Pash

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -æʃ

Contraction of passion.

Full definition of pash

Verb

1. (dialect) To throw (or be thrown) and break.
2. (Australia, New Zealand, slang) To snog, to make out, to 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.
• 2003, Andrew Daddo, You′re Dropped!, ISBN 9780733616129, %22pashes%22|%22pashing%22|%22pashed%22+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22pash%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=mw7TT_6sBumeiAfC8rC4Aw&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22pash%22|%22pashes%22|%22pashing%22|%22pashed%22%20-intitle%3A%22%22%20-inauthor%3A%22pash%22&f=false unnumbered page,‘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), %22pashes%22|%22pashing%22|%22pashed%22+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22pash%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=mw7TT_6sBumeiAfC8rC4Aw&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22pash%22|%22pashes%22|%22pashing%22|%22pashed%22%20-intitle%3A%22%22%20-inauthor%3A%22pash%22&f=false 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.

Noun

1. A passionate kiss.
2. A romantic infatuation; a crush.
• 1988, Catherine Cookson, Bill Bailey′s Daughter, in 1997, Bill Bailey: An Omnibus, 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.

Synonyms

• (kiss) snog UK

Scots word for the pate, or head.

Noun

1. (UK, dialect, obsolete) A crushing blow.
2. (UK, dialect, obsolete) A heavy fall of rain or snow.
3. (obsolete) The head.
• 1623, William Shakespeare, '', Act I, Scene ii,Leontes: Thou want′ſt a rough paÅ¿h, & the shoots that I haue,
  To be full like me:

Probably of imitative origin, or possibly akin to box ("to fight with the fists").

Verb

1. To strike; to crush; to smash; to dash into pieces.
• ShakespeareI'll pash him o'er the face.

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