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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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pish
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /p??/
Interjection
pish
- Expressing disdain.
Synonyms
- pht, feh, meh, pooh, pshaw, bah, poh; see also Thesaurus:bah
Noun
pish (plural pishes)
- A sibilant noise (e.g. "psshh") made by birders and ornithologists to attract small birds.
Verb
pish (third-person singular simple present pishes, present participle pishing, simple past and past participle pished)
- To try to attract birds by making a sibilant noise (e.g. "psshh").
- To express contempt.
Adjective
pish (comparative more pish, superlative most pish)
- (vulgar, colloquial, chiefly Scotland) Of poor quality; very bad.
Usage notes
- Most commonly found in the gerund or present participle pishing.
References
- pish in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- Dunne, Peter (2006). The Art of Pishing: How to Attract Birds by Mimicking Their Calls. ?ISBN.
- Langham, G. M.; Contreras, T. A. & Sieving, K. E. (2006). Why pishing works: Titmouse (Paridae) scolds elicit a generalized response in bird communities. Ecoscience 13 (4): 485–496. doi:10.2980/1195-6860(2006)13[485:WPWTPS]2.0.CO;2
Anagrams
- -ship, HIPs, hiPS, hips, phis, ship
Chinook Jargon
Etymology 1
Borrowed from English fish, or possibly French pêche.
Noun
pish
- fish
Etymology 2
From Chinook opitshka.
Noun
pish
- fire
Synonyms
- piah
Mohegan-Pequot
Alternative forms
- beesh (obsolete orthography)
Etymology
From English peas.
Noun
pish
- peas
References
- A Vocabulary of Mohegan-Pequot (John D. Prince, Frank G. Speck)
Scots
Etymology
From late Middle English pyshe, variant of pisse.
Pronunciation
- enPR: p?sh, IPA(key): /p??/
- Rhymes: -??
Noun
pish (uncountable)
- (vulgar) Urine, piss.
- (vulgar) Crust on a scabbing wound.
Verb
pish (third-person singular present pishes, present participle pishin, past pished, past participle pished)
- To urinate, to piss.
Derived terms
- reekin o pish
Adjective
pish (comparative mair pish, superlative maist pish)
- (vulgar) Not very good, in fact quite bad.
Interjection
pish
- An expression of disdain.
References
- “pish” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.
Western Apache
Etymology
From English fish.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [p????]
Noun
pish
- fish
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