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pash | plash |

As verbs the difference between pash and plash

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 plash is to splash or plash can be to cut partly, or to bend and intertwine the branches of.

As nouns the difference between pash and plash

is that pash is a passionate kiss or pash can be (uk|dialect|obsolete) a crushing blow while plash is (uk|dialectal) a small pool of standing water; a puddle or plash can be the branch of a tree partly cut or bent, and bound to, or intertwined with, other branches.

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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    plash

    English

    Etymology 1

    .

    Noun

    (plashes)
  • (UK, dialectal) A small pool of standing water; a puddle.
  • * 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.viii:
    • Out of the wound the red bloud flowed fresh, / That vnderneath his feet soone made a purple plesh .
    (Francis Bacon)
  • * Isaac Barrow
    • These shallow plashes .
  • A splash, or the sound made by a splash.
  • * Henry James, The Aspern Papers
    • Presently a gondola passed along the canal with its slow rhythmical plash , and as we listened we watched it in silence.

    Verb

  • To splash.
  • * Keats
    • plashing among bedded pebbles
  • * Longfellow
    • Far below him plashed the waters.
  • *
  • To cause a splash.
  • To splash or sprinkle with colouring matter.
    • to plash a wall in imitation of granite
    Related terms
    * plashy

    Etymology 2

    (etyl) plaissier, . Compare pleach.

    Noun

    (plashes)
  • The branch of a tree partly cut or bent, and bound to, or intertwined with, other branches.

    • Verb

  • To cut partly, or to bend and intertwine the branches of.
  • * to plash a hedge
    • (Evelyn)

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