Meaning

10 senses

  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.

    Brei, Mus

    пюре́pjurɛ́

  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.

    Maische

    a mixture of mashed malt grains and hot water; used in brewing

  3. (UK, countable, uncountable)Mashed potatoes.

  4. (countable, uncountable)A mixture of meal or bran and water fed to animals.

    Futterbrei

  5. (Multicultural London English, countable, slang)A gun.

  6. (countable, obsolete, uncountable)A mess; trouble.

  7. (obsolete)A mesh.

  8. (obsolete)An infatuation, a crush, a fancy.

  9. (obsolete)A dandy, a masher.

  10. (obsolete)The object of one’s affections (regardless of sex).

Examples

91 sentences

  1. Would you pass the mashed potatoes, please?

    Ви не могли би передати картопляне пюре, будь ласка? — deniko

    ruВы не могли бы передать мне картофельное пюре, пожалуйста? — odexed

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  2. We have a lot of mashed potatoes.

    У нас багато картопляного пюре. — deniko

    ruУ нас много картофельного пюре. — marafon

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  3. Tom put some mashed potatoes on his plate.

    Том поклав собі на тарілку картопляне пюре. — lingvokrolik

    ruТом положил себе на тарелку картофельного пюре. — marafon

    deTom lud sich Kartoffelbrei auf seinen Teller. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

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  4. Would you like more mashed potatoes?

    Бажаєте ще картопляного пюре? — lingvokrolik

    deHättest du gerne mehr Kartoffelbrei? — Yorwba

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  5. I like mashed potatoes.

    Я люблю картопляне пюре. — deniko

    ruЯ люблю пюре. — Balamax

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Translations

5 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
a mass of mixed ingredients:
Deutsch
By meaning 3
a mass of mixed ingredients:
in brewing:
a mixture of meal or bran and water fed to animals:

Origin

From Middle English mash, from Old English mǣsċ, māsċ, māx, from Proto-Germanic *maiskaz,

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.

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:

Mostly clipping of machine gun, but also for imitative reasons, compare the gun-names mop and broom; intentionally chosen around 2000 due to its homonymy and obscurity for legal reasons.

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Forms

plural: mashes
Singularmash
Pluralmashes

regular

Synonyms

5 synonyms
firearmB2gunA2ironB1pieceA1gat

Word family

9 related words
Derivedinstant mashmash beanmash-fatmash tunmonster mashsour mashbutton mashmash notemasher

Lessons for this word

1 lessons

Collocations

4 patterns
  • mashed potatoes
  • like mashed potatoes
  • the mashed potatoes
  • like mashed

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
mascotmasculinemasculinitymashermaskB2masochist
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