goosh

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.

Noun

goosh (uncountable)

1. That which is gushy; cloying sentimentality
   • 1980 October, Jane Goldman, quoting Debbie Harry, “Talking To Blondie”, in Forum:

     What girls are saying is: "Don't treat me like that, treat me like this." Which Nancy Sinatra initially did with "These Boots Are Made For Walking"! […] And it's not the same as "Take another piece of my heart, now," and "Baby love, baby love" — all that kind of goosh.

   • 1997 December 20, Kristi, “Wheel Repeating (was Re: Egwene)”, in rec.arts.sf.written.robert-jordan‎ (Usenet):

     And, hey, if they're evil in one life, they might be good in another (if there's any truth at all in that goosh about "I have stood at your side, LTT, in a gazillion battles and faced you in as many" that various and sundry have spewed at Rand.

Anagrams

• hogos

Tlingit

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [kùːʃ]

Noun

goosh

1. thumb

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