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

²

[ 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

/ mæʃ /

acronym for

1. Mobile Army Surgical Hospital

mash

²

/ mæʃ /

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

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

Derived Forms

• mashed, adjective
• ˈmasher, noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of mash¹

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

Origin of mash²

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of mash¹

Old English mǣsc- (in compound words); related to Middle Low German mēsch

Example Sentences

It is pressed deep inside, then more is fetched to mash on top.

From The Daily Beast

Orson Welles (1965) His Chimes at Midnight was a mash-up of the Shakespeare plays in which Sir John Falstaff appears.

From The Daily Beast

Because this is my book,” Kibbe writes, he decided to “mash up” the conversations into an “imaginary gab fest.

From The Daily Beast

It is made, as the label narrates “with traditional mash hopping and without wort boiling.”

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First, it must come from a mash bill that contains at least 51 percent corn.

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The red cow ha' calved, an' no one here to see 'un, an' mother had to carry her a hot mash hersel'.

From Project Gutenberg

Then throw away the bees and lay the stings gently but firmly on a mash composed of the breasts of five Buff Orpington cockerels.

From Project Gutenberg

Why, if it wasn't for the fact that I'm feeling particularly happy to-night, I'd mash your mouth for that.

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Horses that ought to be having a mash between their ribs make riders despond.

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"Yes, and I'd like to know how you come to mash my mouth so dod-rottedly," said Sneak, in well-affected ill nature.

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Related Words

• chew
• crush
• grind
• scrunch
• squeeze
• squish