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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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past
English
Etymology
From Middle English, past participle of passen (“to pass, to go by”), whence Modern English pass.
Pronunciation
- (UK) enPR: päst, IPA(key): /p??st/
- (US) enPR: p?st, IPA(key): /pæst/
- Homophone: passed
- Rhymes: -æst, -??st
Noun
past (plural pasts)
- The period of time that has already happened, in contrast to the present and the future.
- 1830, Daniel Webster, a speech
- The past, at least, is secure.
- 1860, Richard Chenevix Trench, On the English Language, Past and Present
- The present is only intelligible in the light of the past, often a very remote past indeed.
- 1830, Daniel Webster, a speech
- (grammar) The past tense.
Synonyms
- (period of time that has already happened): foretime, yestertide; see also Thesaurus:the past
Derived terms
Translations
See also
- preterite
Adjective
past (comparative more past, superlative most past)
- Having already happened; in the past; finished. [from 14th c.]
- (postmodifier) Following expressions of time to indicate how long ago something happened; ago. [from 15th c.]
- 1999, George RR Martin, A Clash of Kings, Bantam 2011, page 538:
- That had been, what, three years past?
- 2009, John Sadler, Glencoe, Amberley 2009, page 20:
- Some four decades past, as a boy, I had a chance encounter and conversation with the late W.A. Poucher [...].
- 1999, George RR Martin, A Clash of Kings, Bantam 2011, page 538:
- Of a period of time: having just gone by; previous. [from 15th c.]
- (grammar) Of a tense, expressing action that has already happened or a previously-existing state. [from 18th c.]
Synonyms
- (having already happened): bygone, foregone; see also Thesaurus:past
- (having just gone by): foregone, preceding, used-to-be; see also Thesaurus:former
Translations
Adverb
past (comparative more past, superlative most past)
- In a direction that passes.
- Synonym: by
- I watched him walk past
Translations
Preposition
past
- Beyond in place or quantity
- the room past mine
- count past twenty
- (time) Any number of minutes after the last hour
- What's the time? - It's now quarter past twelve midday (or 12.15pm).
- Antonym: to
- No longer capable of.
- I'm past caring what he thinks of me.
- Having recovered or moved on from (a traumatic experience, etc.).
- Passing by, especially without stopping or being delayed.
- Ignore them, we'll play past them.
- Please don't drive past the fruit stand, I want to stop there.
Derived terms
- see past the end of one's nose
Translations
Verb
past
- (obsolete) simple past tense and past participle of pass
- 1632, John Vicars, The XII Aeneids of Virgil
- Great Tuscane dames, as she their towns past by, / Wisht her their daughter-in-law, but frustrately.
- 1632, John Vicars, The XII Aeneids of Virgil
Related terms
- past master
- past it
- run past
- slip one past
- sneak past
- talk past
Anagrams
- APTS, APTs, ATSP, PATs, PSAT, PTAs, PTSA, TAPs, TPAs, Taps, ap'ts, apts, pats, spat, stap, taps
Czech
Etymology
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Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /past/
- Rhymes: -ast
Noun
past f
- trap (a device designed to catch and sometimes kill animals)
Declension
Derived terms
- pasti?ka
See also
- lé?ka
- záloha
- nástraha
- úskalí
Further reading
- past in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
- past in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989
Anagrams
- spát
- psát
Dutch
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -?st
- IPA(key): /p?st/
Verb
past
- second- and third-person singular present indicative of passen
- (archaic) plural imperative of passen
Anagrams
- spat, stap, taps
Middle French
Etymology
From Old French past, from Latin pastus (“pasture”).
Noun
past m (plural pasts)
- food, meal
Old French
Etymology
From Latin pastus (“pasture”), probably influenced by paste (“dough, pastry”).
Alternative forms
- paist, pest, pas
Noun
past m (nominative singular past)
- food, meal
Descendants
- Middle French: past
Polish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /past/
Noun
past f
- genitive plural of pasta
Slovene
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pá?st/
Noun
p?st f
- trap
Inflection
Verb
p?st
- supine of pásti
Further reading
- “past”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran
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