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mash

Pronunciation: /mæʃ/

The English word “mash” has 18 meanings listed here.

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. A mess; trouble.
  6. A mesh.
  7. An infatuation, a crush, a fancy.
  8. A dandy, a masher.
  9. The object of one’s affections (regardless of sex).
  10. A gun.

verb

  1. To convert into a mash; to reduce to a soft pulpy state by beating or pressure
  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).
  4. To press down hard (on).
  5. To press.
  6. To act violently.
  7. To press (a button) rapidly and repeatedly.
  8. To flirt, to make eyes, to make romantic advances.

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.

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