masher

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Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈmæʃə(ɹ)/

Noun

masher (plural mashers)

1. One who, or that which, mashes.
2. (brewing) A machine for making mash.

Noun

masher (plural mashers)

1. (informal) A fashionable man in the late Victorian era.

   Synonyms: dandy, fop, Thesaurus:dandy

   • 1886, Punch, volume 91, page 249 ↗:

     For in this quality of “clubbable,” and the value now put upon it, lies the whole secret of change in our fast men, mashers, and men about town.

2. (North American) A man who makes often unwelcome advances to women, as in a subway.

Related terms

• mash
• mash note

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