单词 | to beat to mash |
释义 | > as lemmasto beat (also boil, etc.) to mash b. (Without article.) The state of being mashed or reduced to a soft pulp. Chiefly in to beat (also boil, etc.) to mash. Also in extended use. †in mash: as a mash (obsolete). ΘΚΠ the world > matter > constitution of matter > softness > types of softness > [noun] > pulpiness or mushiness carnosity1533 mash1630 pulp1801 pulpiness1818 mushiness1868 1630 H. Lord Display Two Forraigne Sects 88 Some [of the earth's inhabitants] blowne from the tops of high mountains, other bruised to mash. 1663 Ballad of Robin Hood & Tanner xxi, in F. J. Child Eng. & Sc. Pop. Ballads (1888) III. v. 138/2 For here we may thresh our bones into mesh, And get no coyn at all. 1691 J. Wilson Belphegor iii. iv She 'as beaten me to mash. 1693 J. Dryden Let. 30 Aug. in Wks. (1893) XVIII. 111 Buy me a sieve-full [of damsons] to preserve whole, and not in mash. 1750 Lady Luxborough Let. 5 Sept. in Lett. to W. Shenstone (1775) 223 The paper is boiled to mash. 1858 J. Rayson Misc. Poems & Ballads (1858) 34 But we've a gipsy creature here, In vice will bang them aw to mash. 1973 W. Soyinka Season of Anomy i. 13 A pawpaw turned to red mash. < as lemmas |
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