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Washed vs Pashed - What's the difference?

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As verbs the difference between washed and pashed

is that washed is past tense of wash while pashed is past tense of pash.

washed

English

Verb

(head)
  • (wash)

    • Anagrams

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    wash

    English

    Verb

  • To clean with water.
  • To move or erode by the force of water in motion.
    • Heavy rains wash a road or an embankment.
  • (mining) To separate valuable material (such as gold) from worthless material by the action of flowing water.
  • To clean oneself with water.
  • To cover with water or any liquid; to wet; to fall on and moisten.
    • Waves wash the shore.
  • * Milton
    • fresh-blown roses washed with dew
  • * Longfellow
    • [the landscape] washed with a cold, grey mist
  • To be eroded or carried away by the action of water.
  • (figuratively) To be cogent, convincing; to withstand critique.
  • * 2012 , (The Economist), Oct 13th 2012 issue, The Jordan and its king: As beleaguered as ever
    • The king is running out of ideas as well as cash. His favourite shock-absorbing tactic—to blame his governments and sack his prime ministers—hardly washes .
  • To bear without injury the operation of being washed.
  • To be wasted or worn away by the action of water, as by a running or overflowing stream, or by the dashing of the sea; said of road, a beach, etc.
  • To cover with a thin or watery coat of colour; to tint lightly and thinly.
  • To overlay with a thin coat of metal.
    • steel washed with silver

    Usage notes

    In older works and possibly still in some dialects, wesh'' and ''woosh'' may be found as past tense forms. ''Washen may be found as a past participle.

    Derived terms

    * dishwasher * jetwash * wash away * wash down * washed up / all washed up * washer * wash off * wash one's hands of * wash out * wash over * wash up

    Noun

    (washes)
  • The process or an instance of washing or being washed by water or other liquid.
    • I'm going to have a quick wash before coming to bed.
    My jacket needs a wash .
  • A liquid used for washing.
  • The quantity of clothes washed at a time.
    • There's a lot in that wash : maybe you should split it into two piles.
  • (arts) A smooth and translucent .
  • The sound of breaking of the seas, e.g., on the shore.
    • I could hear the wash of the wave.
  • The wake of a moving ship.
    • The ship left a big wash
    Sail away from the wash to avoid rocking the boat.
  • The turbulence left in the air by a moving airplane.
  • A lotion or other liquid with medicinal or hygienic properties.
    • mouth wash
    hand wash
  • Ground washed away to the sea or a river.
  • * Mortimer
    • The wash of pastures, fields, commons, and roads, where rain water hath a long time settled.
  • A piece of ground washed by the action of water, or sometimes covered and sometimes left dry; the shallowest part of a river, or arm of the sea; also, a bog; a marsh.
  • * Shakespeare
    • These Lincoln washes have devoured them.
  • A shallow body of water.
  • In arid and semi-arid regions, the normally dry bed of an intermittent or ephemeral stream; an arroyo or wadi.
  • * 1997 , Stanley Desmond Smith, et al. Physiological Ecology of North American Desert Plants, Nature
    • In some desert-wash systems (which have been termed “xero-riparian”)
  • * 1999 , Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, A Natural History of the Sonoran Desert
    • ... though the wash may carry surface water for only a few hours a year.
  • * 2005 , Le Hayes, Pilgrims in the Desert: The Early History of the East Mojave Desert
    • Rock Spring Wash' continues a short distance then joins Watson '''Wash'''. Water from Rock Spring comes out of the boulder strewn ' wash and disappears into the sand
  • An situation in which losses and gains or advantages and disadvantages are equivalent; a situation in which there is no net change.
  • * 2003 , David Brenner, I Think There's a Terrorist in My Soup , page 100:
    • I knew that for every vote I cast for, say, the Republicans, some kid at a polling place nearby was casting his votes for the Democrats, so it was probably a wash or close to it.
  • Waste liquid, the refuse of food, the collection from washed dishes, etc., from a kitchen, often used as food for pigs; pigwash.
    • (Shakespeare)
  • In distilling, the fermented wort before the spirit is extracted.
  • A mixture of dunder, molasses, water, and scummings, used in the West Indies for distillation.
  • A thin coat of metal laid on anything for beauty or preservation.
  • (nautical) The blade of an oar.
  • The backward current or disturbed water caused by the action of oars, or of a steamer's screw or paddles, etc.
  • Ten strikes, or bushels, of oysters.

    • Derived terms

    * backwash * come out in the wash * car wash * mouthwash * wash and brushup * wash sale * washout * whitewash

    Anagrams

    * *

    See also

    * WASH (Water, Sanitation and Hygiene) 1000 English basic words

    pashed

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (pash)

    • Anagrams

    * *

    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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