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mash

/mæʃ/ noun

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noun Definition from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA). Pronunciation from Wiktionary, via Kaikki.org. More about mash at Wordnik → Where our words come from →

  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.

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.
  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).

verb

  1. To flirt, to make eyes, to make romantic advances.

noun

  1. An infatuation, a crush, a fancy.
  2. A dandy, a masher.
  3. The object of one’s affections .

Origin

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.

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