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Hash vs Pash - What's the difference?

hash | pash |

As nouns the difference between hash and pash

is that hash is food, especially meat and potatoes, chopped and mixed together while pash is a passionate kiss.

As verbs the difference between hash and pash

is that hash is to chop into small pieces, to make into a hash while pash is to throw (or be thrown) and break.

As an adjective hash

is hashed, chopped into small pieces.

hash

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) .

Noun

(es)
  • Food]], especially meat and potatoes, chopped and mixed together.
  • * 1633 , Samuel Pepys, Diary
    • I had for them, after oysters, at first course, a hash of rabbits, a lamb, and a rare chine of beef.
  • A confused mess.
  • * 1847 , Charlotte Yonge, Scenes and Characters
    • Oh! no, not Naylor's--the girls have made a hash there, as they do everything else; but we will settle her before they come out again.
  • The symbol (octothorpe, pound).
  • (computing) The result generated by a hash function.
  • A new mixture of old material; a second preparation or exhibition; a rehashing.
  • * Walpole
    • I cannot bear elections, and still less the hash of them over again in a first session.
  • A hash run; a sort of paperchase organised by the (Hash House Harriers).
  • * 1987 , Susan Scott-Stevens, Foreign Consultants and Counterparts (page 81)
    • Most hashes are planned as family affairs, with a shorter "puppy" trail laid for the children.
    Synonyms
    * (result generated by hash function) checksum
    Derived terms
    * * * * * *

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Hashed, chopped into small pieces
  • * 1855 , William Makepeace Thackeray, The Newcomes
    • The Colonel, himself, was great at making hash mutton, hot-pot, curry, and pillau.
    Derived terms
    * hash browns * hash function * hashhouse * hash table * hash map * hashing * hash coding * hash key * hash value * hashtag

    Verb

    (es)
  • To chop into small pieces, to make into a hash.
  • * 1749 , Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
    • In like manner, we shall represent human nature at first to the keen appetite of our reader, in that more plain and simple manner in which it is found in the country, and shall hereafter hash and ragoo it with all the high French and Italian seasoning of affectation and vice which courts and cities afford.
  • To make a quick, rough version
    • We need to quickly hash up some plans.
  • (computing) To transform according to a hash function.
    • Derived terms
    * hash out * rehash

    Etymology 2

    Clipped form of hashish .

    Noun

    (-)
  • Hashish, a drug derived from the cannabis plant.

    • Anagrams

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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)

    Anagrams

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