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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)

  1. (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.

Noun

pash (plural pashes)

  1. (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.
  2. 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.
  3. The object of a romantic infatuation; a crush.
  4. Any obsession or passion.
Synonyms
  • (kiss): snog (UK)

Etymology 2

Scots word for the pate, or head.

Noun

pash (plural pashes)

  1. (Britain, dialect, obsolete) A crushing blow.
  2. (Britain, dialect, obsolete) A heavy fall of rain or snow.
  3. (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:

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)

  1. (dialect) To throw (or be thrown) and break.
  2. 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

  1. Expressing disdain.

Synonyms

  • pht, feh, meh, pooh, pshaw, bah, poh; see also Thesaurus:bah

Noun

pish (plural pishes)

  1. 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)

  1. To try to attract birds by making a sibilant noise (e.g. "psshh").
  2. To express contempt.

Adjective

pish (comparative more pish, superlative most pish)

  1. (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

  1. fish

Etymology 2

From Chinook opitshka.

Noun

pish

  1. fire
Synonyms
  • piah

Mohegan-Pequot

Alternative forms

  • beesh (obsolete orthography)

Etymology

From English peas.

Noun

pish

  1. 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)

  1. (vulgar) Urine, piss.
  2. (vulgar) Crust on a scabbing wound.

Verb

pish (third-person singular present pishes, present participle pishin, past pished, past participle pished)

  1. To urinate, to piss.

Derived terms

  • reekin o pish

Adjective

pish (comparative mair pish, superlative maist pish)

  1. (vulgar) Not very good, in fact quite bad.

Interjection

pish

  1. 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

  1. fish

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