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mashed, ppl. a. (and n.)|mæʃt| [f. mash v.1 + -ed1.] 1. Beaten or crushed to a mash.
1635Voy. Foxe & James to N.W. (Hakl. Soc.) II. 281 Wee had great store of masht Ice. 1693Dryden Juvenal iii. (1697) 65 Nor Limbs, nor Bones, nor Carcass wou'd remain: But a mash'd heap, a Hotchpotch of the Slain. 1727Gay Fables i. xxxvii. 126 Her mash'd eggs bestrow'd the way. 1747H. Glasse Cookery ix. 99 Mashed Potatoes. 1841Thackeray Men & Pictures Wks. 1900 XIII. 328 The cool clear shadows are mashed-down masses of sienna and indigo. 1844J. T. J. Hewlett Parsons & W. ii, Bacon and a few mashed turnips. 1856Kane Arct. Expl. I. xxiii. 289 [We] set forward over the worst sort of mashed ice. b. Hence as n., mashed potatoes (esp. in the phr. sausage and mashed). slang.
1923in J. Manchon Le Slang. 1926G. B. Shaw Translations & Tomfooleries 225 One [sc. a public-house] had a placard up ‘Sausage and Mashed’. 1934T. S. Eliot Rock i. 40 Restaurants where you can get..sausage and mashed or toad-in-the-'ole for twopence. 1963H. Garner in R. Weaver Canad. Short Stories (1968) 2nd Ser. 52, I ate a lunch of meat pie, mashed and gravy. 2. Brewing. Of ‘liquor’: Treated with mash.
1839Ure Dict. Arts 99 The mashed liquor is let off into a large back.
Add:3. Special Combs. mashed potato(es), (a) boiled peeled potatoes, mashed usu. with the addition of butter and milk or cream, and served as an accompaniment; (b) (in form Mashed Potato) a popular dance of the early 1960s, originating in the U.S.
1747H. Glasse Art of Cookery ix. 199 Mashed Potatoes... Boil your potatoes, peel them, and..mash them well; to two pounds of potatoes put a pint of milk, a little salt.., a quarter of a pound of butter, stir it in, and serve it up. 1824M. Randolph Virginia House-Wife 120 Potato Balls. Mix mashed potatoes with the yelk of an egg, roll them into balls. 1960Sheldon & Brianhert (song-title) Mashed potato time. 1963Punch 6 Mar. 347/1 The Mashed Potato..remains as much of a mystery as the Hully-Gully and the Loco-Motion. 1989Independent 9 Dec. 32/8 The Sixties, the Silver Age of Dance Crazes where would-be teen queens in America entered competitions to display their prowess at bizarre refinements of the Frug, Watusi or Mashed Potato. 1994Guardian 15 Oct. (Weekend Suppl.) 49/4 My ribeye of beef with mashed potato, shallots cooked in duck fat and a red wine sauce. |