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mash

1

[ mash ]

verb (used with object)

  1. to crush:

    He mashed his thumb with a hammer.

  2. to reduce to a soft, pulpy mass, as by beating or pressure, especially in the preparation of food.
  3. to mix (crushed malt or meal of grain) with hot water to form wort.


noun

  1. a soft, pulpy mass.
  2. a pulpy condition.
  3. a mixture of boiled grain, bran, meal, etc., fed warm to horses and cattle.
  4. crushed malt or meal of grain mixed with hot water to form wort.
  5. British Slang. mashed potatoes.

mash

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[ mash ]

noun

  1. a flirtation or infatuation.
  2. a person who seeks another's affection or who is the object of affection.

verb (used with object)

  1. to flirt with; court the affections of.

MASH

3

[ mash ]

noun

  1. mobile army surgical hospital.

MASH

1

/ æʃ /

acronym for

  1. Mobile Army Surgical Hospital
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

mash

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/ æʃ /

noun

  1. a soft pulpy mass or consistency
  2. agriculture a feed of bran, meal, or malt mixed with water and fed to horses, cattle, or poultry
  3. (esp in brewing) a mixture of mashed malt grains and hot water, from which malt is extracted
  4. informal.
    mashed potatoes
  5. dialect.
    a brew of tea
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

verb

  1. to beat or crush into a mash
  2. to steep (malt grains) in hot water in order to extract malt, esp for making malt liquors
  3. dialect.
    to brew (tea)
  4. archaic.
    to flirt with
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • mashed, adjective
  • ˈ, noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of mash1

First recorded before 1000; Middle English mash- and Old English ǣ-, noun used in compounds, as in Middle English mashfat and Old English ǣڲ “mash-vat,” and ǣɲ “mash wort”; cognate with German Maische

Origin of mash2

First recorded in 1870–75; originally theatrical argot; further origin uncertain; flirt ( def ), sweetheart, lover
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Word History and Origins

Origin of mash1

Old English ǣ- (in compound words); related to Middle Low German ŧ
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Steak, mashed potatoes and deserts for astronauts could soon be grown from individual cells in space if an experiment launched into orbit today is successful.

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Yes, Jack Nicklaus, Gary Player and Arnold Palmer tucked in a bib and tucked into the haggis, accompanied by neeps and tatties, cute Scottish names for turnips and potatoes, mashed and buttered.

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Consider crunch—because there’s nothing exciting about a plain bowl of mashed potatoes or ice cream.

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Thanksgiving, for all its excess, is not a particularly textural meal—pillowy mashed potatoes, velvety gravy, candied yams collapsing under their own syrup.

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It is mashed into masa and cooked into tortillas, tamales and tlacoyos.

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