pash
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pash¹
- /pæʃ/
Rhymes with -æʃ
Where it comes from
Clipping of passion.
verb pashes · pashing · pashed
- To snog, to make out, to kiss. ‘You gonna pash her?’ ‘We only just started going together,’ I said. Pash her? Already? I hadn’t even kissed a girl properly yet. ‘Do you know how to pash?’ It sounded like a challenge. Jed Wall was a bit like that. When he wasn’t just hanging he was fighting or pashing or something that no one else
noun pashes
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A passionate kiss.
Anyway, the point is, my first pash — or snog, or whatever you want to call it — was so bloody awful it’s a miracle I ever opened my mouth again.
Similar: snog
- A romantic infatuation; a crush. ‘It isn’t a pash. Nancy Burke’s got a pash on Mr Richards and Mary Parkin has a pash on Miss Taylor, and so have other girls. But I haven’t got a pash on Rupert. It isn’t like that. I know it isn’t. I know it isn’t.’
- The object of a romantic infatuation; a crush.
- Any obsession or passion.
pash²
- /pæʃ/
Rhymes with -æʃ
Where it comes from
Scots word for the pate, or head.
noun pashes
- The head. Leo[ntes]: Thou want′ſt a rough paſh, & the shoots that I haue, / To be full like me:
pash³
- /pæʃ/
Rhymes with -æʃ
Where it comes from
Perhaps of imitative origin, or compare bash.
For the senses "rain heavily", "a heavy rain" (perhaps also imitative), compare plash, blash, clash (“heavy rainfall”).
verb pashes · pashing · pashed
- To throw (something), as if to break (it).
- To smash; to crush; to bash; to break into pieces. Hercules, that in his infancie Did paſh the iawes of Serpents venemous:
- To fall heavily or forcefully. ... sent a heavy rain-drop pashing in our faces and now woke the woods with rattling peals of thunder.
noun pashes
- A smash, a crash; a heavy collision, fall, or blow, or the sound made by it. […] the pash of a crushed skull, an oath, or a grunt caused by the impact of a rifle's muzzle against the abdomen transfixed by its bayonet.
- A sudden and heavy fall or gush of rain, snow, hail or other water. BACKEN, To retard, "This pash o'rain 'ul backen our potatoes."
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title = {pash},
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