Noun: hash
| Singular | hash |
| Plural | hashes |
Sample Sentences
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Near-synonym: scramble
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I had for them, after oysters, at first course, a hash of rabbits, a lamb, and a rare chine of beef. [1633, Samuel Pepys, Diary:]
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Oh! no, not Naylor's--the girls have made a hash there, as they do everything else; but we will settle her before they come out again. [1847, Charlotte Yonge, Scenes and Characters:]
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The keyboard 10 has four named keys (not shown) marked “VIEWDATA”, “PROGRAM”, “PAGE TRANSMIT”, and “CLEAR” and two further keys (marked respectively with an asterisk and a hash symbol) in addition to the numeric keys previously mentioned. [1981 September 15, David C. A. Connolly, Harry Shutt, U.S. Patent 4289930, Electronic aparatus for the display of information received over a line:]
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October 28, 1752, Horace Walpole, letter to Sir Horace Mann
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I cannot bear elections, and still less the hash of them over again in a first session.
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Most hashes are planned as family affairs, with a shorter "puppy" trail laid for the children. [1987, Susan Scott-Stevens, Foreign Consultants and Counterparts, page 81:]
Nouns inflected like hash
penniless-bench,
wintergrass,
kitchen pass,
grey fox,
grey box,
trailer hitch,
paleness,
loaded march,
Tush Push,
horribleness,
slaughteress,
chapparvovirus,
greenwax,
royal flush,
crab cactus,
geostress,
syngas,
wintercress,
ichthys,
ichthus, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From French hacher (“to chop”), from Middle French hacher, from Old French hacher, from Old French hache (“axe”), from Frankish *happjā (“axe”). Compare also Old English ġehæċċa (“sausage meat”, literally “that which is hacked or chopped up”).
Verbs referencing "hash"
Dutch Nouns
hasj, Faroese Nouns
hassj.