noun
Meaning 1
A passionate kiss.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Australia, New-Zealand
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: snog
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
pash
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Sound
Pronunciation
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/pæʃ/
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rhymes with -æʃ
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CMU ARPABET: P AE1 SH Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
A romantic infatuation; a crush.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Meaning 3
The object of a romantic infatuation; a crush.
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noun
Meaning 4
Any obsession or passion.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Meaning 5
The head.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
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noun
Meaning 6
A smash, a crash; a heavy collision, fall, or blow, or the sound made by it.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Meaning 7
A sudden and heavy fall or gush of rain, snow, hail or other water.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dialectal
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Synonyms: none provided
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verb
Meaning 8
To snog, to make out, to kiss.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Australia, New-Zealand, slang
Examples
- 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.
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Synonyms: none provided
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verb
Meaning 9
To throw (something), as if to break (it).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dialectal
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verb
Meaning 10
To smash; to crush; to bash; to break into pieces.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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verb
Meaning 11
To fall heavily or forcefully.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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History
Etymology
Clipping of passion.
Scots word for the pate, or head.
Perhaps of imitative origin, or compare bash. For the senses "rain heavily", "a heavy rain" (perhaps also imitative), compare plash, blash, clash (“heavy rainfall”).