Pash vs Null - What's the difference?
pash | null |
(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
A non-existent or empty value or set of values.
Zero]] quantity of [[expression, expressions; nothing.
Something that has no force or meaning.
(computing) the ASCII or Unicode character (), represented by a zero value, that indicates no character and is sometimes used as a string terminator.
(computing) the attribute of an entity that has no valid value.
One of the beads in nulled work.
(statistics) null hypothesis
Having no validity, "null and void"
insignificant
* 1924 , Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove :
absent or non-existent
(mathematics) of the null set
(mathematics) of or comprising a value of precisely zero
(genetics, of a mutation) causing a complete loss of gene function, amorphic.
As nouns the difference between pash and null
is that pash is a passionate kiss or pash can be (uk|dialect|obsolete) a crushing blow while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.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.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
* *null
English
Noun
(en noun)- (Francis Bacon)
- Since no date of birth was entered for the patient, his age is null .
Adjective
(en adjective)- In proportion as we descend the social scale our snobbishness fastens on to mere nothings which are perhaps no more null than the distinctions observed by the aristocracy, but, being more obscure, more peculiar to the individual, take us more by surprise.