单词 | masher |
释义 | mashern.1 1. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > manufacture of alcoholic drink > brewing > [noun] > brewer > masher masher1591 mashman1889 1591 (?a1425) Harrowing of Hell (Huntington) in R. M. Lumiansky & D. Mill Chester Myst. Cycle (1974) I. 338 With all mashers, mengers of wyne, in the night. a1603 T. Cartwright Confut. Rhemists New Test. (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. 1611 J. Florio Queen Anna's New World of Words at Mescitore A mesher, a mingler, a blender. b. A vessel for mashing malt. ΚΠ 1877 E. R. Southby Brewing xvi. 109 With Steele's machines, or any of the automatic mashers, the first step is to..heat the tun to..mashing point. 1889 A. Barnard Noted Breweries II. 337 A spray of hot liquor issuing from the top of the masher. 1921 J. R. Mackenzie Brewing & Malting ii. vi. 74 The grist enters an aperture..and the water meets it by rushing in from the side of the masher. 1980 G. H. Palmer in C. Rainbow & G. E. S. Float Introd. Brewing Sci. & Technol. i. ii. 21 The malt grist is often mixed with the hot mashing liquor in a Steel's Masher. 2. A utensil or (occasionally) a machine for mashing fruit, vegetables, etc.potato, steak-masher, etc.: see the first element. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > equipment for food preparation > [noun] > masher or crusher potato-beetle1821 potato masher1835 masher1849 potato-smasher1858 sugar-crusher1870 1849 E. Christman Jrnl. 20 Nov. in One Man's Gold (1930) 51 The loaf sugar is broken into lumps, and instead of a masher you take a spoon to dissolve it. 1893 K. Sanborn Truthful Woman S. Calif. 155 The ponderous rollers and keen knives of the masher mash the fruit. 1909 L. M. Montgomery Anne of Avonlea xvii. 190 Anne dropped her masher and tasted the peas. 1990 Gus Home Shopping Catal. No. B726. 24/2 (caption) Kitchen tool set. Comprising of masher, perforated skimmer, fork and basting spoon. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022). mashern.2 slang (originally and chiefly U.S.). 1. Originally and chiefly U.S. A womanizer; a man who makes indecent sexual advances towards women, esp. in public places. ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > [noun] > sexual indulgence > womanizing or associating with loose women > one who horlinga1200 holourc1230 whore-mana1325 putourc1390 putroura1425 whoremastera1425 whoremonger?a1472 putyer1477 whoredomerc1485 holarda1500 whore-keeper1530 mutton-monger1532 smell-smock?1545 stallion1553 woman-louper1568 limb-lifter1579 Lusty Laurence1582 punker1582 wencher1593 womanist1608 belly-bumper1611 sheep-biter1611 stringer1613 fleshmongera1616 hunt-smock1624 whorer1624 womanizer1626 woman errant1628 mongera1637 linen-lifter1652 whorster1654 whorehopper1664 cousin1694 smocker1708 mutton-master1729 woman dangler1850 masher1872 chippy chaser1887 chaser1894 stud1895 molrower1896 skirt-chaser1942 1872 N.Y. World 2 Aug. 3/5 A man staying at the Ocean House insulted one of the lady guests of the hotel... The days for ‘mashers’..are over;..and respectable women can now enjoy themselves ‘with none to make them afraid’. 1881 H. McAlpin Messenger (Princeton Coll.: Hist. Class of 1881) 80 Billy Coursen is not exactly a ‘masher’, but he is very fond of ladies' society. 1904 New Haven Reg. 26 Oct. 3 ‘Mashers’ have become such a nuisance in State street that all the dry goods stores have entered into an alliance to prosecute and drive them off the street. 1931 Times Lit. Suppl. 18 June 480/3 The casual reader will be electrified to learn that among the duties of policewomen [in the U.S.] is that of ‘ensnaring mashers’. 1978 J. Irving World according to Garp xvii. 363 He was..the son of a woman who'd slashed a masher at a movie in Boston. 1993 N.Y. Times Mag. 28 Aug. 31/2 Tales of Packwood's exploits as a masher..had long been served up for the delectation of insiders. 2. A fashionable young man of the late Victorian or Edwardian era, esp. one fond of the company of women; a dandy. Now historical. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > fashionableness > [noun] > dandy popa1500 miniona1513 prick-me-daintya1529 puppy?1544 velvet-coat1549 skipjack1554 coxcomb1567 musk cat?1567 physbuttocke1570 Adonis?1571 Adon1590 foretop1597 musk-cod1600 pretty fellow1600 sparkc1600 spangle-baby1602 flash1605 barber-monger1608 cocoloch1610 dapperling1611 fantastica1613 feather-cock1612 trig1612 jack-a-dandy?1617 gimcrack1623 satinist1639 powder puffa1653 fop1676 prig1676 foplinga1681 cockcomb1684 beau garçona1687 shape1688 duke1699 nab1699 smirk1699 beau1700 petty master1706 moppet1707 Tom Astoner1707 dapper1709 petit maître1711 buck1725 toupee1727 toupet1728 toupet-man1748 jemmy1753 jessamy1753 macaroni1764 majoc1770 monkeyrony1773 dandyc1780 elegant1780 muscadin1794 incroyable1797 beauty man1800 bang-up1811 natty1818 ruffian1818 exquisite1819 heavy swell1819 marvellous1819 bit of stuff1828 merveilleux1830 fat1832 squirt1844 dandyling1846 ineffable1859 guinea pig1860 Dundreary swell1862 masher1872 dude1877 mash1879 dudette1883 dand1886 heavy gunner1890 posh1890 nut1904 smoothie1929 fancy-pants1930 saga boy1941 fancy Dan1943 1872 Indianapolis (Indiana) Evening Jrnl. 23 Dec. 2/3 Second-class swells who affect ballet girls are styled ‘mashers’. 1875 Funny Fatherland 56 The soldiers here are great ‘mashers’ among the dienst madchens. 1882 Illustr. London News 25 Nov. 535/3 The ‘Society masher’ is merely a good-looking and rather foppish ‘ladies' man’, somewhat of a ‘spoon’, and occasionally a ‘muff’. He is sweet, civil, not unamusing, and harmless. 1883 Globe 16 May 1/5 Moths of fashion who have come to be generally known by the generic title of ‘mashers’. 1889 W. Besant Bell St. Paul's I. 7 The once brilliant masher of the music-hall. 1949 Time 4 July 13/3 Los Angeles..has hordes of critics, and they damn it like Victorian belles stabbing a masher with hatpins. 1971 Sunday Austral. 8 Aug. 9/5 Brighton's West Pier, once the trysting place for Edwardian mashers and their ladyloves. Compounds General attributive. ΚΠ 1884 Girl'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. 1890 J. Hatton By Order of Czar (1891) 195 I hate those horrid comic..bragging masher songs. 1902 C. Morris Stage Confidences 171 Now and again..a man really falls in love with a woman whom he has seen only upon the stage; but no ‘masher’ proceedings are taken in such cases. 1960 C. W. Cunnington et al. Dict. Eng. Costume 134/1 Masher collar, 1880's and 1890's... A very high all-round stand collar, worn by ‘Mashers’. 1988 D. Vernon Tiller's Girls (BNC) 16 My good friends of masher persuasion are in seventh heaven when they have the opportunity of admiring eight pretty faces. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2000; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < |
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