mush n.2
the face or mouth.
[ | ![]() | Gent’s Mag. (1844) Sept. 233/2: Many a prety kusse Had I of his swete musse ]. | Phyllyp Sparowe in
![]() | ‘De May-Bush’ in Ireland Ninety Years Ago (1885) 90: And dere he kept singin’, as sweet as a trush – / His faulchin in one hand, his pipe in his mush. | |
![]() | Vocabulum 127: mush. The mouth. | |
![]() | N.E. Police Gaz. (Boston, MA) 12 Oct. 8/3: Every time Maurice Lynch opens his cod fish moush the upper part of his head seems about to secede from the lower . | |
![]() | Dead Bird (Sydney) 22 Feb. 4/2: She endeavoured to give him a back-hander over the mush. | |
![]() | More Ex-Tank Tales 85: I’d seen his mush in Byrne’s mug book. | |
![]() | Fact’ry ’Ands 202: Er stream iv water thick ez that, takes Fuzzy fair in the mush. | |
![]() | Taking the Count 207: You can let a man wear himself out hitting you in the mush. | ‘Scrap Iron’ in|
![]() | Truth (Melbourne) 3 Jan. 11/4: She swung a tighty-clenched fist, propelled by a muscular arm, onto to Michael’s mush. | |
![]() | Vocab. Criminal Sl. 60: moosh, moush [...] The human face; the physiog. [...] Also the mouth [...] Example: ‘He’s got a harp moosh,’ i.e., Irish. | |
![]() | Digger Dialects 34: moush — Mouth. | |
![]() | Professor How Could You! 308: Close the mush! | |
![]() | (con. 1910s) Studs Lonigan (1936) 3: He had pasted Weary in the mush with an icy snowball. | Young Lonigan in|
![]() | Press (Canterbury) 2 Apr. 18: A ‘moosh’ or ‘gate’ is mouth. | |
![]() | Capricornia (1939) 66: Shut your meaty moosh or I’ll shut it for you. | |
![]() | These Are My People (1957) 125: I caught him fair on the moosh and he spat teeth everywhere. | |
![]() | Dead Ringer 130: With that grin on his mush – he looked about as sinister as Porky Pig. | |
![]() | Black Cargo 191: I just hauled off and lobbed a beaut fair in his moosh. | |
![]() | (con. 1940s) Borstal Boy 168: First thing [...] you get a poke in the mush. | |
![]() | Inside Mr Enderby in Complete Enderby (2002) 65: This here’s my fist [...] You’ll get it straight in the moosh, straight up you will. | |
![]() | Fair Go, Spinner 70: I told the big mug I’d give him a double whammy on the moush-houser. | |
![]() | Fill the Stage With Happy Hours (1967) Act V: Great laughs and titters at me being seen waving a razor round my mush. | |
![]() | I’m a Jack, All Right 122: Always had a red mooch. Never have found out whether it’s sunburn or grog. | |
![]() | Tell Morning This 156: ‘From the silly look on his mush you’d think he was a bloody imbecile’. | |
![]() | Holy Smoke 10: Buzz orf home, before I belt y’ one in the moosh. | |
![]() | Don’t Point That Thing at Me (1991) 43: The rich autumnal tints on his swollen moosh. | |
![]() | Family Arsenal 149: It’s all shiny, sort of moving and blowing up in me mush. | |
![]() | An Eng. Madam 59: She [...] with the warpaint on her moosh. | |
![]() | Dandy Comic Library Special No. 11 53: Hit Sniffy in the mush and win a coconut. | |
![]() | White Shoes 39: [He] rubbed a bit of cream on his moosh. | |
![]() | Vinnie Got Blown Away 173: See him trying to get a blade out then see Julie Seagrave grab his arm bring her heel down his mush. | |
![]() | Penguin Bk of More Aus. Jokes 338: The Welshman punched him in the moosh. | |
![]() | Great Mortdecai Moustache Mystery 129: If you like having a soup-strainer hanging from your moosh. | |
![]() | Ten Storey Love Song 13: Boby’s about to slam the door in the pizza boy’s mush. | |
![]() | Fever Kill 187: Give him any static and he’ll smack you in the mush, dig? | |
![]() | Crime Factory: Hard Labour [ebook] It’s funny what pointless details you make out when you’re staring death in the mush. | ‘Dread Fellow Churls’ in