Pash in Scrabble Dictionary

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Definitions and meaning of pash

pash

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pæʃ/
• Rhymes: -æʃ

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!, →ISBN, 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), 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

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 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)

Etymology 2

Scots word for the pate, or head.

Noun

pash (plural pashes)

1. (Britain, dialect, obsolete) A crushing blow.
2. (Britain, dialect, obsolete) A heavy fall of rain or snow.
3. (obsolete) The head.
   • 1623, William Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale, Act I, Scene ii,

     Leo[ntes]: Thou want′ſt a rough paſh, & the shoots that I haue, / To be full like me:

Etymology 3

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

Verb

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

1. (dialect) To throw (or be thrown) and break.
2. To strike; to crush; to smash; to dash into pieces.

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   • 1855, Robert Browning, “Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came”, XII:

     [...] 'tis a brute must walk / Pashing their life out, with a brute's intents.

Anagrams

• HSAP, HSPA, PAHs, PHAs, Phas, SAHP, Shap, haps, hasp, pahs, psha

• to strike violently.
  (source: Collins Scrabble Dictionary)