Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Slang A romantic infatuation.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To strike violently; dash; smash.
- n. A violent smashing blow.
- n. The head; the face; the brains.
Wiktionary
- n. UK, dialect, obsolete A crushing blow.
- n. UK, dialect, obsolete A heavy fall of rain or snow.
- n. obsolete The head.
- v. dialect To throw (or be thrown) and break.
- v. Australia, New Zealand, slang To snog, to make out, to kiss.
- n. A passionate kiss.
- n. A romantic infatuation; a crush.
- n. The object of a romantic infatuation; a crush.
- n. Any obsession or passion.
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. obsolete To strike; to crush; to smash; to dash in pieces.
- n. rare The head; the poll.
- n. obsolete A crushing blow.
- n. Prov. Eng. A heavy fall of rain or snow.
Etymologies
- Contraction of passion. (Wiktionary)
- Short for passion. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“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.”
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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.”
“She couldn't have been more than fifteen, and surely had what schoolgirls called a "pash" for the amiable young man.”
“If one day I have not shaved -- my latest "pash" _is sure to call_!”
“Shane Warne home amid media storm over Liz Hurley 'pash' FORMER Australian cricketer Shane”
“We've got a bit of a 'pash' on Mr. Anthony, you know. ”
“He was totally unaware that “pash” was teen slang for a French kiss.”
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“Walk until your calves ache, then plonk yourselves down on the pebbles for some postprandial pash.”
“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.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘pash’.
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T'ain't going to drain no more
wordie stoppers: without refrain: stanza on its own: lotion motion: T'ain't going to drain no moor
nanopyle, nanonize, nanocosm, ombromombo, misle(ad), nanostrobos, nanomini, peerl, serein, hyetalous, pelter, sluiciest and 43 more...
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The Kissing List
kiss, osculate, peck, butterfly, french, cataglottis, soul kiss, deep kiss, air kiss, Yankee dime, smooch, smack and 57 more...
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the first list
an immense, grandiloquent list that loads like a thousand years sentence in stone. new words are in the other lists.
ridiculous, brummagem, predicament, sanctimonious, vapid, eschew, admonish, auspicious, capitulation, enumerate, lachrymose, tenet and 1648 more...
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azd's Words
adamantine, abatial, ablate, ablative, abrogate, accretive, acromegaly, acrostic, actinism, actinic, acuity, adduce and 968 more...
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Thrown - about tossed - Words
bal-; bol-; -bol; -ble and incau(gh)tious others
ballistic, ballad, symbol, bolide, ballet, problem, ball, parabola, parable, amphibole, boule, diabolical and 184 more...
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Wilton's words
Favourite words, usages and passages from Nashe's "The Unfortunate Traveller: or, the Life of Iacke Wilton" (1594)
doit, dandiprat, weep one's urine ..., snudge, scuppet, langret, fullam, hedgecreeper, pickthanke, go shop the gander, together by the ears, quagmire and 42 more...
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the Collected Poems of W.H. Auden
being words used by dear Wystan, who had a far better vocabulary than I.
levin, gangrel, quiddity, palaver, palliardising, oppidan, phut, pococurante, epithalamium, teratoid, tautological, enantiomorph and 72 more...
Tweets
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yarb 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 Apr 14, 2010
fbharjo snowed - after a fashion Dec 2, 2008