"masher" meaning in English

See masher in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /ˈmæʃə(ɹ)/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-masher.wav [Southern-England] Forms: mashers [plural]
Rhymes: -æʃə(ɹ) Etymology: mash + -er Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|mash|er}} mash + -er Head templates: {{en-noun}} masher (plural mashers)
  1. One who, or that which, mashes. Categories (topical): Male people
    Sense id: en-masher-en-noun-BGsnfOLq Disambiguation of Male people: 17 34 30 19
  2. (brewing) A machine for making mash. Categories (topical): Brewing, Machines, Male people
    Sense id: en-masher-en-noun-oRqBBnYD Disambiguation of Machines: 12 73 5 10 Disambiguation of Male people: 17 34 30 19 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -er Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 18 35 24 22 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -er: 16 39 15 30 Topics: beverages, brewing, business, food, lifestyle, manufacturing
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: button masher, molar masher, potato masher
Etymology number: 1

Noun

IPA: /ˈmæʃə(ɹ)/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-masher.wav [Southern-England] Forms: mashers [plural]
Rhymes: -æʃə(ɹ) Etymology: Either by analogy with masher (“one who presses, softens”), or more likely from Romani masha (“a fascinator, an enticer”), mashdva (“fascination, enticement”). Originally used in theater, and recorded in US in 1870s. Either originally borrowed as masher, from masha, or from mash + -er. Etymology templates: {{m|en||masher|one who presses, softens}} masher (“one who presses, softens”), {{bor|en|rom|masha||a fascinator, an enticer}} Romani masha (“a fascinator, an enticer”), {{m|rom|mashdva||fascination, enticement}} mashdva (“fascination, enticement”), {{m|rom|masha}} masha, {{suffix|en|mash|er}} mash + -er Head templates: {{en-noun}} masher (plural mashers)
  1. (informal, dated) A fashionable man. Tags: dated, informal Categories (topical): Male people Synonyms: dandy, fop, dandy
    Sense id: en-masher-en-noun-8LzvGwxB Disambiguation of Male people: 17 34 30 19
  2. (Australia, Canada, US, dated) A man who makes often unwelcome advances to women, as in a subway. Tags: Australia, Canada, US, dated Categories (topical): Male people
    Sense id: en-masher-en-noun--9rot~sm Disambiguation of Male people: 17 34 30 19 Categories (other): American English, Australian English, Canadian English
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: mash, masherdom, mash note
Etymology number: 2

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for masher meaning in English (6.8kB)

{
  "derived": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "button masher"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "molar masher"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "potato masher"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_number": 1,
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "mash",
        "3": "er"
      },
      "expansion": "mash + -er",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "mash + -er",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "mashers",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "masher (plural mashers)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "17 34 30 19",
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Male people",
          "orig": "en:Male people",
          "parents": [
            "Male",
            "People",
            "Gender",
            "Human",
            "Biology",
            "Psychology",
            "Sociology",
            "All topics",
            "Sciences",
            "Social sciences",
            "Fundamental",
            "Society"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "One who, or that which, mashes."
      ],
      "id": "en-masher-en-noun-BGsnfOLq",
      "links": [
        [
          "mash",
          "mash"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Brewing",
          "orig": "en:Brewing",
          "parents": [
            "Alcohol production",
            "Alcoholic beverages",
            "Beverages",
            "Recreational drugs",
            "Drinking",
            "Food and drink",
            "Liquids",
            "Drugs",
            "Human behaviour",
            "All topics",
            "Matter",
            "Pharmacology",
            "Human",
            "Fundamental",
            "Chemistry",
            "Nature",
            "Biochemistry",
            "Medicine",
            "Sciences",
            "Biology"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "18 35 24 22",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "16 39 15 30",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms suffixed with -er",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "12 73 5 10",
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Machines",
          "orig": "en:Machines",
          "parents": [
            "Technology",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "17 34 30 19",
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Male people",
          "orig": "en:Male people",
          "parents": [
            "Male",
            "People",
            "Gender",
            "Human",
            "Biology",
            "Psychology",
            "Sociology",
            "All topics",
            "Sciences",
            "Social sciences",
            "Fundamental",
            "Society"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A machine for making mash."
      ],
      "id": "en-masher-en-noun-oRqBBnYD",
      "links": [
        [
          "brewing",
          "brewing#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "mash",
          "mash"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(brewing) A machine for making mash."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "beverages",
        "brewing",
        "business",
        "food",
        "lifestyle",
        "manufacturing"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈmæʃə(ɹ)/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-æʃə(ɹ)"
    },
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-masher.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/e/e5/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-masher.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-masher.wav.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/e/e5/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-masher.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-masher.wav.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Southern-England"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (Southern England)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "masher"
}

{
  "etymology_number": 2,
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "",
        "3": "masher",
        "4": "one who presses, softens"
      },
      "expansion": "masher (“one who presses, softens”)",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "rom",
        "3": "masha",
        "4": "",
        "5": "a fascinator, an enticer"
      },
      "expansion": "Romani masha (“a fascinator, an enticer”)",
      "name": "bor"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "rom",
        "2": "mashdva",
        "3": "",
        "4": "fascination, enticement"
      },
      "expansion": "mashdva (“fascination, enticement”)",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "rom",
        "2": "masha"
      },
      "expansion": "masha",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "mash",
        "3": "er"
      },
      "expansion": "mash + -er",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Either by analogy with masher (“one who presses, softens”), or more likely from Romani masha (“a fascinator, an enticer”), mashdva (“fascination, enticement”). Originally used in theater, and recorded in US in 1870s.\nEither originally borrowed as masher, from masha, or from mash + -er.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "mashers",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "masher (plural mashers)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "mash"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "masherdom"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "mash note"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "17 34 30 19",
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Male people",
          "orig": "en:Male people",
          "parents": [
            "Male",
            "People",
            "Gender",
            "Human",
            "Biology",
            "Psychology",
            "Sociology",
            "All topics",
            "Sciences",
            "Social sciences",
            "Fundamental",
            "Society"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1886, Punch, volume 91, page 249",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A fashionable man."
      ],
      "id": "en-masher-en-noun-8LzvGwxB",
      "links": [
        [
          "fashionable",
          "fashionable"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(informal, dated) A fashionable man."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "dandy"
        },
        {
          "word": "fop"
        },
        {
          "word": "dandy"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "dated",
        "informal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "American English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Australian English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Canadian English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "17 34 30 19",
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Male people",
          "orig": "en:Male people",
          "parents": [
            "Male",
            "People",
            "Gender",
            "Human",
            "Biology",
            "Psychology",
            "Sociology",
            "All topics",
            "Sciences",
            "Social sciences",
            "Fundamental",
            "Society"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "c. 1900, O. Henry, The Ferry of Unfulfilment",
          "text": "\"Oh, gee!\" remarked the Girl from Sieber-Mason's, glancing up with the most capable coolness. \"Ain't there any way to ever get rid of you mashers? I've tried everything from eating onions to using hatpins. Be on your way, Freddie.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A man who makes often unwelcome advances to women, as in a subway."
      ],
      "id": "en-masher-en-noun--9rot~sm",
      "links": [
        [
          "Canada",
          "Canada"
        ],
        [
          "US",
          "American English"
        ],
        [
          "subway",
          "subway"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Australia, Canada, US, dated) A man who makes often unwelcome advances to women, as in a subway."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Australia",
        "Canada",
        "US",
        "dated"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈmæʃə(ɹ)/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-æʃə(ɹ)"
    },
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-masher.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/e/e5/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-masher.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-masher.wav.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/e/e5/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-masher.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-masher.wav.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Southern-England"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (Southern England)"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "Charles Godfrey Leland",
    "Michael Quinion"
  ],
  "word": "masher"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "English 2-syllable words",
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English terms borrowed from Romani",
    "English terms derived from Romani",
    "English terms suffixed with -er",
    "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "English terms with audio links",
    "Rhymes:English/æʃə(ɹ)",
    "Rhymes:English/æʃə(ɹ)/2 syllables",
    "en:Machines",
    "en:Male people"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "button masher"
    },
    {
      "word": "molar masher"
    },
    {
      "word": "potato masher"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_number": 1,
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "mash",
        "3": "er"
      },
      "expansion": "mash + -er",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "mash + -er",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "mashers",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "masher (plural mashers)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "One who, or that which, mashes."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "mash",
          "mash"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "en:Brewing"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A machine for making mash."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "brewing",
          "brewing#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "mash",
          "mash"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(brewing) A machine for making mash."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "beverages",
        "brewing",
        "business",
        "food",
        "lifestyle",
        "manufacturing"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈmæʃə(ɹ)/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-æʃə(ɹ)"
    },
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-masher.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/e/e5/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-masher.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-masher.wav.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/e/e5/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-masher.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-masher.wav.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Southern-England"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (Southern England)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "masher"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English 2-syllable words",
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English terms borrowed from Romani",
    "English terms derived from Romani",
    "English terms suffixed with -er",
    "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "English terms with audio links",
    "Rhymes:English/æʃə(ɹ)",
    "Rhymes:English/æʃə(ɹ)/2 syllables",
    "en:Machines",
    "en:Male people"
  ],
  "etymology_number": 2,
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "",
        "3": "masher",
        "4": "one who presses, softens"
      },
      "expansion": "masher (“one who presses, softens”)",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "rom",
        "3": "masha",
        "4": "",
        "5": "a fascinator, an enticer"
      },
      "expansion": "Romani masha (“a fascinator, an enticer”)",
      "name": "bor"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "rom",
        "2": "mashdva",
        "3": "",
        "4": "fascination, enticement"
      },
      "expansion": "mashdva (“fascination, enticement”)",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "rom",
        "2": "masha"
      },
      "expansion": "masha",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "mash",
        "3": "er"
      },
      "expansion": "mash + -er",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Either by analogy with masher (“one who presses, softens”), or more likely from Romani masha (“a fascinator, an enticer”), mashdva (“fascination, enticement”). Originally used in theater, and recorded in US in 1870s.\nEither originally borrowed as masher, from masha, or from mash + -er.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "mashers",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "masher (plural mashers)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "mash"
    },
    {
      "word": "masherdom"
    },
    {
      "word": "mash note"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English dated terms",
        "English informal terms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1886, Punch, volume 91, page 249",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A fashionable man."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "fashionable",
          "fashionable"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(informal, dated) A fashionable man."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "dandy"
        },
        {
          "word": "fop"
        },
        {
          "word": "dandy"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "dated",
        "informal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "American English",
        "Australian English",
        "Canadian English",
        "English dated terms",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "c. 1900, O. Henry, The Ferry of Unfulfilment",
          "text": "\"Oh, gee!\" remarked the Girl from Sieber-Mason's, glancing up with the most capable coolness. \"Ain't there any way to ever get rid of you mashers? I've tried everything from eating onions to using hatpins. Be on your way, Freddie.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A man who makes often unwelcome advances to women, as in a subway."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Canada",
          "Canada"
        ],
        [
          "US",
          "American English"
        ],
        [
          "subway",
          "subway"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Australia, Canada, US, dated) A man who makes often unwelcome advances to women, as in a subway."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Australia",
        "Canada",
        "US",
        "dated"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈmæʃə(ɹ)/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-æʃə(ɹ)"
    },
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-masher.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/e/e5/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-masher.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-masher.wav.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/e/e5/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-masher.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-masher.wav.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Southern-England"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (Southern England)"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "Charles Godfrey Leland",
    "Michael Quinion"
  ],
  "word": "masher"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-04-30 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (210104c and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.