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pash | pahs |

Pahs is often a misspelling of pash.


Pahs has no English definition.

As a verb pash

is to throw (or be thrown) and break.

As a noun pash

is a passionate kiss.

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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    pahs

    English

    Noun

    (head)