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Pash vs Fash - What's the difference?

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As verbs the difference between pash and fash

is that pash is (dialect) to throw (or be thrown) and break or pash can be to strike; to crush; to smash; to dash into pieces while fash is (scotland|geordie|northern england) to worry; to bother, annoy.

As nouns the difference between pash and fash

is that pash is a passionate kiss or pash can be (uk|dialect|obsolete) a crushing blow while fash is (scotland|geordie|northern england) a worry; trouble; bother.

pash

English

Etymology 1

Contraction of passion.

Verb

(es)
  • (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 , 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.
  • * 2003 , , You?re Dropped! , ISBN 9780733616129, unnumbered page,
  • ‘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.
  • * 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.

    Noun

    (pashes)
  • A passionate kiss.
  • A romantic infatuation; a crush.
  • * 1988 , , Bill Bailey?s Daughter'', in 1997, ''Bill Bailey: An Omnibus , 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 .’
  • * 2002 , Thelma Ruck Keene, The Handkerchief Drawer: An Autobiography in Three Parts , page 92,
  • Not until the outcome of Denise?s pash' did I admit that my ' pash on Joan had been very different.
  • * 2010 , Gwyneth Daniel, A Suitable Distance , 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.
  • The object of a romantic infatuation; a crush.
  • Any obsession or passion.
  • Synonyms
    * (kiss) snog (UK)

    Etymology 2

    Scots word for the pate, or head.

    Noun

    (es)
  • (UK, dialect, obsolete) A crushing blow.
  • (UK, dialect, obsolete) A heavy fall of rain or snow.
  • (obsolete) The head.
  • * 1623 , , 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)
  • To strike; to crush; to smash; to dash into pieces.
  • (Piers Plowman)
  • * Shakespeare
  • I'll pash him o'er the face.
    (Webster 1913)

    Anagrams

    * *

    fash

    English

    Verb

  • (Scotland, Geordie, Northern England) To worry; to bother, annoy.
  • *1897 , Bram Stoker, Dracula , Chapter 6:
  • *:"I wouldn't fash masel' about them, miss. Them things be all wore out."
  • Noun

    (fashes)
  • (Scotland, Geordie, Northern England) A worry; trouble; bother.
  • Derived terms

    * fashous

    See also

    * fettle

    References

    * Whites Latin-English Dictionary: 1899. * Consise Oxford: 1984. * * * ----