Pashed vs Pushed - What's the difference?

pashed | pushed |

As verbs the difference between pashed and pushed

is that pashed is past tense of pash while pushed is past tense of push.

pashed

English

Verb

(head)

(pash)

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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pushed

English

Verb

(head)

(push)

push

English

Etymology 1

(etyl) ).

Verb

(es)

(intransitive) To apply a force to (an object) such that it moves away from the person or thing applying the force.

In his anger he pushed me against the wall and threatened me.

You need to push quite hard to get this door open.

To continually attempt to persuade (a person) into a particular course of action.

* Jonathan Swift

We are pushed for an answer.

* Spectator

Ambition pushes the soul to such actions as are apt to procure honour to the actor.

To press or urge forward; to drive.

to push''' an objection too far; to '''push one's luck

* Dryden

to push his fortune

To continually promote (a point of view, a product for sale, etc.).

Stop pushing the issue — I'm not interested.

They're pushing that perfume again.

There were two men hanging around the school gates today, pushing drugs.

(informal) To approach; to come close to.

My old car is pushing 250,000 miles.

He's pushing sixty.'' (= ''he's nearly sixty years old )

To tense the muscles in the abdomen in order to expel its contents.

During childbirth, there are times when the obstetrician advises the woman not to push .

To continue to attempt to persuade a person into a particular course of action.

To make a higher bid at an auction.

(poker) To make an all-in bet.

(chess) To move (a pawn) directly forward.

(computing) To add (a data item) to the top of a stack.

* 1992 , Michael A. Miller, The 68000 Microprocessor Family: Architecture, Programming, and Applications (page 47)

When the microprocessor decodes the JSR opcode, it stores the operand into the TEMP register and pushes the current contents of the PC ($00 0128) onto the stack.

(obsolete) To thrust the points of the horns against; to gore.

* Bible, Exodus xxi. 32

If the ox shall push a manservant or maidservant, the ox shall be stoned.

To burst out of its pot, as a bud or shoot.

Synonyms

* to press, to shove, to thrutch * (continue to attempt to persuade) to press, to urge * (continue to promote) to press, to advertise, to promote * (come close to) to approach, to near * to press, to shove, to thring * (tense the muscles in the abdomen in order to expel its contents) to bear down

Antonyms

* (apply a force to something so it moves away) to draw, to pull, to tug * (put onto a stack) to pop

Derived terms

* pedal pushers * push around * push-bike * pushful * push in * push off * push one's luck * pushover * push someone's buttons * push it * push-up * pushy

Noun

(es)

A short, directed application of force; an act of pushing.

Give the door a hard push if it sticks.

An act of tensing the muscles of the abdomen in order to expel its contents.

One more push and the baby will be out.

A great effort (to do something).

Some details got lost in the push to get the project done.

Let's give one last push on our advertising campaign.

(military) A marching or drill maneuver/manoeuvre performed by moving a formation (especially a company front) forward or toward the audience, usually to accompany a dramatic climax or crescendo in the music.

A wager that results in no loss or gain for the bettor as a result of a tie or even score

(computing) The addition of a data item to the top of a stack.

(Internet, uncountable) The situation where a server sends data to a client without waiting for a request, as in server push'', ''push technology .

(dated) A crowd or throng or people

* 1891 , Banjo Paterson,

Till some wild, excited person

Galloped down the township cursing,

"Sydney push have mobbed Macpherson,

Roll up, Dandaloo!"

Derived terms

* give someone the push

Etymology 2

Probably (etyl) poche. See pouch.

Noun

(es)

(obsolete, UK, dialect) A pustule; a pimple.

(Francis Bacon)

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