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pashing

pashing is the present participle and gerund of pash.

Meaning of pash

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

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...
  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

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Questions about pashing

What is pashing the present participle and gerund of?
Pashing is the present participle and gerund of pash.

Words near pashing in the dictionary

  1. pashequaw
  2. pasher
  3. pashers
  4. pashes
  5. pashim
  6. pashing
  7. Pashinyan
  8. pashiuba
  9. pashiubas
  10. pashkevil
  11. pashkevilim

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