Gash vs Pash - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between gash and pash

is that gash is a deep cut while pash is a passionate kiss or pash can be (uk|dialect|obsolete) a crushing blow.

As verbs the difference between gash and pash

is that gash is to make a deep, long cut, to slash while pash is (dialect) to throw (or be thrown) and break or pash can be to strike; to crush; to smash; to dash into pieces.

gash

English

Noun

(gashes)

A deep cut.

* 2006 , New York Times, “Bush Mourns 9/11 at Ground Zero as N.Y. Remembers”, [http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/11/nyregion/nyregionspecial3/11bush.html?hp&ex=1158033600&en=e468f88da52557ed&ei=5094&partner=homepage]:

Vowing that he was “never going to forget the lessons of that day,” President Bush paid tribute last night to the victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attack, laying wreaths at ground zero, attending a prayer service at St. Paul’s Chapel and making a surprise stop at a firehouse and a memorial museum overlooking the vast gash in the ground where the twin towers once stood.

(slang, vulgar) A vulva, pussy

* 1959 , , (Naked Lunch) , 50th anniversary edition (2009), p. 126:

“Oh Gertie it’s true. It’s all true. They’ve got a horrid gash instead of a thrilling thing.”

(slang, offensive) A woman

(slang, British Royal Navy) Rubbish, spare kit

(slang) Rubbish on board an aircraft

(slang) Unused film or sound during film editing

(slang) Poor quality beer, usually watered down.

Verb

(es)

To make a deep, long cut, to slash.

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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)

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