Pash vs Pish - What's the difference?
pash | pish |
(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 sibilant noise (e.g. "psshh") made by birders and ornithologists to attract small birds.
To try to attract birds by making a sibilant noise (e.g. "psshh").
To express contempt.
As verbs the difference between pash and pish
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 pish is to try to attract birds by making a sibilant noise (eg "psshh").As nouns the difference between pash and pish
is that pash is a passionate kiss or pash can be (uk|dialect|obsolete) a crushing blow while pish is a sibilant noise (eg "psshh") made by birders and ornithologists to attract small birds.As an interjection pish is
an expression of disdain.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.
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.
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)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
* *pish
English
Noun
(wikipedia pish) (es)Verb
(es)- 1606 - act ii, scene 1
- Pish for thee, Iceland dog! thou prick-ear'd cur of Iceland!
Usage notes
* Most commonly found in the gerund or present participle pishing .References
* * Dunne, Peter (2006). The Art of Pishing: How to Attract Birds by Mimicking Their Calls . ISBN 9780811732956. * Langham, G. M.; Contreras, T.A. & Sieving, K.E. (2006).Why pishing works: Titmouse (Paridae) scolds elicit a generalized response in bird communities]. Ecoscience 13 (4): 485–496. doi:10.2980/1195-6860(2006)13[485:WPWTPS2.0.CO;2