A letter which expresses infatuation with or gushing admiration of someone.
‘she told him to stop annoying her with flowers and mash notes’
‘Attributed to no one, the words appeared in a prominent mash note about machinery of death from the New York Times, a newspaper that's supposed to epitomize the highest journalistic standards.’
‘In return, users can post a brief mash note above the career numbers of their favorite player in baseball history.’
‘Each young man, on identical sheets of paper, sends what is in effect a mash note.’
‘The novel opens with William sending Emily a shy, exploratory mash note.’
‘Equal parts biography, sociology text, and mash note, it is the most complete account yet of his influence on pop music and a fervent memoir of fandom.’
‘We are outrageously sentimental, giving each other pet names, mash notes and flowers, and doing all sorts of things too silly to tell anyone else.’
‘Nearly a million people were downloading each episode every Friday, writing mash notes to the creators and asking if they could buy a DVD of the collected episodes.’
‘Geeks swooned over her and began posting frantic mash notes on discussion boards planetwide.’
‘He recently launched a site where people can write mash notes about their favorite brands.’
‘Banks and insurance offices value the gravitas the old-world hardware lends, while power-suited yuppies use the tubes to send mash notes to their girlfriends.’
‘Why have you not been answering my mash notes of late?’
‘Please, someone explain to me once again why this guy gets paid to write mash notes and I'm still giving my words out for free.’
‘A friend and I were reading a recent article in the New York Times that made mention of a mash note.’
‘Last week, when I wrote about the "mash note" I'd received, I didn't actually have it in front of me.’
‘For these, the brothers have sent a mash note in a language every geek can understand.’
Origin
Late 19th century from slang mash (see masher) + note.
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