Masher Definition

măshər
mashers
noun
mashers
A kitchen utensil for mashing vegetables or fruit.
American Heritage
One that mashes.
Webster's New World
A man who habitually makes aggressive, unwelcome sexual advances to women.
American Heritage

A fashionable man, a dandy, a fop.

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Noun

Singular:
masher
Plural:
mashers

Origin of Masher

  • 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 +"Ž -er. Leland writes of the etymology:

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  • mash +"Ž -er

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