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   mash

   /maʃ/

   verb

   • 1. reduce (food or other substance) to a soft mass by crushing it: "mash the beans to a paste"
   • ▪ crush or smash (something) to a pulp: "he almost had his head mashed by a slamming door"
   • ▪ press forcefully on (something): informal US, West Indian "the worst thing you can do is mash the brake pedal"
   • 2. (in brewing) mix (powdered malt) with hot water to form wort: "the barley is dried out over peat fires and mashed with water which flows through peat ground"
   • 3. (with reference to tea) brew or infuse: Northern English "I've just mashed a pot of tea"

   noun

   • 1. a soft mass made by crushing a substance into a pulp, sometimes with the addition of liquid: "pound the garlic to a mash"
   • ▪ mashed potato: "for supper there was sausages and mash"
   • ▪ bran mixed with hot water, given as a warm food to horses and other animals: "a bucket of mash"
   • ▪ (in brewing) a mixture of powdered malt and hot water, which is left to stand until the sugars dissolve to form the wort: "the brewer now transfers the mash to a mash tun"

   Word Origin Old Englishmāsc (as a brewing term), of West Germanic origin; perhaps ultimately related to mix.

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   What does mash mean?

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   What does Masher mean?

   • Either originally used as mash, or a backformation from masher, from masha. Leland writes of the etymology: It was introduced by the well-known gypsy family of actors, C., among whom Romany was habitually spoken. The word “masher” or “mash” means in that tongue to allure, delude, or entice.

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   Is mash a German word?

   • 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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   What does mashed thumb mean?

   • He mashed his thumb with a hammer. to reduce to a soft, pulpy mass, as by beating or pressure, especially in the preparation of food. to mix (crushed malt or meal of grain) with hot water to form wort. a soft, pulpy mass. a pulpy condition. a mixture of boiled grain, bran, meal, etc., fed warm to horses and cattle.

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   verb (used with object) to crush: He mashed his thumb with a hammer. to reduce to a soft, pulpy mass, as by beating or pressure, especially in the preparation of food. to mix (crushed malt or meal of grain) with hot water to form wort.

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   When you mash something, you crush it. You might, for example, mash a marshmallow by stepping on it. Recipes for banana bread almost always include an instruction to mash some bananas — in other words, you need to squish and press on them until they no longer look like bananas.

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