Meaning of pash | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A passionate kiss.
   Australia, New-Zealand
2. The head.
   obsolete
3. A smash, a crash; a heavy collision, fall, or blow, or the sound made by it.
4. A romantic infatuation; a crush.
5. A sudden and heavy fall or gush of rain, snow, hail or other water.
   dialectal
6. The object of a romantic infatuation; a crush.
7. Any obsession or passion.

Examples

“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.”

“‘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.”

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

“[…] 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; […]”

“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.”

“... the water came down with such a pash that ...”

“Labes, a great fall, or pash of rain or hail, etc.”

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