What does "pash" mean?
A passionate kiss.
Pash
/pæʃ/ noun, verb, slang
noun, verb, slang ·Moderate ·High school level
Meaning at a glance
- Primary sense: A passionate kiss.
- Grammar: pash is listed as noun, verb, slang.
- Nearest alternatives: burst, case, crush, fragment.
- Usage evidence: ‘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.
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Definitions
Noun
- 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 The head. obsolete
"Leo[ntes]: Thou want′ſt a rough paſh, & the shoots that I haue, / To be full like me:"
- 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 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 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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- 6 The object of a romantic infatuation; a crush.
- 7 Any obsession or passion.
Verb
- 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 To throw (something), as if to break (it). dialectal
- 3 To smash; to crush; to bash; to break into pieces.
"Hercules, that in his infancie Did paſh the iawes of Serpents venemous:"
- 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."
Synonyms
All synonymsExample
"‘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."
Common questions
What is a synonym for "pash"?
Common synonyms include: burst, case, crush, fragment, french kiss, infatuation.
How do you use "pash" in a sentence?
‘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.
How do you pronounce "pash"?
Pronounced /pæʃ/.
Etymology
Etymology 1
Clipping of passion.
Etymology 2
Scots word for the pate, or head.
Etymology 3
Perhaps of imitative origin, or compare bash. For the senses "rain heavily", "a heavy rain" (perhaps also imitative), compare plash, blash, clash (“heavy rainfall”).