mash note - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

First recorded 1880, and originally mash letter, from mash, masher, likely from Romani masha (“a fascinator, an enticer”), mashdva (“fascination, enticement”), + note. See mash for details.

mash note (plural mash notes)

1. A love letter
2. gushing praise

• Often used in or of book reviews, for enthusiastic praise.

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:mash note.

• (praise): paean

• mash
• masher

• hagiography

• Matheson, Stoneham, Thomeans, hoastmen, hostname