bash

verb

/bæʃ/

Etymology

From Middle English *basshen, *basken, likely from Old Norse *baska (“to strike”), akin to Swedish basa (“to baste, whip, lash, flog”), Danish baske (“to beat, strike, cudgel”), German patschen (“to slap”)

derived from *baska✻ — “to strike”
inherited from *basshen✻

Definitions

1
To strike heavily
To strike heavily; to beat.
- The thugs kept bashing the cowering victim.
- If the engine won't start, bash it with this hammer.
- It was planned that the sick men were to crawl over and simultaneously seize the fire-arms and bash us with them while the women flung themselves upon the trackers.
2
To collide
To collide; used with into or together.
- Don't bash into me with that shopping trolley.
- The bulls backed apart and ran together, tusks clashing — Ed held his trunk down while Conrad curled his high over his head, out of the way of Ed's tusks as the faces bashed together.
3
To criticize harshly.
- He bashed my ideas.
- The entertainment industry, the artistic community, and much of the educational establishment, which so profoundly influence American culture, relentlessly assault religion, promote promiscuity, encourage illegitimacy, and bash America.
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1. 4
  A forceful blow or impact.
  - He got a bash on the head.
2. 5
  A large party
  A large party; a gala event.
  - They had a big bash to celebrate their tenth anniversary.
  - The party level ramps up at Thornaby, where a gaggle of women on a 50th birthday bash join us.
3. 6
  An attempt at doing something.
  - give something a bash
  - I'm not sure I'll be any good at this, but let me have a bash.
  - This was my first bash at macramé, so I'm quite pleased with how it's turned out.
4. 7
  To abash (make ashamed)
  - His countenance was bold and bashed not.
5. The Free Software Foundation's command interpreter (the "shell") for UNIX-like operating…
  The Free Software Foundation's command interpreter (the "shell") for UNIX-like operating systems.
6. The scripting language provided with this interpreter.
7. A diminutive of the male given name Sebastian.

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Derived

bashable, bash about, bashedness, bash in, bash into shape, bash out, bash someone's face in, bash someone's head, bash someone's skull, bash the bishop, bash together, bash up, fag-bash, gay bash, gay-bash, note-bash, note bash, opinion bash, queer-bash, trans bash, trans-bash, unbashed, bash and grab, basher, bashfest, bashless, bashment, bashtag, bashy, beer bash, bushbash, earbash, kitbash, megabash, on the bash, photobash

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for bash. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA