potato masher

potato masher

See also: potato-masher

English

The kitchen utensil.

Several grenades. Potato mashers are in the centre of the image, the short cylinders with long cylindrical handles.

Alternative forms

• potato-masher

Noun

potato masher (plural potato mashers)

1. A utensil used to mash potatoes.

   Synonym: masher

2. (military slang) A type of hand grenade resembling such a utensil.
   • 1929, Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms, Folio Society 2008, p. 120:

     ‘A hand-grenade. One of those potato-mashers. It just blew the whole side of my foot off.’

Translations

utensil for mashing potatoes

Arabic: هَرَّاسَة‎ f (harrāsa) Bulgarian: please add this translation if you can Catalan: aixafapatates m Chinese: Mandarin: 土豆泥捣具 Danish: please add this translation if you can Dutch: aardappelstamper (nl) m, stamppotstamper m Esperanto: kaĉigilo Finnish: perunasurvin (fi) French: presse-purée (fr) m German: Kartoffelstampfer (de) m Italian: schiacciapatate (it) m Japanese: マッシャー Polish: tłuczek do ziemniaków (pl) m Portuguese: esmagador de batatas m Russian: картофелемялка f (kartofelemjalka), толку́шка (ru) f (tolkúška) Scottish Gaelic: plocan buntàta Slovak: miagač na ziemiaky m Slovene: mečkalec krompirja Spanish: pisapatatas (es) m Swedish: potatisstöt (sv) c Ukrainian: товка́чка f (tovkáčka), м'ялка (uk) f (mʺjalka) Turkish: patates ezici Volga German: Stombel m