English
Noun
potato masher (plural potato mashers)
- A utensil used to mash potatoes.
- Synonym: masher
- (military slang) A type of stick hand grenade resembling such a utensil.
1929 May–October, Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms, 1st British edition, London: Jonathan Cape […], published 1929, →OCLC, book II, page 131:‘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)
- Belarusian: бульбамялка f (bulʹbamjalka)
- Bulgarian: картофомелачка f (kartofomelačka)
- Catalan: aixafapatates m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 土豆泥捣具, 馬鈴薯泥搗具 / 马铃薯泥捣具 (mǎlíngshǔnídǎojù) (Taiwan)
- Danish: kartoffelmoser c, kartoffelstamper c
- Dutch: aardappelstamper (nl) m, stamppotstamper m
- Esperanto: kaĉigilo
- Finnish: perunasurvin (fi)
- French: presse-purée (fr) m
- German: Kartoffelstampfer (de) m
- Irish: brúiteoir prátaí m
- Italian: schiacciapatate (it) m, passapatate m
- Japanese: マッシャー
- Korean: 감자 누르개 (gamja nureugae)
- 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
- Turkish: patates ezici
- Ukrainian: товка́чка f (tovkáčka), м'ялка (uk) f (mʺjalka)
- Volga German: Stombel m
- Welsh: stwnsiwr tatws m
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