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 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)
• Bulgarian: please add this translation if you can
• Catalan: aixafapatates m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 土豆泥捣具

• 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
• Italian: schiacciapatate (it) m, passapatate 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
• Turkish: patates ezici
• Ukrainian: товка́чка f (tovkáčka), м'ялка (uk) f (mʺjalka)
• Volga German: Stombel m

Further reading

• Stielhandgranate on Wikipedia.Wikipedia