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▪ I. masher1|ˈmæʃə(r)|
[f. mash v.1 + -er1.]
†1. One who mashes (malt) or mixes (wine). Obs.
a1500Chester Pl., Harrowing of Hell II. 82 With all mashers minglers of wyne in the nighte. a1603T. Cartwright Confut. Rhem. N.T. (1618) 449 The difference onely between these minglers and your mashers, is, that they put not so much water into the wine, that it ceased to be wine still. 1611Florio, Mescitore, a mesher, a mingler, a blender.
2. A machine, vessel, or instrument for mashing malt, fruit, vegetables, etc.
1878Ure's Dict. Arts IV, Masher..[for use in] a new system of preparing the mash for the distillation of potato spirit. 1889Barnard Noted Breweries II. 337 A spray of hot liquor issuing from the top of the masher. 1893K. A. Sanborn S. California 155 The ponderous rollers and keen knives of the masher mash the fruit.
▪ II. masher2 slang.|ˈmæʃə(r)|
A name applied to a fop of affected manners and exaggerated style of dress who frequented music-halls and fashionable promenades and who posed as a ‘lady-killer’.
The word was common in 1882 and for a few years after. It is said to have been introduced from the U.S.
1882Theatre Nov. 316 The ‘Masher’, that poor debilitated sickly creature of 1882. 1883Globe 16 May 1/5 Moths of fashion who have come to be generally known by the generic title of ‘mashers’. 1889Besant Bell of St. Paul's I. 7 The once brilliant masher of the music-hall.
b. attrib. passing into adj. Pertaining to or characteristic of a masher.
1884Girl's Own Paper Nov. 58/1 A very feeble looking blue, with tiny white dots, is called a ‘masher blue’; because it was affected by those weak boys for their waistcoats. 1890J. Hatton By Order of Czar (1891) 195, I hate those horrid comic..bragging masher songs. |