pash

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pæʃ/
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  • Rhymes: -æʃ
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Etymology 1

Clipping of passion.

Verb

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.
    • 2003, Andrew Daddo, You’re Dropped!‎[1], →ISBN:
      ‘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.
    • 2005, Gabrielle Morrissey, Urge: Hot Secrets For Great Sex, HarperCollins Publishers (Australia), unnumbered page,
      There are hundreds of different types of kisses; and there are kissing Kamasutras available in bookshops to help you add variety to your pashing repertoire.
    • 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[2]:
      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.

Noun

pash (plural pashes)

  1. (Australia, New Zealand) A passionate kiss.
    • 2003, Frances Whiting, Oh to Be a Marching Girl, page 18:
      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. A romantic infatuation; a crush.
    • 1988, Catherine Cookson, “Bill Bailey’s Daughter”, in Bill Bailey: An Omnibus, published 1997, page 166:
      ‘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.’
    • 2002, Thelma Ruck Keene, The Handkerchief Drawer: An Autobiography in Three Parts, page 92:
      Not until the outcome of Denise’s pash did I admit that my pash on Joan had been very different.
    • 2010, Gwyneth Daniel, A Suitable Distance, page 82:
      At school it was called a pash. 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. She still had a pash on Robin. He still smiled at her.
  3. The object of a romantic infatuation; a crush.
  4. Any obsession or passion.
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Etymology 2

Scots word for the pate, or head.

Noun

pash (plural pashes)

  1. (obsolete) The 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”).

Verb

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

  1. (dialect) To throw (something), as if to break (it).
  2. To smash; to crush; to bash; to break into pieces.[1]
  3. (of rain) To fall heavily or forcefully.
    • 1838, Robert Montgomery Bird, A night on the Terrapin rocks. The Mammoth cave. The bloody broad-horn, page 71:
      ... sent a heavy rain-drop pashing in our faces and now woke the woods with rattling peals of thunder.
    • 1921, Eleanor Acland, Dark Side Out, page 197:
      ... the rain came "pashing" down again and drove her indoors.

Noun

pash (plural pashes)

  1. A smash, a crash; a heavy collision, fall, or blow, or the sound made by it.
    • 1909, Ambrose Bierce, The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce ...: In the midst of life (tales of soldiers and civilians), page 160:
      […] 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.
    • 1917, Gilbert Frankau, The City of Fear, and Other Poems, page 5:
      [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; […]
  2. (dialectal) A sudden and heavy fall or gush of rain, snow, hail or other water.
    • 1828, William Carr, The Dialect of Craven: In the West-Riding of the County of York, page 19:
      BACKEN, To retard, "This pash o'rain 'ul backen our potatoes."
    • 1850, Agricultural Drainage, page 43:
      A pash of rain then raised it about 6 inches, but four dry days reduced it to its previous level.
    • 1877, William Morley Egglestone, Betty Podkins, 13:
      Mony a thunner pash it's been oot in.
    • 1883, Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art, Transactions of the Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art, page 90:
      ... the water came down with such a pash that ...
    • 1913, Jonathan Swift, The Correspondence of Jonathan Swift, D. D., page 299:
      Labes, a great fall, or pash of rain or hail, etc.
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References

  1. ^ “pash”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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