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Pash

//pæʃ// noun, verb, slang

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A passionate kiss. Australia, New-Zealand

    "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. 2
    The head. obsolete

    "Leo[ntes]: Thou want′ſt a rough paſh, & the shoots that I haue, / To be full like me:"

  3. 3
    A smash, a crash; a heavy collision, fall, or blow, or the sound made by it.

    "[…] the pash of a crushed skull, an oath, or a grunt caused by the impact of a rifle's muzzle against the abdomen transfixed by its bayonet."

  4. 4
    A romantic infatuation; a crush.

    "‘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.’"

  5. 5
    A sudden and heavy fall or gush of rain, snow, hail or other water. dialectal

    "BACKEN, To retard, "This pash o'rain 'ul backen our potatoes.""

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  1. 6
    The object of a romantic infatuation; a crush.
  2. 7
    Any obsession or passion.
Verb
  1. 1
    To snog, to make out, to kiss. Australia, New-Zealand, slang

    "‘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."

  2. 2
    To throw (something), as if to break (it). dialectal
  3. 3
    To smash; to crush; to bash; to break into pieces.

    "Hercules, that in his infancie Did paſh the iawes of Serpents venemous:"

  4. 4
    To fall heavily or forcefully.

    "... sent a heavy rain-drop pashing in our faces and now woke the woods with rattling peals of thunder."

Etymology

Etymology 1

Clipping of passion.

Etymology 2

Clipping of passion.

Etymology 3

Scots word for the pate, or head.

Etymology 4

Perhaps of imitative origin, or compare bash. For the senses "rain heavily", "a heavy rain" (perhaps also imitative), compare plash, blash, clash (“heavy rainfall”).

Etymology 5

Perhaps of imitative origin, or compare bash. For the senses "rain heavily", "a heavy rain" (perhaps also imitative), compare plash, blash, clash (“heavy rainfall”).

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