different between goosh vs gosh

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

Etymology

Euphemism (or minced oath) for God. First seen in 1757 as by gosh, probably from by gosse in Nicholas Udall's Ralph Roister Doister (circa 1553).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /????/
• Rhymes: -??

Interjection

gosh

1. (minced oath) A mild expression of surprise or enthusiasm.

   Gosh, I didn’t realize I’d cause so much trouble!

   Gosh, I’d love to go to that concert!

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:wow

Translations

See also

• damn

Anagrams

• GOHs, GSOH, GoHs, Gohs, gsoh, hogs, shog