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mush noun A heavy cornmeal porridge.

1864 Watkins Letters (June 20) I tell you hit was like eating milk and mush with Spoons. 1967 DARE Survey (Maryville TN) = boiled corn meal. 1973 GSMNP-70:2:2 Everybody used what they called milk and mush for supper. 1982 Smokies Heritage 36 Cornmeal became many things: johnny cake, mush, bread, and corn pone—all, however, made from the same basic recipe of meal, salt, and water. It was seldom that one saw a pioneer table without corn pone or mush.