Mash Definition

măsh
mashed, mashes, mashing
noun
mashes
A fermentable starchy mixture from which alcohol or spirits can be distilled.
American Heritage
Crushed or ground malt or meal soaked in hot water for making wort, used in brewing beer.
Webster's New World
A mixture of bran, meal, etc. in warm water, for feeding horses, cattle, etc.
Webster's New World
Any soft mixture or mass.
Webster's New World
Mashed potatoes.
Webster's New World
verb
mashed, mashes, mashing
To mix (crushed malt, etc.) in hot water for making wort.
Webster's New World
To change into a soft or uniform mass by beating, crushing, etc.
Webster's New World
To crush and injure or damage.
Webster's New World
To apply pressure to; press.
American Heritage
To make sexual advances to; flirt with.
Webster's New World
abbreviation
Mobile army surgical hospital.
Webster's New World
Mobile Army Surgical Hospital.
Wiktionary

Origin of Mash

  • From Middle English mash, mash-, from Old English mÇ£sc-, māsc-, māx-, from Proto-Germanic *maiskaz, *maiskō (“mixture, mash"), from Proto-Indo-European *meiǵ-, *meiḱ- (“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.

    From Wiktionary

  • Either by analogy with mash (“to press, to soften"), or more likely from Romani masha (“a fascinator, an enticer"), mashdva (“fascination, enticement"). Originally used in theater, and recorded in US in 1870s. Either originally used as mash, or a backformation from masher, from masha. Leland writes of the etymology:

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English mash- (as in mashfat mash tub) from Old English māsc, *mǣsc, māx- (in māxwyrt wort) meik- in Indo-European roots V., sense 4, perhaps from Romani mash to entice

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • See mesh

    From Wiktionary

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