mash note
noun
: a usually sentimental or effusive note or letter expressing affection for the recipient
Example Sentences
Her glowing review of his performance reads like a mash note from a lovesick fan.
Recent Examples on the Web If Jet Runway Café is owner Mike Linder’s love letter to aviation and YOT Bar & Kitchen is his mash note to the sea, then his newest restaurant, South PMP, is securely on terra firma. 
Phillip Valys, Sun Sentinel, 15 Sep. 2022 If Jet Runway Café is owner Mike Linder’s love letter to aviation and YOT Bar & Kitchen is his mash note to the sea, then his newest restaurant, South PMP, is securely on terra firma. Phillip Valys, Sun Sentinel, 2 Sep. 2022 If Jet Runway Café is owner Mike Linder’s love letter to aviation and YOT Bar & Kitchen is his mash note to the sea, then his newest restaurant, South PMP, is securely on terra firma. Phillip Valys, Sun Sentinel, 7 July 2022 In every turn of phrase, every admiring riff, there’s a subtle excoriation of the previous administration and an unsubtle mash note to the current one. Washington Post, 29 June 2021 Pratt, 41, posted an Instagram photo of Schwarzenegger, 31, cutting his toenails in the funniest mash note ever. Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 14 June 2021 Plus it’s a big mash note to Michelle Pfeiffer, who rarely gets a part like this these days and who dines upon it like a Porterhouse steak at the 21 Club. BostonGlobe.com, 31 Mar. 2021 Too much of the 16 hours, however, reads like individual profiles of and mash notes to country stars. Brian Lowry, CNN, 15 Sep. 2019 Rubbed with cumin and garlic and tanned on a charcoal grill, the bird is a little mash note to Lima, even more so in the company of yucca that has been fried so the outside is crisp and the center is fluffy. Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 21 Aug. 2019 See More
Phillip Valys, Sun Sentinel, 15 Sep. 2022 If Jet Runway Café is owner Mike Linder’s love letter to aviation and YOT Bar & Kitchen is his mash note to the sea, then his newest restaurant, South PMP, is securely on terra firma. Phillip Valys, Sun Sentinel, 2 Sep. 2022 If Jet Runway Café is owner Mike Linder’s love letter to aviation and YOT Bar & Kitchen is his mash note to the sea, then his newest restaurant, South PMP, is securely on terra firma. Phillip Valys, Sun Sentinel, 7 July 2022 In every turn of phrase, every admiring riff, there’s a subtle excoriation of the previous administration and an unsubtle mash note to the current one. Washington Post, 29 June 2021 Pratt, 41, posted an Instagram photo of Schwarzenegger, 31, cutting his toenails in the funniest mash note ever. Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 14 June 2021 Plus it’s a big mash note to Michelle Pfeiffer, who rarely gets a part like this these days and who dines upon it like a Porterhouse steak at the 21 Club. BostonGlobe.com, 31 Mar. 2021 Too much of the 16 hours, however, reads like individual profiles of and mash notes to country stars. Brian Lowry, CNN, 15 Sep. 2019 Rubbed with cumin and garlic and tanned on a charcoal grill, the bird is a little mash note to Lima, even more so in the company of yucca that has been fried so the outside is crisp and the center is fluffy. Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 21 Aug. 2019 See More Word History
First Known Use
1890, in the meaning defined above