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Synonyms for hash
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : hash |
| Phonetic Transcription : hæʃ |
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Définition of hash
Origin :- 1650s, "to hack, chop into small pieces," from French hacher "chop up," from Old French hache "ax" (see hatchet). Hash browns is short for hash browned potatoes (1917), with the -ed omitted, as in mash potatoes. The hash marks on a football field were so called 1960s, from similarity to hash marks, armed forces slang for "service stripes on the sleeve of a military uniform" (1909), which supposedly were called that because they mark the number of years one has had free food (hash (n.1)) from the Army; but perhaps there is a connection with the noun form of hatch (v.2).
- noun mess, mix-up
- There is no definition for this word—nobody knows what hash is.
- Extract from : « The Devil's Dictionary » by Ambrose Bierce
- As for poor Talien, who was playing Don Guritan, he made a hash of it every minute.
- Extract from : « My Double Life » by Sarah Bernhardt
- Rub it through a sieve, return it to the stewpan, put in the hash, and let it stand by the side of the fire till the meat is warm.
- Extract from : « The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, » by Mary Eaton
- He had supper with the boys, and his food was hash and tea and dry bread.
- Extract from : « The Night Riders » by Ridgwell Cullum
- The landlady admitted that a souffle was something not unlike a hash.
- Extract from : « Cap'n Warren's Wards » by Joseph C. Lincoln
- It looks like a plate of hash and that's the way it's pronounced.
- Extract from : « Cape Cod Stories » by Joseph C. Lincoln
- Boarder—(musingly)—But what do you do with the hash that's left over?
- Extract from : « The New Pun Book » by Thomas A. Brown and Thomas Joseph Carey
- Excuse me for a half hour while I settle your friend's hash.
- Extract from : « The Pirate of Panama » by William MacLeod Raine
- It is neither Dutch nor English nor German but is like hash, a little of this and a little of that.
- Extract from : « Patchwork » by Anna Balmer Myers
- First, you've made a hash of this cruise—you'll be a bold man to say no to that.
- Extract from : « Treasure Island » by Robert Louis Stevenson
Antonyms for hash
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