goosh

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English

Etymology

Imitative? The sense "gush" (at least) is related to gush. The sense "smush" may be related to smoosh.

Verb

goosh (third-person singular simple present gooshes, present participle gooshing, simple past and past participle gooshed)

  1. (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.
  2. (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.
  3. (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.

Anagrams

Tlingit

Pronunciation

Noun

goosh

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Usage notes

  • As an inalienable noun, this word cannot occur without a possessor or an alienated suffix.

Inflection

Possessives of goosh
singular plural
1st person ax̱ goosh haa goosh
2nd person i goosh yee goosh
3rd person human du goosh
non-human a goosh
proximate ash goosh
indefinite human ha goosh
non-human at goosh
reflexive chush goosh
reciprocal woosh goosh