different between goosh vs golosh

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.
2. (informal) To gush.
   • 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.

English

Noun

golosh (plural goloshes)

1. Alternative spelling of galosh