Crossword clues for masher
masher
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Masher \Mash"er\, n.
One who, or that which, mashes; also (Brewing), a machine for making mash.
A charmer of women. [Slang]
--London Punch.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"thing that mashes," c.1500, agent noun from mash (v.). Meaning "would-be lady-killer" is from 1875, American English, perhaps in use from 1860, probably from mash (v.) on notion either of "pressing one's attentions," or of "crushing someone else's emotions" (compare crush).\n\nHe was, to use a Western expression, a 'regular heart-smasher among the women; and it may not be improper to state, just here, that no one had a more exalted opinion of his capabilities in that line than the aforesaid 'Jo' himself. ["Harper's New Monthly Magazine," March 1861]\n
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\nHe had a weakness to be considered a regular masher of female hearts and a very wicked young man with the fair sex generally, but there was not a well-authenticated instance of his ever having broken a heart in his life, nor likely to be one.
[Gilbert A. Pierce, "Zachariah, The Congressman," Chicago, 1880]
\nAlso in use late 19c were mash (n.) "a romantic fixation, crush" (1884); mash (v.) "excite sentimental admiration" (1882); mash-note "love letter" (1890).Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. 1 One who, or that which, mashes. 2 (context brewing English) A machine for making mash. Etymology 2
n. 1 a man who makes often unwelcome advances to women 2 a fashionable man, a dandy, a fop 3 (context rare English) A man who molests women, as in a subway.
WordNet
n. a man who is aggressive in making amorous advances to women [syn: wolf, woman chaser, skirt chaser]
a kitchen utensil used for mashing (e.g. potatoes)
Wikipedia
The term masher may refer to one of the following:
- A cooking utensil (i.e. Potato masher)
- A term for a male sexual molester
- A term for a dandy
- A computer device used to create a Compact Disc (i.e. Disk Masher System)
- A Model 24 grenade
Usage examples of "masher".
Her father had been what she described as a bit of a masher, one of the men-about-town.
He was bred from Champion Bundle, and his mother was out of The Masher, No.
She arrived out of breath from the kitchen, the potato masher in her hand.
The jazz joints were closed, the cops in the subways slipped their pennies into the candy machines and received their coated peanuts for the long beat, up and down the platform, looking for mashers, smokers.
To quirl the yolks run them through the sieve of a patent potato masher.
Karl nods to Willy, who squats to examine some wire potato mashers, plugging her way with his bulk.
If she had practiced all her life squashing mashers on New York streets, she couldn't have done it better.
He’d taken potato mashers from the Afrika Korps and Schmeissers from the SS, rocket launchers from the Hitler Youth and pocket knives from the Volksturm.
I listened and decided which wall it was coming from, and then I picked up an old wooden potato masher that was lying around and went rat-tat-tat on the wall myself After that there was no more knocking.
The axle formed the main body of the vessel and was shaped like an old-fashioned potato masher, with a handle projecting from one end of a thicker cylinder.
The potato masher slipped out of her fingers and hit the counter with a metallic ring.
The potato masher grenade was one German weapon he hadn't been taught to dismantle, but it was easy enough with American grenades.
Every man was festooned with weapons: big steel knives, tomahawks, war clubs that looked like giant potato mashers, round shields of painted hide slung at the cruppers of their simple pad saddles.
Tonight Heaven walked slowly around the barn, looking at the long tables covered with items like antique potato mashers and embroidered kitchen towels that had the days of the week and the appropriate chore for each day depicted in cross stitch.