Hypertext Webster Gateway: "mushy"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Mushy \Mush"y\, a.
Soft like mush; figuratively, good-naturedly weak and
effusive; weakly sentimental.

She 's not mushy, but her heart is tender. --G. Eliot.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

mushy
adj 1: having the consistency of mush
2: effusively or insincerely emotional; "a bathetic novel";
"maudlin expressons of sympathy"; "mushy effusiveness"; "a
schmaltzy song"; "sentimental soap operas"; "slushy
poetry" [syn: {bathetic}, {maudlin}, {mawkish}, {schmaltzy},
{schmalzy}, {sentimental}, {slushy}]


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