Bash
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bash¹
- /bæʃ/
Rhymes with -æʃ
Where it comes from
From Middle English *basshen, *basken, likely from Old Norse *baska (“to strike”), akin to Swedish basa (“to baste, whip, lash, flog”), Danish baske (“to beat, strike, cudgel”), German patschen (“to slap”)
verb bashes · bashing · bashed
- To strike heavily; to beat. The thugs kept bashing the cowering victim.
- To collide; used with into or together. Don't bash into me with that shopping trolley.
- To criticize harshly. He bashed my ideas.
noun bashes
- A forceful blow or impact. He got a bash on the head.
- A large party; a gala event. They had a big bash to celebrate their tenth anniversary.
- An attempt at doing something. give something a bash
bash²
- /bæʃ/
Rhymes with -æʃ
Where it comes from
From Middle English baschen, baissen. See abash.
verb bashes · bashing · bashed
- To abash (make ashamed) His countenance was bold and bashed not.
Bash³
Rhymes with -æʃ
Where it comes from
Short for Bourne-again shell, a pun on the name of the Bourne shell, an earlier Unix shell designed by Stephen R. Bourne, and the Christian concept of being "born again".
proper noun
- The Free Software Foundation's command interpreter (the "shell") for UNIX-like operating systems.
- The scripting language provided with this interpreter.
Bash⁴
Rhymes with -æʃ
Where it comes from
Reflecting a dialect in which /s/ assimilates to /ʃ/ before /tʃ/
proper noun
- A diminutive of the male given name Sebastian.
