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mash
1[ mash ]
verb (used with object)
- to crush:
He mashed his thumb with a hammer.
- to reduce to a soft, pulpy mass, as by beating or pressure, especially in the preparation of food.
- to mix (crushed malt or meal of grain) with hot water to form wort.
noun
- a soft, pulpy mass.
- a pulpy condition.
- a mixture of boiled grain, bran, meal, etc., fed warm to horses and cattle.
- crushed malt or meal of grain mixed with hot water to form wort.
- British Slang. mashed potatoes.
mash
2[ mash ]
noun
- a flirtation or infatuation.
- a person who seeks another's affection or who is the object of affection.
verb (used with object)
- to flirt with; court the affections of.
MASH
3[ mash ]
noun
- mobile army surgical hospital.
MASH
1/ æʃ /
acronym for
- Mobile Army Surgical Hospital
mash
2/ æʃ /
noun
- a soft pulpy mass or consistency
- agriculture a feed of bran, meal, or malt mixed with water and fed to horses, cattle, or poultry
- (esp in brewing) a mixture of mashed malt grains and hot water, from which malt is extracted
- informal.mashed potatoes
- dialect.a brew of tea
verb
- to beat or crush into a mash
- to steep (malt grains) in hot water in order to extract malt, esp for making malt liquors
- dialect.to brew (tea)
- archaic.to flirt with
Derived Forms
- mashed, adjective
- ˈ, noun
Word History and Origins
Origin of mash1
Origin of mash2
Word History and Origins
Origin of mash1
Example Sentences
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.
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.
Consider crunch—because there’s nothing exciting about a plain bowl of mashed potatoes or ice cream.
Thanksgiving, for all its excess, is not a particularly textural meal—pillowy mashed potatoes, velvety gravy, candied yams collapsing under their own syrup.
It is mashed into masa and cooked into tortillas, tamales and tlacoyos.
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