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goosh

verb, noun

goosh is spelled G-O-O-S-H: 5 letters. It appears about once in every 81 million words in written English, the 286,585th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a verb, goosh means “To move in a messy, liquid manner” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in goosh?

Letters5: G-O-O-S-H
In writingabout once in every 81 million words; the 286,585th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is goosh?

Goosh appears about once in every 81 million words in written English, the 286,585th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Forms of goosh

  • gooshes present, singular, he/she/it
  • gooshing participle, present
  • gooshed participle, past

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does goosh mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

verb

  1. 1

    informalTo move in a messy, liquid manner.

  2. 2

    informalTo gush.

  3. 3

    informalTo smush, to smash.

    Calvin: Here's a bug plodding resolutely across the dirt. […] If he's mocking me, I'm gonna goosh him.

noun

  1. 1

    That which is gushy; cloying sentimentality

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Where does goosh come from?

Imitative? The sense "gush" (at least) is related to gush. The sense "smush" may be related to smoosh.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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