mash

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A mass of mixed ingredients reduced to a soft pulpy state by beating or pressure; a mass of anything in a soft pulpy state.

noun

1
A mass of mixed ingredients reduced to a soft pulpy state by beating or pressure; a mass of anything in a soft pulpy state.
2
Ground or bruised malt, or meal of rye, wheat, corn, or other grain (or a mixture of malt and meal) steeped and stirred in hot water for making the wort.
3
Mashed potatoes.
4
A mixture of meal or bran and water fed to animals.
5
obsoleteA mess; trouble.
For your vows and oaths, Or I doubt mainly, I shall be i' the mash " too

Etymology

From Middle English mash, from Old English mǣsċ, māsċ, māx, from Proto-Germanic *maiskaz, *maiskō (“mixture, mash”), from Proto-Indo-European *meyǵ-, *meyḱ- (“to mix”). Akin to German Meisch, Maische (“mash”), (compare meischen, maischen (“to mash, wash”)), Swedish mäsk (“mash”), and to Old English miscian (“to mix”). See mix.

verb

1
To convert into a mash; to reduce to a soft pulpy state by beating or pressure
We had fun mashing apples in a mill.
The potatoes need to be mashed.
2
In brewing, to convert (for example malt, or malt and meal) into the mash which makes wort, by mixing it with hot water.
3
To prepare a cup of tea in a teapot; to brew (tea).
He took the kettle off the fire and mashed the tea.
4
To press down hard (on).
to mash on a bicycle pedal
5
informalTo press.
6
archaicTo act violently.
7
informalTo press (a button) rapidly and repeatedly.

Etymology

From Middle English mashen, maschen, meshen, from Old English *māsċan, *mǣsċan, from Proto-Germanic *maiskijaną. Cognate with German maischen. Compare also Middle Low German meskewert, mēschewert (“beerwort”).

noun

1
obsoleteA mesh.

Etymology

See mesh.

verb

1
To flirt, to make eyes, to make romantic advances.
“What's the yarn about your mashing a Miss Haverley up there? Not serious, I hope?”

Etymology

Either by analogy with mash (“to press, to soften”), or more likely from Romani masha (“a fascinator, an enticer”), mashdva (“fascination, enticement”). Originally used in theater, and recorded in US in 1870s. Either originally used as mash, or a backformation from masher, from masha. Leland writes of the etymology: : It was introduced by the well-known gypsy family of actors, C., among whom Romany was habitually spoken. The word “masher” or “mash” means in that tongue to allure, delude, or entice. It was doubtless much aided in its popularity by its quasi-identity with the English word. But there can be no doubt as to the gypsy origin of “mash” as used on the stage. I am indebted for this information to the late well-known impresario [Albert Marshall] Palmer of New York, and I made a note of it years before the term had become at all popular.

noun

1
obsoleteAn infatuation, a crush, a fancy.
2
obsoleteA dandy, a masher.
3
obsoleteThe object of one’s affections (regardless of sex).

noun

1
slangA gun.
This mash works but I don't know about yours […] Better hope your mash don't jam, bare ping ping like a BB […] I see a boy run with his mash, I see a boy run with his jooka […] Don't talk about mashes, we've lost about ten I know about cookers
Rise that heater, tap that mash They don't come outside their flats Decamp, decamp, aim this toolie at your hat They piss us off on Snap, so we rise up and load them straps
Close man’s eyes, make them look Chinese Or do it like tits when the mash gets squeezed When we squeeze that mash, tell your boy don’t dash Me I just want cash But if they want war let’s leave it at dat
If the mash empty, tell boy reload it

Etymology

Mostly clipping of machine gun, but also for imitative reasons, compare the gun-names mop and broom; intentionally chosen around 2000 due to its homonymy and obscurity for legal reasons.

noun

1
Variant of maashAlternative form of maash (“a mung bean”).

Forms

plural: mashes
past tense: mashed
past participle: mashed
present participle: mashing
third person singular: mashes

mascot · Something thought to bring good luck.Mascot · A suburb in southeastern Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.masculine · Of or pertaining to the male gender.

mash · A mass of mixed ingredients reduced to a soft pulpy state by beating or pressure; a mass of anything in a soft pulpy state.

Mash · A surname.Masha · A female given name of Russian, Ukrainian origin, diminutive…mashed · Broken up into a pulpy state.

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