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pash
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pæ?/
- Rhymes: -æ?
Etymology 1
Clipping of passion.
Verb
pash (third-person singular simple present pashes, present participle pashing, simple past and past participle pashed)
- (Australia, New Zealand, slang) To snog, to make out, to kiss.
- 2003, Andrew Daddo, You’re Dropped!, ?ISBN, unnumbered page,
- ‘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 was good at.
- 2005, Gabrielle Morrissey, Urge: Hot Secrets For Great Sex, HarperCollins Publishers (Australia), unnumbered page,
- There are hundreds of different types of kisses; and there are kissing Kamasutras available in bookshops to help you add variety to your pashing repertoire.
- 2003, Andrew Daddo, You’re Dropped!, ?ISBN, unnumbered page,
Noun
pash (plural pashes)
- (Australia, New Zealand) A passionate kiss.
- 2003, Frances Whiting, Oh to Be a Marching Girl, page 18,
- 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.
- 2003, Frances Whiting, Oh to Be a Marching Girl, page 18,
- A romantic infatuation; a crush.
- 1988, Catherine Cookson, Bill Bailey’s Daughter, in 1997, Bill Bailey: An Omnibus, page 166,
- ‘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.’
- 2002, Thelma Ruck Keene, The Handkerchief Drawer: An Autobiography in Three Parts, page 92,
- Not until the outcome of Denise’s pash did I admit that my pash on Joan had been very different.
- 2010, Gwyneth Daniel, A Suitable Distance, page 82,
- At school it was called a pash. Having a pash on big handsome Robin, who used to cycle up to the village in his holidays from boarding school, and smile at her. She still had a pash on Robin. He still smiled at her.
- 1988, Catherine Cookson, Bill Bailey’s Daughter, in 1997, Bill Bailey: An Omnibus, page 166,
- The object of a romantic infatuation; a crush.
- Any obsession or passion.
Synonyms
- (kiss): snog (UK)
Etymology 2
Scots word for the pate, or head.
Noun
pash (plural pashes)
- (Britain, dialect, obsolete) A crushing blow.
- (Britain, dialect, obsolete) A heavy fall of rain or snow.
- (obsolete) The head.
- 1623, William Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale, Act I, Scene ii,
- Leo[ntes]: Thou want??t a rough pa?h, & the shoots that I haue, / To be full like me:
- 1623, William Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale, Act I, Scene ii,
Etymology 3
Probably of imitative origin, or possibly akin to box (“to fight with the fists”).
Verb
pash (third-person singular simple present pashes, present participle pashing, simple past and past participle pashed)
- (dialect) To throw (or be thrown) and break.
- To strike; to crush; to smash; to dash into pieces.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Piers Plowman to this entry?)
- 1855, Robert Browning, “Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came”, XII:
- [...] 'tis a brute must walk / Pashing their life out, with a brute's intents.
Anagrams
- HSAP, HSPA, PAHs, PHAs, SAHP, Shap, haps, hasp, pahs, psha
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nash
English
Etymology 1
Dialectal variant of gnash.
Adjective
nash (comparative more nash, superlative most nash)
- (Britain, dialect) firm; stiff; hard
- (Britain, dialect) chilly
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Halliwell to this entry?)
Etymology 2
Perhaps from Romani.
Verb
nash (third-person singular simple present nashes, present participle nashing, simple past and past participle nashed)
- (Edinburgh, dialect) to hurry; run; get away
Anagrams
- HANS, HNAs, Hans, Shan, shan
Kalasha
Verb
nash
- kill
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