Mash

Quick meaning: Mash is a 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.

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.

More Meanings

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

Example Sentences

to mash on a bicycle pedal

The potatoes need to be mashed.

We had fun mashing apples in a mill.

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

Word Forms

• mashes
• mashing
• mashed

Synonyms for mash

Depending on context, synonyms include pomate, firearm, gat, gun, iron, piece.

Related Words

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