pashes

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
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...

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

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