pash

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   To snog, to make out, to kiss.

   • 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.
2. 2

   A passionate kiss.

   • 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.
3. 3

   A romantic infatuation

   A romantic infatuation; a crush.

   • ‘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.’
   • Not until the outcome of Denise’s pash did I admit that my pash on Joan had been very different.
   • 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.
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   1. 4

      The object of a romantic infatuation

      The object of a romantic infatuation; a crush.

   2. 5

      Any obsession or passion.

   3. 6

      The head.

      • Leo[ntes]: Thou want′ſt a rough paſh, & the shoots that I haue, / To be full like me:
   4. 7

      To throw (something), as if to break (it).

   5. 8

      To smash

      To smash; to crush; to bash; to break into pieces.

      • Hercules, that in his infancie Did paſh the iawes of Serpents venemous:
      • I'll pash him o'er the face.
      • [...] 'tis a brute must walk / Pashing their life out, with a brute's intents.
   6. 9

      To fall heavily or forcefully.

      • ... sent a heavy rain-drop pashing in our faces and now woke the woods with rattling peals of thunder.
      • ... the rain came "pashing" down again and drove her indoors.
   7. 10

      A smash, a crash

      A smash, a crash; a heavy collision, fall, or blow, or the sound made by it.

      • […] 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.
      • [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; […]
   8. 11

      A sudden and heavy fall or gush of rain, snow, hail or other water.

      • BACKEN, To retard, "This pash o'rain 'ul backen our potatoes."
      • A pash of rain then raised it about 6 inches, but four dry days reduced it to its previous level.
      • Mony a thunner pash it's been oot in.

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