Pash vs Fash - What's the difference?
pash | fash |
(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.
* 1623 , ,
To strike; to crush; to smash; to dash into pieces.
* Shakespeare
(Scotland, Geordie, Northern England) To worry; to bother, annoy.
*1897 , Bram Stoker, Dracula ,
*:"I wouldn't fash masel' about them, miss. Them things be all wore out."
(Scotland, Geordie, Northern England) A worry; trouble; bother.
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)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.
Anagrams
* *fash
English
Verb
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