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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | drivel |
| Synonyms: | amorousness, flattery, sentimentality |
| Main Entry: | mush |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | any soft mass |
| Synonyms: | batter, dough, mash, pulp, slush |
| Main Entry: | mush |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sentimentality |
| Synonyms: | affectation, gush*, maudlinism, mawkishness, romanticism, schmaltz, sentimentalism, superficiality, tear-jerker |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | bathos |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sentimentality |
| Synonyms: | anticlimax, comedown, letdown, melodrama, mush, schmaltz |
| Notes: | bathos is an abrupt, unintended transition in style from the exalted to the commonplace while pathos is a quality that arouses feelings of pity, sympathy, tenderness, or sorrow |
| Main Entry: | batter |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | mixture before baking |
| Synonyms: | concoction, dough, mix, mush, paste, preparation, recipe |
| Main Entry: | flattery |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | false praise, compliments |
| Synonyms: | adulation, applause, approbation, blandishment, blarney, bootlicking, cajolery, commendation, encomium, eulogy, eyewash, fawning, flattering, flummery, fulsomeness, gallantry, gratification, hokum, honeyed words, incense, ingratiation, jive, laud, mush, obsequiousness, palaver, plaudits, pretty speech, puffery, servility, smoke*, snow job, snow*, soft words, soft-soap, stroke*, sweet talk, sycophancy, toadyism, tribute, truckling, unctuousness |
| Antonyms: | belittlement, castigation, condemnation, criticism, denunciation, insult, offense |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | kiss |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | touch one's lips to another's |
| Synonyms: | French, blow, brush, butterfly, glance, graze, greet, lip, make out, mush, neck, osculate, peck, pucker up, salute, smack*, smooch |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | mouth |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | opening |
| Synonyms: | aperture, beak, box, cavity, chops, clam, crevice, delta, door, embouchement, entrance, estuary, firth, fly trap, funnel, gate, gills, gob, harbor, inlet, jaws, kisser, lips, mush, orifice, portal, rim, trap*, yap |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | pulp |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | flesh of plant, animal |
| Synonyms: | batter, curd, dough, grume, jam, marrow, mash, mush, pap, paste, pomace, poultice, sarcocarp, semisolid, soft part, sponge, triturate |
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