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Mash   /mæʃ/   Listen
Mash

noun
1.
A mixture of mashed malt grains and hot water; used in brewing.
2.
Mixture of ground animal feeds.
verb
(past & past part. mashed; pres. part. mashing)
1.
To compress with violence, out of natural shape or condition.  Synonyms: crush, squash, squeeze, squelch.  "Squeeze a lemon"
2.
Talk or behave amorously, without serious intentions.  Synonyms: butterfly, chat up, coquet, coquette, dally, flirt, philander, romance.  "My husband never flirts with other women"
3.
Reduce to small pieces or particles by pounding or abrading.  Synonyms: bray, comminute, crunch, grind.  "Mash the garlic"



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"Mash" Quotes from Famous Books



... hundred-headed Asp Shall rive thy heart-strings: the Tartesian Lamprey, Prey on thy lungs: and those Tithrasian Gorgons Mangle and tear thy kidneys, mauling them, Entrails and all, into one bloody mash. I'll speed a running foot ...
— The Frogs • Aristophanes
... Tongue can't utter words to describe it; the pen hain't made, the egg hain't laid to hatch out the soarin' eagle whose feathers could be wrought into a pen fittin' to describe that seen. Why, I have thought when the mash got to burnin' down to the lake it wuz a grand sight; Jonesvillians have driv milds to see it. I have seen upwards of ten acres of the mash burnin' over at one time, and felt awestruck, and so did Sister Bobbett, for we went down together once with our pardners on a buckboard. ...
— Around the World with Josiah Allen's Wife • Marietta Holley
... then?" demanded Lightfoot, with a reminiscent smile. "Well, it was a ground-hog case with me—if I moved I'd freeze to death and if I knocked his paw out'n his mouth again he'd mash my face in with it—so I jest snuggled down against him, tucked my head under his chin, and went to sleep, holdin' that paw in ...
— Hidden Water • Dane Coolidge
... they put that honor upon a small fellow like me, and I tell them it was on account of scientific research that I had done, that I had developed a new way of making egg-nog. I feed the chickens the whiskey mash and they lay bourbon-flavored eggs, and all you have to do is drop one ...
— Northern Nut Growers Association Incorporated 39th Annual Report - at Norris, Tenn. September 13-15 1948 • Various
... I'm a living man," answered Mike, halting so suddenly as to jerk the lady backwards and mash the crown of ...
— Maggie Miller • Mary J. Holmes


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