mash

Meaning

Noun

1. (uncountable) 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. (countable, uncountable) 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. (UK, countable, uncountable) Mashed potatoes.
4. (countable, uncountable) A mixture of meal or bran and water fed to animals.
5. (countable, obsolete, uncountable) A mess; trouble.

Verb

1. (transitive) To convert into a mash; to reduce to a soft pulpy state by beating or pressure
2. (transitive) In brewing, to convert (for example malt, or malt and meal) into the mash which makes wort, by mixing it with hot water.
3. (Northern-England, UK, Yorkshire, transitive) To prepare a cup of tea in a teapot; to brew (tea).
4. (ambitransitive) To press down hard (on).
5. (Southern-US, informal, transitive) To press.
6. (archaic, intransitive) To act violently.
7. (informal, transitive) 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

smash

pound

💷

bruise

press

puree

mix

bray

crumple

blend

comminute

pulverize

wheat bran

jumble

chat up

dally

stamp

butterfly

🦋

soften

champ

coquette

swill

coquet

press down

pulverise

compress

flirt

😘

flatten

ferment

feed

mush

break up

overwhelm

paste

mill

hash

#️⃣

dough

medley

munch

philander

Translations

écraser

pulpe

schiacciare

résidu d’huile

broyer

purée

majar

aplastar

machacar

Maische

zermahlen

zerquetschen

Püree

pestare

Brei

Pronounced as (IPA)

/mæʃ/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: mash

Inherited from Old English: mæsc

Cognate with German: Meisch

Cognate with Swedish: mäsk

Cognate with Old English: miscian

Inherited from Middle English: mashen

Inherited from Old English: *māsċan

Cognate with German: maischen

Cognate with Middle Low German: meskewert

In summary

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.