mash

Meaning

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. (obsolete) A mess; trouble.

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.
3. To press down hard (on).
4. (informal) To press.
5. To prepare a cup of tea in a teapot; to brew (tea).
6. To act violently.
7. (informal) To press (a button) rapidly and repeatedly.

Verb

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

Synonyms

crush

pulp

squash

grind

rub

squeeze

file

chafe

knead

squelch

crunch

mix

puree

smash

bruise

pound

💷

press

blend

pulverize

bray

crumple

jumble

comminute

wheat bran

medley

break up

mill

swill

dough

trample

press down

munch

mush

butterfly

🦋

romance

feed

ferment

coquet

flatten

overwhelm

paste

flirt

😘

compress

coquette

champ

dally

philander

soften

hash

#️⃣

pulverise

stamp

chat up

run over

scratch

shipwreck

shuffle

step on

stifle

stir

stir up

strain

tousle

unman

yeast

zyme

alligate

force down

malt extract

wort

lose a fortune

beerwort

crack

massage

💆

bruise badly

anything mashed

batter up

mash-hammer

cereal mash

mashpotatoe

admix

scrape to soften

admixture

aggregate

beetle

🪲

braise

break

brew

chop

clobber

commingle

compound

confound

crumble

dash

💨

deface

destroy

dismay

draff

emulsion

farrago

fodder

forage

gall

hit

hotpot

intermix

intermixture

jam

knock down

lure

macerate

mangle

melange

mingle

mixes

mixture

muss

must

overbear

overcooked

overripe

pastry

pasture

poultice

puddle

purée

push

push down

riffle

rot

ruffle

rumple

Pronounced as (IPA)

/mæʃ/

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.