different between pash vs plash

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.

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   • 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

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /plæ?/
• Rhymes: -æ?

Etymology 1

From Middle English plasch, plasche, from Old English plæs? (“pool, puddle”). Cognate with Dutch plas (“pool, watering hole”). Related also to West Frisian plaskje (“to splash, splatter”), Dutch plassen (“to splash, splatter”), German platschen (“to splash”).

Noun

plash (plural plashes)

1. (Britain, dialectal) A small pool of standing water; a puddle.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.viii:

     Out of the wound the red bloud flowed fresh, / That vnderneath his feet soone made a purple plesh.

   • 1597, Francis Bacon, Of the Coulers of Good and Evill, 4:

     Hereof Aesop framed the Fable of the two Frogs that consulted together in time of drowth (when many plashes that they had repayred to were dry) what was to be done.

   • 1855, Robert Browning, “Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came”, XXII:

     Who were the strugglers, what war did they wage, / Whose savage trample thus could pad the dank / Soil to a plash? [...]

   • a. 1677, Isaac Barrow, The Consideration of our Latter End (sermon)

     These shallow plashes.

2. A splash, or the sound made by a splash.
   • 1888, Henry James, The Aspern Papers

     Presently a gondola passed along the canal with its slow rhythmical plash, and as we listened we watched it in silence.

3. A sudden downpour.

Verb

plash (third-person singular simple present plashes, present participle plashing, simple past and past participle plashed)

1. (intransitive) To splash.

   • plashing among bedded pebbles

   • 1855, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Song of Hiawatha

     Far below him plashed the waters.

   • […] heedless of my expostulations and the growling thunder, and the great drops that began to plash around her […]

2. (transitive) To cause a splash.
3. (transitive) To splash or sprinkle with colouring matter.

   to plash a wall in imitation of granite

Related terms

• plashy

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English *plasshen, *plaisshen, *plesshen, from Old French plaissier, plessier (“to bend”). For the noun, compare Middle English plaisshes (“hedges forming an enclosure, palisade of hedges or wattles”). Compare also pleach.

Noun

plash (plural plashes)

1. The branch of a tree partly cut or bent, and bound to, or intertwined with, other branches.

Verb

plash (third-person singular simple present plashes, present participle plashing, simple past and past participle plashed)

1. (transitive) To cut partly, or to bend and intertwine the branches of.
2. (transitive) To bend down a bough (in order to pick fruit from it).
   • {{1679, John Bunyan, Pilgrim's Progress, Second Part: Some of the trees hung over the wall, and my brother did plash and eat.

Anagrams

• Pahls, halps, phals