Masher vs Joseph - What's the difference?
masher | joseph |
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.
a man who makes often unwelcome advances to women
*around 1900 , O. Henry,
*:"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."
a fashionable man, a dandy, a fop
(rare) A man who molests women, as in a subway.
(biblical) Eleventh and favorite son of Jacob, by his wife Rachel.
* :
* 1913 ,
The husband of Virgin Mary.
* :
The 12th sura (chapter) of the Quran
(Christianity) (Joseph of Arimathea); man who donated his own prepared tomb for the burial of Jesus.
, popular as a middle name.
* 1998 (Steven Herrick), A Place Like This , Univ. of Queensland Press, ISBN 0702229849, page 86:
As nouns the difference between masher and joseph
is that masher is one who, or that which, mashes or masher can be a man who makes often unwelcome advances to women while joseph is (sometimes capitalised) a woman's riding habit worn in the 18th century with a long cape and buttons running down the front.masher
English
Etymology 1
Etymology 2
EitherMash 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 borrowed as masher, from (masha), or from . Leland writes of the etymology:Preface to poem “The Masher”, in his
Songs of the Sea and Lays of the Land],[http://books.google.com/books?id=B2GmNo96450C&printsec=frontcover
Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* dude, doodReferences
Anagrams
* *joseph
English
(wikipedia Joseph)Proper noun
(en proper noun)- Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age: and he made him a coat of many colours.
- A few shocks of corn in a corner of the fallow stood up as if alive; she imagined them bowing; perhaps her son would be a Joseph .
- And Jesus himself began to be about thirty years of age, being (as was supposed) the son of Joseph , which was the son of Heli.
- I'm going to call him Joseph' / or Josephine if it's a girl. / Why? / Because it's a strong name, / Joe, ' Joseph . / You give a kid a name like Cameron / or Alfred, or something like that, / and they end up wearing glasses / and looking at computers for the rest of their life. / - - - So Joe it is. / He'll turn out strong. Strong and smart.