Cash vs Pash - What's the difference?
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Money in the form of notes/bills and coins, as opposed to cheques/checks or electronic transactions.
(informal) Money.
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, title= (Canada) Cash register.
(archaic) A place where money is kept, or where it is deposited and paid out; a money box.
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To exchange (a check/cheque) for money in the form of notes/bills.
(poker slang) To obtain a payout from a tournament.
Any of several low-denomination coins of India or China, especially the Chinese copper coin.
To disband.
(dialect) To throw (or be thrown) and break.
(Australia, New Zealand, slang) To snog, to make out, to kiss.
* 2003 , Frances Whiting, Oh to Be a Marching Girl ,
* 2003 , , You?re Dropped! , ISBN 9780733616129,
* 2005 , Gabrielle Morrissey, Urge: Hot Secrets For Great Sex , HarperCollins Publishers (Australia),
A passionate kiss.
A romantic infatuation; a crush.
* 1988 , , Bill Bailey?s Daughter'', in 1997, ''Bill Bailey: An Omnibus ,
* 2002 , Thelma Ruck Keene, The Handkerchief Drawer: An Autobiography in Three Parts ,
* 2010 , Gwyneth Daniel, A Suitable Distance ,
The object of a romantic infatuation; a crush.
Any obsession or passion.
(UK, dialect, obsolete) A crushing blow.
(UK, dialect, obsolete) A heavy fall of rain or snow.
(obsolete) The head.
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To strike; to crush; to smash; to dash into pieces.
* Shakespeare
As a proper noun cash
is .As a verb pash is
(dialect) to throw (or be thrown) and break or pash can be to strike; to crush; to smash; to dash into pieces.As a noun pash is
a passionate kiss or pash can be (uk|dialect|obsolete) a crushing blow.cash
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Noun
(en-noun)- After you bounced those checks last time, they want to be paid in cash .
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- This bank is properly a general cash , where every man lodges his money.
- £20,000 are known to be in her cash .
Derived terms
* cashback * cash box * cash cow * cash flow * cash on the barrelhead * cash point * cash register * cold cash * take the cash and let the credit goSee also
*Verb
(es)Derived terms
* cash in * cash in on * cash out * cash upEtymology 2
From (etyl) .Noun
(cash)Etymology 3
See cashier.Verb
(es)- (Garges)
Anagrams
* ----pash
English
Etymology 1
Contraction of passion.Verb
(es)page 18,
- 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.
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- ‘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.
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- 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.
Noun
(pashes)page 166,
- ‘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 .’
page 92,
- Not until the outcome of Denise?s pash' did I admit that my ' pash on Joan had been very different.
page 82,
- 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.
Synonyms
* (kiss) snog (UK)Etymology 2
Scots word for the pate, or head.Noun
(es)Act I, Scene ii,
- Leo[ntes]: Thou want??t a rough pa?h , & the shoots that I haue, / To be full like me:
Etymology 3
Probably of imitative origin, or possibly akin to .Verb
(es)- (Piers Plowman)
- I'll pash him o'er the face.