hoosh - A kind of thick soup.
1905 R. F. Scott Voy. ‘Discovery’ I. 445 The cook+proceeded to prepare the ingredients of the hoosh, by which term the hot, thick soup that constituted the sledging meal was generally known. 1911 I Jrnl. 29 Nov. in Last Exped. (1913) I. xvi. 479 They had some of Chinaman's undercut in their hoosh yesterday. 1919 E. H. Shackleton South xii. 239 The hoosh-pot with our precious limpets and seaweed was kicked over in the rush. 1922 Chambers's Jrnl. Jan. 73/2 The thick savoury ‘hoosh’ of pemmican and broken plasmon biscuit.
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