Mash

/mæʃ/ · noun

Meaning

(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..

Definitions by Sense

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. (brewing) 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. (chiefly UK) Mashed potatoes.
4. A mixture of meal or bran and water fed to animals.
5. (obsolete) A mess; trouble.
6. (transitive) To convert into a mash; to reduce to a soft pulpy state by beating or pressure
7. (transitive) In brewing, to convert (for example malt, or malt and meal) into the mash which makes wort, by mixing it with hot water.
8. (transitive, UK, chiefly Northern England, Lancashire, Yorkshire) To prepare a cup of tea in a teapot; to brew (tea).

Example Sentences

For your vows and oaths, Or I doubt mainly, I shall be i' the mash " too

We had fun mashing apples in a mill.

The potatoes need to be mashed.

He took the kettle off the fire and mashed the tea.

to mash on a bicycle pedal

“What's the yarn about your mashing a Miss Haverley up there? Not serious, I hope?”

This mash works but I don't know about yours […] Better hope your mash don't jam, bare ping ping like a BB […] I see a boy run with his mash, I see a boy run with his jooka […] Don't talk about mashes, we've lost about ten I know about cookers

Rise that heater, tap that mash They don't come outside their flats Decamp, decamp, aim this toolie at your hat They piss us off on Snap, so we rise up and load them straps

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• mashing
• mashed

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