So what's a "mash note"?

[juliette]

Since I have spent the past three years surfing the web 9+ hours a day, 5+ days a week, I can usually find what I am looking for. Today however, I am so far fruitless in my search for a genuine definition of the term "mash note."

Though it was probably coined sometime in the '30s, the term is still in use today, particularly by film and book reviewers (Almost Famous is Russell Crowe's mash note to the sixties...) yet the best I can come up with is pithy contextual usages:

http://www.scalzi.com/whatever/w990222.html

http://www.time.com/time/nation/arti...,52689,00.html

http://www.ksu.edu/english/nelp/purp...hy_parker.html

but no definitions. Any suggestions would be much appreciated!

julie

[soxfan[$]]

Here you go.

http://dictionary.msn.com/find/entry...efid=561534805

Ailsa

[juliette]

Woo hoo! You rock soxfan! (I should have known to put microsoft between the dictionary and the com...)

[soxfan[$]]

No problem! I guess Microsoft's good for something, eh?

Ailsa