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hashing

hashing

4.1
A dish made by chopping meat and potatoes and frying them
  • noun
  • /ˈhæʃɪŋ/
translation icon : hash
  • His skillful hashing of the leftover roast turned it into a delicious breakfast.

Examples

  • The restaurant is famous for its traditional hashing on Sunday mornings.

  • She learned the art of hashing from her grandmother, who made the best hash in town.

  • I love hashing leftover meat and potatoes.

  • Making hashing a family tradition is enjoyable.

  • His skillful hashing of the leftover roast turned it into a delicious breakfast.

  • The restaurant is famous for its traditional hashing on Sunday mornings.

  • She learned the art of hashing from her grandmother, who made the best hash in town.

Synonyms

cooking
vshashing
504 1.0

Preparing food by heating it, for example by boiling, baking, frying or roasting

focuses on chopping and mixing ingredients rather than primarily using heat

How Coarse

cubing
3.2
hashing
4.1

Surface Forms

hashing singular
hashings plural

Morphology

hashing = hash (transparent) = hash + ing

Standard gerundial nominalization of the cooking verb 'hash'; the meaning 'the process of preparing a hash (dish)' follows directly from the verb.

Etymology

The word hashing comes from hash, which means 'chopped and mixed' food, so hashing is the simple cooking process of chopping leftover meat and potatoes and mixing them into a new dish.