MASHER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does masher mean? 

• MASHER (noun)
  The noun MASHER has 2 senses:

1. a man who is aggressive in making amorous advances to women

2. a kitchen utensil used for mashing (e.g. potatoes)

  Familiarity information: MASHER used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MASHER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A man who is aggressive in making amorous advances to women

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

masher; skirt chaser; wolf; woman chaser

Hypernyms ("masher" is a kind of...):

philanderer; womaniser; womanizer (a man who likes many women and has short sexual relationships with them)

Derivation:

mash (talk or behave amorously, without serious intentions)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A kitchen utensil used for mashing (e.g. potatoes)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("masher" is a kind of...):

kitchen utensil (a utensil used in preparing food)

Derivation:

mash (reduce to small pieces or particles by pounding or abrading)

 Context examples 

Martin, after a few instructions, sorted the great heaps of soiled clothes, while Joe started the masher and made up fresh supplies of soft- soap, compounded of biting chemicals that compelled him to swathe his mouth and nostrils and eyes in bath-towels till he resembled a mummy.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)