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mash(1) (iou)



mash noun1. Also mask.

I.
Brewing. Malt mixed with hot water to form wort. OE.
A mixture of boiled grain, bran, etc., given as a warm food to animals. E16.
G. Lord She went to mix up some mash for the chooks. D. Tuke A supply of bran..as it is essential in the time of sickness, when a horse needs mashes.
Anything reduced to a soft pulpy consistency, by beating or crushing, by mixing with or steeping in water, etc. L16.
Smollett One of his great toes was crushed into a mash. W. Soyinka A pawpaw turned to red mash.
b. fig. A confused mixture; a muddle. Cf. MISHMASH. L16.
G. W. Thornbury His will is an extraordinary mash of grammar.
c. The state of being mashed or reduced to a soft mass. M17.
Dryden Buy me a sieve-full [of damsons] to preserve whole, and not in mash.
Mashed potatoes, esp. as served with sausages. colloq. E20.
M. Dickens The chap had bought him tea and bangers and mash.
II. [from MASH verb2 II.]
a. The action of MASH verb2; an infatuation, a crush. arch. slang. L19.
b. A person who is the object of infatuation. arch. slang. L19.
Comb.: mash note arch. slang a love letter; mash-roll, mash-staff an instrument used to stir the malt in a mash tub; mash-tub, -tun, -vat: in which malt is mashed.
? Not recorded before E16 exc. in comb.