mashers

• “For a like reason the Yellow Bedstraw has become known as "Petty mugget," from the French _petit muguet_, a little dandy, as applied in ridicule to effeminate young men, the _Jemmy Jessamies_, or "mashers" of the period.”

  Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure

• “Let some brazen woman take the place of one of these street "mashers," and proceed to ogle passers-by, and see how quickly the police would gather her in.”

  Stage Confidences

• “He himself had seen a group of the odious "mashers" with his own eyes; Buck had pointed them out as they walked up.”

  Queed

• “The "mashers" and "crutch and toothpick brigade" of the stage were rather the progenitors than imitators of the type, and the Gibson girls were more numerous after the appearance of Miss Camille Clifford than before she came to London.”

  Our Stage and Its Critics By "E.F.S." of "The Westminster Gazette"

• “A fortnight afterwards, however, when on attending court as usual he had the pleasure of seeing some seven or eight Zu-Vendi 'mashers' arrayed in all the glory of a very fair imitation of his full-dress uniform, he changed his mind.”

  Allan Quatermain

• “The cynical insolence of the letter, together with its entire want of form, was a perfect example of the style affected by those loiterers about town, known to the Parisians as "mashers;" and yet Rose did not appear at all disgusted by the reception of such an unworthily worded proposal, but, on the contrary, rather pleased by its contents.”

  Caught in the Net

• “Add in recent big-ticket picks that the Red Sox have not signed, such as mashers Pedro Alvarez, Matt LaPorta, and Hunter Morris, and you can see where this theory might have some legs to it.”

  Boston Dirt Dogs

• “mashers," that is, young men who stand on the corners and pulverize women, and a great many good people got the idea that it was unsafe to travel the streets.”

  Peck's Sunshine Being a Collection of Articles Written for Peck's Sun, Milwaukee, Wis. - 1882

• “Ayala gave up a single, and Girardi immediately pulled him to bring in inconsistent lefty Boone Logan to face mashers Joey Votto and Jay Bruce.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Nova Twirls a Gem, Yanks Hang On To Beat Reds

• “(I can't do those combo things on my life; button mashers unite!)”

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