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Affection so soft it technically qualifies as a texture, not an emotion.

means Excessively sentimental talk or feeling — the gooey, soft-hearted stuff that makes you say 'aww' or roll your eyes, depending on your tolerance.

from Originally just the food sense — a soft, pulpy mass, especially boiled cornmeal, recorded from the 1700s and likely a variant of 'mash.' The emotional meaning ('don't give me that mush') grew straight out of the food: sentiment so soft and shapeless it might as well be porridge. As a dogsled command, 'mush!' is unrelated — probably a garbled borrowing from French 'marchons' ('let's walk'), carried north by French-Canadian trappers and mushers.

sled dog term
mushers never actually say mush out loud
origin theory
possibly from french marchons, meaning let's walk
food form
boiled cornmeal, grandpa's breakfast of choice
emotional form
what tough people turn into near puppies
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