Word: masher
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...return, Jack would greatly relieve me. Jack was what in plebeian parlance is sometimes denominated a "masher." In other words, he was good-looking and very facetious, hence the girls very naturally succumbed...
...array himself in purple and fine linen, and, with a face shining as the sun, save where it is marred by a hurried shave, he hasteneth to the house of music and the dance, and sayeth, "Go to; now will I enjoy myself, eat, drink, and be a masher;" and lo, as he entereth the chamber of the dance, he perceiveth even afar off a maiden of the tribes that dwell beyond the Hudson, - yea, even on the shores of the great seas have they set up their tabernacles, - and lo, the maiden is fair, yea, passing fair to look...
...masher...