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pash

/pæʃ/

pash verb: to snog, to make out, to kiss.

Verb (1)

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.
    • ‘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.2003, Andrew Daddo, You’re Dropped!, →ISBN

Noun (1)

pash (plural pashes)

  1. (Australia, New Zealand) A passionate kiss.
    • 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
    Synonyms:
    snog
  2. 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.’1988, Catherine Cookson, “Bill Bailey’s Daughter”, in Bill Bailey: An Omnibus, published 1997, page 166
    • Not until the outcome of Denise’s pash did I admit that my pash on Joan had been very different.2002, Thelma Ruck Keene, The Handkerchief Drawer: An Autobiography in Three Parts, page 92
  3. The object of a romantic infatuation; a crush.
  4. Any obsession or passion.

Noun (2)

pash (plural pashes)

  1. (obsolete) The head.
    • Leo[ntes]: Thou want′ſt a rough paſh, & the shoots that I haue, / To be full like me:c. 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Winters Tale”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount...

Verb (2)

pash (third-person singular simple present pashes, present participle pashing, simple past and past participle pashed)

  1. (dialectal) To throw (something), as if to break (it).
  2. To smash; to crush; to bash; to break into pieces.
    • Hercules, that in his infancie
      Did paſh the iawes of Serpents venemous:c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC...
    • I'll pash him o'er the face.c. 1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and...
  3. To fall heavily or forcefully.
    • ... sent a heavy rain-drop pashing in our faces and now woke the woods with rattling peals of thunder.1838, Robert Montgomery Bird, A night on the Terrapin rocks. The Mammoth cave. The bloody broad-horn, page 71
    • ... the rain came "pashing" down again and drove her indoors.1921, Eleanor Acland, Dark Side Out, page 197

Noun (3)

pash (plural pashes)

  1. 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.1909, Ambrose Bierce, The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce ...: In the midst of life (tales of soldiers and civilians), page 160
    • [Neither] the pash of a hoof on the marge, crack of whip, nor the shout of driver gladdens the quiet: the foul weeds knot, strangling the sluggish flow of the waterway; […]1917, Gilbert Frankau, The City of Fear, and Other Poems, page 5
  2. (dialectal) A sudden and heavy fall or gush of rain, snow, hail or other water.
    • BACKEN, To retard, "This pash o'rain 'ul backen our potatoes."1828, William Carr, The Dialect of Craven: In the West-Riding of the County of York, page 19
    • A pash of rain then raised it about 6 inches, but four dry days reduced it to its previous level.1850, Agricultural Drainage, page 43

pash meaning in Tamil

pash in Tamil

பாஷா, உயர்தரத் துருக்கிய அதிகாரி, துருக்கிய படைத்தலைவர், துருக்கி மாகாண ஆளுநர்

Examples of pash in a sentence

  • A few hours later, having pashed near the bins outside a supermarket, I stumbled towards my tube station certain I had met the love of my life.2023 January 31, Clem Bastow, “My bad trip – I met a handsome Scot with a crossword and thought it was true love”, in The Guardian:
  • 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.2010, Gwyneth Daniel, A Suitable Distance, page 82:
  • [...] 'tis a brute must walk / Pashing their life out, with a brute's intents.1855, Robert Browning, Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came, section XII:
  • ... the water came down with such a pash that ...1883, Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art, Transactions of the Devonshire Association for the...

Synonyms of pash

Forms of pash

Verb
third-person singular presentpashes
present participlepashing
past participlepashed
pastpashed
Noun
pluralpashes

Origin of pash

Clipping of passion.

Scots word for the pate, or head.

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

Words formed from pash

Words that rhyme with pash

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Questions about pash

What does pash mean?
Pash means to snog, to make out, to kiss.
What is pash in Tamil?
Pash in Tamil is பாஷா, உயர்தரத் துருக்கிய அதிகாரி, துருக்கிய படைத்தலைவர். See Pash meaning in Tamil.
How do you use pash in a sentence?
A few hours later, having pashed near the bins outside a supermarket, I stumbled towards my tube station certain I had met the love of my life.
What part of speech is pash?
Pash can be a verb or a noun.
How do you pronounce pash?
Pash is pronounced /pæʃ/.
What is the past tense of pash?
The past tense of pash is pashed.

Words near pash in the dictionary

  1. PASGs
  2. PASGT
  3. PASGTs
  4. pasguard
  5. pasguards
  6. pash
  7. pash rash
  8. pasha
  9. pashadom
  10. pashadoms
  11. Pashaian

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