pash

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English

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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Clipping of passion.

Verb

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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

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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

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Scots word for the pate, or head.

Noun

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pash (plural pashes)

  1. (obsolete) The head.

Etymology 3

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

Verb

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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 bash; to break into pieces.[1]

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