Mash vs Toby - What's the difference?

mash | toby |

As an acronym mash

is mobile army surgical hospital.

As a proper noun toby is

As a noun toby is

the superintendent of a street market.

mash

English

Etymology 1

See mesh

Noun

(es)

(obsolete) A mesh

Etymology 2

From (etyl) mash, . See (l).

Noun

(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.

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.

Mashed potatoes.

A mixture of meal or bran and water fed to animals.

(obsolete): A mess; trouble.

(Beaumont and Fletcher)

Derived terms

* mash tun * mash vat

Verb

(es)

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.

To press down hard (on).

to mash on a bicycle pedal

(transitive, southern US, informal) to press.

(UK) To prepare a cup of tea (in a teapot), alternative to brew; used mainly in Northern England

* 1913 ,

He took the kettle off the fire and mashed the tea.

Derived terms

* mashing * mashed potato, mashed potatoes * bangers and mash * mashup

Etymology 3

Either Mash Note] at World Wide Words[http://books.google.com/books?id=j41z0yeKbeIC&pg=PA195&dq=masher The City in Slang], by Irving L. Allen, [http://books.google.com/books?id=j41z0yeKbeIC&pg=PA195&dq=masher p. 195] by analogy withThe Barnhart Concise Dictionary of Etymology,'' as cited at [http://www.grammarphobia.com/blog/2007/03/mash-notes.html The Grammarphobia Blog: Mash notes], March 16, 2007 . Originally used in theater,Random House Historical Dictionary of American Slang and recorded in US in 1870s. Either originally used as mash, or a backformation from (masher), from (masha). Leland writes of the etymology:Preface to poem “The Masher”, in his ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=B2GmNo96450C Songs of the Sea and Lays of the Land], [http://books.google.com/books?id=B2GmNo96450C&printsec=frontcover

PPA243,M1 p. 243] ([http://www.archive.org/stream/songsofthesea00lelarich/songsofthesea00lelarich_djvu.txt full text)

: It was introduced by the well-known gypsy family of actors, C., among whom Romany was habitually spoken. The word “masher” or “mash” means in that tongue to allure, delude, or entice. It was doubtless much aided in its popularity by its quasi-identity with the English word. But there can be no doubt as to the gypsy origin of “mash” as used on the stage. I am indebted for this information to the late well-known impresario [Albert Marshall] Palmer of New York, and I made a note of it years before the term had become at all popular.

Verb

to flirt, to make eyes, to make romantic advances

Noun

(es)

(obsolete) an infatuation, a crush, a fancy

(obsolete) a dandy, a masher

(obsolete) the object of one’s affections (either sex)

Derived terms

* (l) * (l)

References

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toby

English

Noun

(tobies)

A mug, in the shape of a human head with a hat atop.

(British, New Zealand) The valve that mediates the connection between a mains water-supply and a premises's own plumbing.

The road or highway

* 1931 , Eric Blair (the real name of George Orwell), "Hop-picking" in The New Statesman of 17th October 1931.

It is no wonder that itinerant agricultural workers travel on the toby and sleep in casual wards between jobs.

Derived terms

* toby box