masher

Meaning

Noun

• One who, or that which, mashes.
• A machine for making mash.
• A fashionable man in the late Victorian era.
• A man who makes often unwelcome advances to women, as in a subway.

Origin

• mash + -er
• Either by analogy with masher, or more likely from Romani masha ("a fascinator, an enticer"), mashdva. Originally used in theater, and recorded in US in 1870s.
• Either originally borrowed as masher, from masha, or from mash + -er.