mash vs pap

mash

noun
  • A mass of mixed ingredients reduced to a soft pulpy state by beating or pressure; a mass of anything in a soft pulpy state. 

  • A gun. 

  • Mashed potatoes. 

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

  • 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. 

verb
  • To press. 

  • To press (a button) rapidly and repeatedly. 

  • To press down hard (on). 

  • To flirt, to make eyes, to make romantic advances. 

  • To convert into a mash; to reduce to a soft pulpy state by beating or pressure 

  • To prepare a cup of tea in a teapot; to brew (tea). 

  • In brewing, to convert (for example malt, or malt and meal) into the mash which makes wort. 

pap

noun
  • The pulp of fruit. 

  • Nonsense; pablum. 

  • A rounded, nipple-like hill or peak. 

  • Pap smear 

  • Food in the form of a soft paste, often a porridge, especially as given to very young children. 

  • Pa; father. 

  • Porridge. 

  • Support from official patronage. 

verb
  • Of a paparazzo, to take a surreptitious photograph of (someone, especially a celebrity) without their consent. 

adj
  • Flat. 

  • Spineless, wet, without character. 

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