‘You gonna pash her?’ ‘We only just started going together,’ I said. Pash her? Already? I hadn’t even kissed a girl properly yet. ‘Do you know how to pash?’ It sounded like a challenge. Jed Wall was a bit like that. When he wasn’t just hanging he was fighting or pashing or something that no one else was good at.2003, Andrew Daddo, You’re Dropped!, →ISBN:
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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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.2023 January 31, Clem Bastow, “My bad trip – I met a handsome Scot with a crossword and thought it was true love”, in The Guardian:
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.2003, Frances Whiting, Oh to Be a Marching Girl, page 18:
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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.’1988, Catherine Cookson, “Bill Bailey’s Daughter”, in Bill Bailey: An Omnibus, published 1997, page 166:
Not until the outcome of Denise’s pash did I admit that my pash on Joan had been very different.2002, Thelma Ruck Keene, The Handkerchief Drawer: An Autobiography in Three Parts, page 92:
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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.2010, Gwyneth Daniel, A Suitable Distance, page 82:
Leo[ntes]: Thou want′ſt a rough paſh, & the shoots that I haue, / To be full like me:c. 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Winters Tale”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:
pash
verb
Etymology Perhaps of imitative origin, or compare bash. For the senses "rain heavily", "a heavy rain" (perhaps also imitative), compare plash, blash, clash (“heavy rainfall”).
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Dialectal To throw (something), as if to break (it).
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To smash; to crush; to bash; to break into pieces.
Hercules, that in his infancie Did paſh the iawes of Serpents venemous:c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act III, scene iii:
I'll pash him o'er the face.c. 1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iii]:
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[...] 'tis a brute must walk / Pashing their life out, with a brute's intents.1855, Robert Browning, Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came, section XII:
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Of rain To fall heavily or forcefully.
... sent a heavy rain-drop pashing in our faces and now woke the woods with rattling peals of thunder.1838, Robert Montgomery Bird, A night on the Terrapin rocks. The Mammoth cave. The bloody broad-horn, page 71:
... the rain came "pashing" down again and drove her indoors.1921, Eleanor Acland, Dark Side Out, page 197:
pash
noun
Etymology Perhaps of imitative origin, or compare bash. For the senses "rain heavily", "a heavy rain" (perhaps also imitative), compare plash, blash, clash (“heavy rainfall”).
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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.1909, Ambrose Bierce, The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce ...: In the midst of life (tales of soldiers and civilians), page 160:
[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; […]1917, Gilbert Frankau, The City of Fear, and Other Poems, page 5:
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Dialectal 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."1828, William Carr, The Dialect of Craven: In the West-Riding of the County of York, page 19:
A pash of rain then raised it about 6 inches, but four dry days reduced it to its previous level.1850, Agricultural Drainage, page 43:
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Mony a thunner pash it's been oot in.1877, William Morley Egglestone, Betty Podkins, section 13:
... the water came down with such a pash that ...1883, Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art, Transactions of the Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art, page 90:
Labes, a great fall, or pash of rain or hail, etc.1913, Jonathan Swift, The Correspondence of Jonathan Swift, D. D., page 299: