمیرنرم (Mash, Pap), خش خش , احساسات بیش ازحد. (various references) | |
Finnish | puuro (cooked cereal, gruel, mess, porridge, pudding). (various references) | |
French | bouillie, purée. (various references) | |
Frisian | brij (gruel, mess). (various references) | |
German | Mus (gruel, jam, mess, puree), Brei (goo, gruel, mash, mess, pap, paste, porridge, pulp, puree, semi-solid food). (various references) | |
Greek | κουρκούτι (flummery, gruel, pap), σάχλα (mawkishness, sloppiness), σαχλαμάρα (bosh, bunk, foolery, idiocy, platitude, stupidity, trifle), πεζοπορία επί του χιονιού, πολτόσ αραβοσίτου, χυλόσ (chyle, gruel, pap, porridge, puree), χυλός (gruel, pap, pap meals), ανοησία (baloney, bunk, fatuity, fatuousness, foolery, foolishness, fooolishness, immunity, inanity, nonsense, nonsensicalness, piffle, puerility, rot, shenanighan, silliness, tommy rot). (various references) | |
Hebrew | "יס" (cereal, gruel, mess of pottage, pap, porridge). (various references) | |
Hungarian | pép (mash, pap, pulp, purée, puree, squash), kása (pulp, squash). (various references) | |
Italian | pappa (baby food, pap, pulp). (various references) | |
Manx | meinn vroit, buiggid (blandness, blandness of climate, flabbiness, pulpiness, slackness, softness). (various references) | |
Papiamen | papa (father, gruel, mess). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ushmay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | mingau (corn meal, gruel, mash, mess, pap), tolice (applesauce, barney, blunder, bosh, bungle, fiddle-de-dee, flapdoodle, folly, foolery, foolishness, guff, gup, howler, ineptitude, ineptness, infelicity, moonshine, nonsense, piffle, rot, silliness, simplicity, tomfoolery, tommy rot, tripe, twaddle, unreason), purê (gruel, mess, puree), polpa macia, papas (gruel, mess, pap), guarda-chuva (brolly, gingham), disparate (absurdity, balderdash, blather, blether, bloomer, bosh, bull, bunk, disparate, fiddle-de-dee, fiddlestick, flapdoodle, flummery, foolery, foolishness, fribble, fudge, guff, gup, hot, howler, moonshine, nonsense, piffle, punk, simplicity, skittle, tomfoolery, tommy rot, tripe, tump, twaddle, unreason, unwisdom), desordem (affray, clutter, confusion, disarrangement, disarray, discomposure, donnybrook, fray, huddle, hugger-mugger, hurry-scurry, jumble, litter, mess, misrule, muddle, muss, pandemonium, pell-mell, perturbation, riot, rough-and-tumble, rout, ruction, ruffle, rumpus, scuffle, stir, topsy-turvy, tumble, tumult, turbulence, turmoil, untidiness, uproar, upset). (various references) | |
Romanian | masã vâscoasã, terci (gruel, hominy, mash, pap, paste), prostii (apple-sauce, balderdash, bosh, drivel, eyewash, fiddle-faddle, fiddlesticks, fudge, gammon, moonshine, nonsense, poppy-cock, rats, rubbish, skittles, stuff and nonsense, tosh, trash, tripe), pãsat (coarsely ground maize, mash, millet, pap), coleaşã (mash, pap). (various references) | |
Russian | чепуха (apple, apple sauce, baloney, blah, boloney, drool, fiddledeedee, fiddlesticks, flapdoodle, galimatias, jiggery-pokery, piece of nonsense, poppycock, stuff and nonsense, tommy rot, trumpery), каша (kasha, porridge, stirabout, stir-about), кашица (gruel, pap, paste), вздор (all my eye, balderdash, baloney, blah, boloney, bosh, fiddlesticks, flimflam, fudge, gammon, humbug, jiggery pokery, kibosh, nonsense, poppycock, rot, rubbish, tommy rot, tommyrot, tosh), маисовая каша, зонтик (gingham, sunshade, umbel, umbrella). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | sentimentalnost (namby-pamby, sentimentality), kaša (mash, pap, porridge, pulp, squash), besmislica (applesauce, balderdash, blah, blether, bosh, bull, bunkum, double dutch, double talk, extravagance, fiddlestick, flubdub, nonsense, pointlessness, ruck, tosh). (various references) | |
Spanish | masa blanda, sentimentalismo (gush, sentiment, sentimentalism, sentimentality, slush, sob stuff), sensiblería (bathos, mawkishness, sappiness, sentimentality), papilla (pap), interferencia (interference, jam, jamming), gachas (gruel, slop, stirabout), gacha (slops, thin paste). (various references) | |
Swedish | mos (mash, pomace, pulp, squash), dravel (drivel). (various references) | |
Thai | บ" (squash), อาหารเปียกหรือบ"ละเอีย", หน้า (kip, kipper, mug), คำเรียกชายแปลกหน้า. (various references) | |
Turkish | pelte (gel, jell, jelly, pectin), lapa (mash, pap, poultice, pulp, rice pudding, spoon meat), köpek kızağına binmek, aşırı duygusallık (schmaltz, sentimentality, slush, sob stuff). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | каша, м'якуш (pulp), дурниця (absurdity, absurdness, applesauce, balderdash, ballyhoo, bosh, buncombe, froth, humbug, nonsense, piffle, poppycock, porridge, rigmarole, rubbish, sappiness, shucks, slum, trash, tripe). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | h" bột, cháo ngô chuyện lãng mạn. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | pultes. (various references) |
| French | 1500-Modern | marchons!. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "mush": mushed, musher, mushers, mushes, mushier, mushiest, mushily, mushiness, mushinesses, mushing, mushroom, mushroomed, mushrooming, mushrooms, mushy. (additional references) | |
Words containing "mush": tsutsugamushi, tsutsugamushis. (additional references) | |
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"Mush" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: amuesha, aush, mesch, mesht, mihs, Misho, misph, Mmuh, moosh, mosh, mosht, mpus, Msha, Muehl, muh, Muhl, muish, mulsh, munshi, murh, mursh, musc, Mushtq, musi, muso, musr, musth, musu, Muth, mutha, muus, muz, muza, muzhik, Nuesch, Nush, Umh, Umsl, ush. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "mush" (pronounced mu"sh) |
| 2 | -u" sh | blush, brush, crush, flush, gush, hush, lush, plush, rush, slush, thrush. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: hums. | |
| Words within the letters "h-m-s-u" | |
-1 letter: hum, mus, sum. | |
-2 letters: hm, mu, sh, uh, um, us. | |
| Words containing the letters "h-m-s-u" | |
+1 letter: chums, humps, humus, mushy, musth. | |
+2 letters: ambush, bumphs, chumps, haulms, hokums, humans, hummus, humors, humphs, khoums, mohurs, mouths, muches, mulish, mushed, musher, mushes, musths, rheums, rhumbs, samshu, shamus, shlump, shmuck, smutch, sumach, thrums, thumbs, thumps, thymus, unmesh, whumps. | |
+3 letters: bismuth, bushman, bushmen, chymous, cumshaw, dumpish, exhumes, fulhams, gumshoe, hamauls, hamulus, hassium, heaumes, heliums, humates, humbles, humbugs, humerus, hummers, humours, humuses, humvees, inhumes, ischium, isthmus, lumpish, mahouts, maybush, meshuga, mouches, mudfish, mugshot, muhlies, mulches, mullahs, munches, murrhas, mushers, mushier, mushily, mushing, mutches, muzhiks, quamash, rhamnus, rhombus, rhumbas, sambhur, samshus, schlump, schmuck, shlumps, shlumpy, shmucks, smashup, smutchy, sorghum, sumachs, unhelms. | |
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