Gratis ordbok - engelska svenska tyska lexikon

Definitioner

Substantiv

1. (obsolete) A mesh
2. (uncountable) A mass of mixed ingredients reduced to a soft pulpy state by beating or pressure; a mass of anything in a soft pulpy state.
3. (obsolete) an infatuation, a crush, a fancy
4. In brewing, ground or bruised malt, or meal of rye, wheat, corn, or other grain (or a mixture of malt and meal) steeped and stirred in hot water for making the wort.
5. (obsolete) a dandy, a masher
6. Mashed potatoes.
7. (obsolete) the object of one’s affections (either sex)
8. A mixture of meal or bran and water fed to animals.
9. (obsolete): A mess; trouble.

Verb

1. (transitive) To convert into a mash; to reduce to a soft pulpy state by beating or pressure; to bruise; to crush; as, to mash apples in a mill, or potatoes with a pestle. Specifically (Brewing), to convert, as malt, or malt and meal, into the mash which makes wort.
2. to flirt, to make eyes, to make romantic advances
3. (transitive) To press down hard (on).
4. (transitive, southern US, informal) to press.
5. (transitive, UK) To prepare a cup of tea (in a teapot), alternative to brew; used mainly in Northern England