Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A romantic infatuation.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To strike violently; dash; smash.
- noun A violent smashing blow.
- noun The head; the face; the brains.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb obsolete To strike; to crush; to smash; to dash in pieces.
- noun rare The head; the poll.
- noun obsolete A crushing blow.
- noun Prov. Eng. A heavy fall of rain or snow.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb dialect To throw (or be thrown) and break.
- verb Australia, New Zealand, slang To
snog , tomake out , tokiss . - noun A
passionate kiss . - noun A romantic
infatuation ; acrush . - noun The object of a romantic infatuation; a crush.
- noun Any
obsession orpassion . - noun UK, dialect, obsolete A crushing blow.
- noun UK, dialect, obsolete A heavy fall of rain or snow.
- noun obsolete The
head .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Modern Britain, nation of curtain-twitchers, lethally prurient, a country obsessed with hanky-panky, tuts and clucks and wonders if Mr. Hague is having a hot, steamy "pash" with the fellow.
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It may be a rather shallow and increasingly unrealistic kind of pash, but it's still there, still cooking away against all sense of reasonable expectation.
Joe Cole has the talent and stage for a late-career flourish at Liverpool 2010
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She couldn't have been more than fifteen, and surely had what schoolgirls called a "pash" for the amiable young man.
The Gates Of Sleep Lackey, Mercedes 2002
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If one day I have not shaved -- my latest "pash" _is sure to call_!
Over the Fireside with Silent Friends Richard King 1913
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Shane Warne home amid media storm over Liz Hurley 'pash' FORMER Australian cricketer Shane
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Can NE bring the kind of pash rush Bal could? ie, will the Colts be required to keep a TE and RB back to defend the rush as often this week?
unknown title 2008
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We've got a bit of a 'pash' on Mr. Anthony, you know. "
Men of Affairs Roland Pertwee
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He was totally unaware that “pash” was teen slang for a French kiss.
Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » Common Superhero Day Jobs, Part 1 2009
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Walk until your calves ache, then plonk yourselves down on the pebbles for some postprandial pash.
Love is in the (open) air Nell Card 2010
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No amount of watching pretty boys pash each other, as fun as that can be to watch from time to time, can make me ignore, for instance, a scene in which the drama teacher puts a magic hush spell over a group of outraged parents.
Review: Were the World Mine Glenn Dunks 2010
fbharjo commented on the word pash
snowed - after a fashion
December 2, 2008
yarb commented on the word pash
A man that hath an vneuitable huge stone hanging only by a haire ouer his head, which he lookes euerie Pater noster while to fall and pash him in peeces, will not he be submissiuely sorrowfull for his transgressions, refraine himselfe from the least thought of folly, and purifie his spirit with contrition and penitence?
- Thomas Nashe, The Unfortunate Traveller, 1594
April 14, 2010