pashn.1
/paʃ/, U.S. /pæʃ/ 1. † a. A smashing or crushing blow or stroke in combat. Obsolete (Scottish in later use).† b. A fragment produced by a blow. Obsolete. rare.
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the world > movement > impact > striking > striking with specific degree of force > [noun] > striking violently > a violent blow
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birrc1400
dushc1400
swackc1425
reboundc1503
pash1611
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dinger1845
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Gourmade, a cuffe on the mouth, a pash on the nose.
1765 H. Brooke Fool of Quality (Dublin ed.) I. i. 40 Harry..gave his Brother such a sudden Pash in the Face, that his Nose and Mouth gushed out with Blood.
1880 Border Counties Mag. 1 166 Black Adam, wi' ane heavy pash Bluid frae his forehead drew.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > [noun] > a separate part > a fragment
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brucheOE
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scar1698
twitter1715
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smithereens1841
chitling1843
1651 T. Randolph et al. Hey for Honesty iii. i. 21/2 Thou shalt beat ty foes to peeces and pashes.
c. (The noise of) a crashing blow or fall; a crash; a clatter. Now English regional (northern).
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the world > movement > impact > [noun] > forcible, heavy, or violent
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birr1830
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > downward motion > falling > [noun] > crashing fall
pash1677
1677 O. Heywood Autobiogr., Diaries, Anecd. & Event Bks. (1883) III. 149 There was suddenly a pash of a chamber-floore.
1781 J. Hutton Tour to Caves (ed. 2) 93/2 (Gloss.) Pash, a sudden crash.
1828 W. Carr Dial. Craven (ed. 2) (at cited word) I fell wi sike a pash.
1880 T. Clarke et al. Specimens Westmorland Dial. (new ed.) ii. 38 Amang o' t'pash ov knives an forks Bet varra lile wes sed.
1916 G. Frankau Guns 30 I hear the pash of the orderly's horse as he canters him down the lane.
1928 A. E. Pease Dict. Dial. N. Riding Yorks. 93/2 Ah fell down wiv a pash.
2.
a. A heavy fall of rain or snow. Now English regional (northern).
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the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > precipitation or atmospheric moisture > rain > [noun] > a or the fall of rain > downpour
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spate1513
spout1554
gourder1565
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deluge1720
pash1722
plout1740
on-ding1776
pelt1785
soaker1789
pelter1791
teem1793
pour1794
oncome1808
downpour1811
plash1820
slashing1829
plungec1841
dispunging1876
steeper1878
splurge1879
soak1891
drencher1892
toad-strangler1938
1722 T. Yarborough Let. 10 Nov. in Early Hist. Don Navigation (1965) 44 He said..they would have the same ventes they had before for discharging the water on extraordinary pashes of rain or floodes.
1790 W. Marshall Agric. Provincialisms in Rural Econ. Midland Counties II. 440 Pash, of rain; a heavy fall of rain.
1828 W. Carr Dial. Craven (ed. 2) (at cited word) We hev hed a sad pash last week.
1885 Q. Rev. Apr. 350 The soil would have been run together like lime by a ‘pash’ of rain.
1930 in Trans. Yorks. Dial. Soc. 17 (1989) 45 Nobbut a paish.
b. Soft, formless, wet matter; pulp; a pulpy mass, a mush.
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the world > matter > constitution of matter > softness > types of softness > [noun] > pulpiness or mushiness > pulp
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mash1598
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pulp1633
pomate1699
pulpament1699
pummy1754
mush1824
pash1825
smush1825
1825 J. T. Brockett Gloss. North Country Words at Pash As rotten as pash, as soft as pash.
1858 Househ. Words 4 Dec. 4/2 I slash at the quilled leaves till I beat them into a green pash.
1945 C. S. Lewis That Hideous Strength xvi. 434 It..plunged..into the room, trumpeting.., heavily and soon wetly trampling in a pash of blood and bones.
1956 J. Masefield Poems 347 Pash that rots, which pismires can destroy.
3. Chiefly English regional (northern). A great quantity or number; a collection; a medley. Now rare.
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the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > an assemblage or collection > [noun]
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assembly1642
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faggot1742
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pash1790
shock1806
consortium1964
1790 F. Grose Provinc. Gloss. (ed. 2) Suppl. Pash, a great many. North.
1873 G. M. Hopkins Jrnls. & Papers (1959) 233 The sun sitting at one end of the branch in a pash of soap-sud-coloured gummy bimbeams.
1877 Notes & Queries 8 179 In Weardale and the neighbourhood, it was applied to a great number of anything: ‘a pash of birds’, a large flock, [etc.].
1894 Sat. Rev. 14 Apr. 386 (title) A pash of heraldry.
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pashn.2
/paʃ/, U.S. /pæʃ/ Now rare (chiefly British regional).
The head; the brain.
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the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > [noun]
nolleOE
headOE
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crownc1330
jowla1400
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ball in the hoodc1400
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pasha1616
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nob1699
crany?1730
knowledge box1755
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garret1796
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coconut1834
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nut1841
barnet1857
twopenny1859
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conk1870
masthead1884
filbert1886
bonce1889
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dome1891
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beanc1905
belfry1907
hat rack1907
melon1907
box1908
lemon1923
loaf1925
pound1933
sconec1945
nana1966
a1616 W. Shakespeare Winter's Tale (1623) i. ii. 130 Thou want'st a rough pash, & the shoots that I haue To be full, like me. View more context for this quotation
1673 J. Ray N. Countrey Words in Coll. Eng. Words 37 A Mad Pash; a mad-brain. Chesh.
a1689 W. Cleland Coll. Poems (1697) 66 Some turning up their gay Mustachoes, And others robbing [read rubbing] their dull pashes.
1719 A. Ramsay Epist. to J. Arbuckle 118 I [sc. a wig-maker and poet] theek the out, and line the inside Of mony a douce and witty pash.
1817 Carlop Green in R. Brown Comic Poems 120 Soon she crackt the curn o' brains, Within his ram-skulled pash.
1836 J. Struthers Dychmont ii. 6 Where's Jock Arneil's lang witty pash?
a1859 W. Watt Poems & Songs (1860) 188 A grey worsit wig on his time-polish'd pash.
a1876 E. Leigh Gloss. Words Dial. Cheshire (1877) 152 ‘He's moore brass till pash’, i.e., more money than brain.
1975 S. Heaney New Sel. Poems (1990) 73 Here is the girl's head like an exhumed gourd... Let the air at her leathery beauty. Pash of tallow, perishable treasure.
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† pashn.3
Obsolete. rare.
= calipash n.
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the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > seafood > [noun] > flesh of turtles or terrapins
calipee1657
green turtle1657
calipash1749
terrapin1751
turtle1755
green fat1763
pash1764
1764 S. Foote Patron i. 7 Not the meanest member of my corporation but can distinguish the pash from the pee.
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pashn.4
/paʃ/, U.S. /pæʃ/ colloquial.
Passion, amorous feeling; a brief infatuation, a crush. Also: a person who is the object of an infatuation. to have a pash for (or on): to be infatuated with.
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the mind > emotion > love > amorous love > [noun] > infatuation
infatuation1751
case1852
mash1870
crush1884
pash1891
rave1902
béguin1919
lurve1936
amour fou1961
the mind > emotion > love > amorous love > be in love or infatuated with [verb (transitive)]
loveOE
paramoura1500
to love with1597
to be sweet on (upon)1740
to be cracked about or on1874
to be stuck on1878
mash1881
to be shook on1888
to go dingy on1904
to fall for ——1906
lurve1908
to have or get a crush on1913
to be soppy on1918
to have a pash for (or on)1922
to have a case on1928
to be queer for1941
the mind > emotion > love > amorous love > [noun] > infatuation > person who is object of infatuation
mash1879
crush1884
pash1930
1891 J. Kirkland Capt. Company K v. 57 You are just the age for the ‘tender pash’, as you call it.
1914 N.Y. World Mag. 1 Nov. 5/6 There wasn't much ‘pash’ about it.
1922 C. E. M. Joad Highbrows iii. 102 I have met such a duck of a man. You'll never believe! I've quite a pash for him.
1930 A. Huxley Brief Candles 217 Miss Figgis, the classical mistress, had been her pash for more than a year.
1952 V. Gollancz My Dear Timothy 212 It is common to make fun of schoolboy and schoolgirl ‘pashes’ and ‘crushes’.
1999 J. Lloyd & E. Rees Come Together ii. 62 Not the height of pash, sure, but First Contact nonetheless.
2002 Sunday Times (Nexis) 14 July (Features section) 4 You can depend on younger members of the house to have a pash on you.
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pashadj.
/paʃ/, U.S. /pæʃ/ colloquial.
Passionate; physically or sexually attractive.
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the mind > emotion > love > amorous love > [adjective]
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inamorate1606
enamoureda1631
épris1793
that way1865
kissy1873
pash1920
potty1923
keen1936
1920 F. S. Fitzgerald This Side of Paradise i. ii. 52 That isn't as pash as some of them.
1924 P. Marks Plastic Age 24 Let's go the movies... Gloria Nielsen is there and she's a pash baby.
1996 Just Seventeen 14 Aug. 27/1 Pash, short for passionate, as in, ‘We were getting a bit pash but I had to run home for my tea.’
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pashv.1
/paʃ/, U.S. /pæʃ/ 1. transitive. To hurl or throw (something) violently, so as break it against something or smash something with it. Now English regional and rare.
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the world > movement > impelling or driving > impel or drive [verb (transitive)] > so as to hit something > forcibly or violently
smitec1300
pashc1390
beswak?a1513
dash1530
smashc1800
slap1836
the world > movement > impelling or driving > projecting through space or throwing > throw [verb (transitive)] > so as to impinge on something > forcibly
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pashc1390
swackc1425
smashc1800
c1390 (a1376) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Vernon) (1867) A. v. 16 (MED) Piries and Plomtres weore passchet [v.rr. possid, put; c1400 B text puffed; c1400 C text poffed] to þe grounde.
a1592 R. Greene Hist. Orlando Furioso (1594) sig. Ciiv As the sonne of Saturne in his wrath Pasht all the mountaines at Typheus head.
1629 J. Ford Lovers Melancholy i. 7 And in that sorrow, As he was pashing it [sc. a lute] against a tree, I suddenly stept in.
1755 C. Arnold Mirror 18 Strait with his Paw, he pash'd him to the Ground.
1876 C. C. Robinson Gloss. Words Dial. Mid-Yorks. (at cited word) To pash a thing is..to hurl or dash it violently, from a short distance.
2. transitive. To break (a thing) in pieces; to crush or smash (a person or thing) by blows. Now rare.
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the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > breaking or cracking > break [verb (transitive)] > break to pieces, shatter, or burst
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briteOE
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to break, etc. into sherds1426
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to burst up1601
diminish1607
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to blow (shiver, smash, tear, etc.) to or into atoms1612
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disfrange1778
smash1778
explode1784
bust1806
spell1811
smithereen1878
shard1900
c1400 (c1378) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Laud 581) (1869) B. xx. 99 Deth cam dryuende after and al to doust passhed [v.rr. paschte; daschte, passid; c1400 C text paihste, passhte, pacchede; pouste] Kynges & kynȝtes, kayseres and popes.
a1547 J. Redford Moral Play Wit & Sci. (1848) 8 Pash head, pash brayne, The knaves are slayne.
1581 A. Hall tr. Homer 10 Bks. Iliades v. 84 Diomede..doth Eneas wounde, So sore, his sinewes he doth pash, and muskles teares in two.
1629 J. Gaule Practique Theories Christs Predict. 9 One should ryse from her Loynes..and pash that wily Serpents head.
1693 T. Urquhart & P. A. Motteux tr. F. Rabelais 3rd Bk. Wks. xxxiii. 282 It pasheth into pieces the Steel Sword.
a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) Pash, to beat any thing brittle into small fragments.
1875 R. Browning Aristophanes' Apol. 52 Planed and studded club Once more has pashed competitors to dust.
1886 W. W. Story Poems II. 66 Does the lupine get its color then From some victim pashed to death in the mud?
1922 E. R. Eddison Worm Ouroboros vii. 96 Here..tottereth a tower ready to fall athwart our friendship and pash it in pieces.
1946 ‘M. Innes’ From London Far ii. 82 Life in the castle was rather like life in the corridors of a railway train frozen into immobility while rounding a sharp curve and then pounded and pashed into debris in all its parts.
3. transitive. To strike or knock violently; to bruise or injure by blows. Now rare.
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the world > movement > impact > striking > striking with specific degree of force > strike with specific degree of force [verb (transitive)] > strike violently
to-slaya700
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frush13..
pasha1450
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a1450 York Plays (1885) 481 (MED) Þei dusshed hym, þei dasshed hym, þei lusshed hym, þei lasshed hym, Þei pusshed hym, þei passhed hym.
1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) I. 372/2 In the meane while the Christians..were pelted and pashed with stones by them which stode aboue.
1602 T. Heywood How Man may chuse Good Wife ii. iii Per Jovem et Junonem! hoc Shall pash his coxcomb such a knock.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida (1623) ii. iii. 201 If I goe to him, with my armed fist, Ile pash [1609 push] him ore the face.
1791 W. Cowper tr. Homer Odyssey in Iliad & Odyssey II. xviii. 119 He his adversary on the neck Pash'd close beneath his ear; he split the bones.
1840 G. Darley Thomas à Becket iv. iv. 92 'Tis most churlish To fight for hate, and pash a stranger's head Because he's stout.
1863 C. C. Clarke Shakespeare-characters xiv. 362 Never wouldst thou..have pashed that venerable face with the rude flint-stones.
1982 I. Asimov Foundation's Edge (1983) vii. 104 I held the spalp's arm..and giant Rufirant-block pashed him on face.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > impelling or driving > impel or drive [verb (transitive)] > by impact or force > by striking or beating
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rushc1440
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to knock down1653
to knock in1669
stave1837
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slog1884
to beat down-
the world > space > place > removal or displacement > extraction > extract [verb (transitive)] > strike or knock out > violently
lashc1330
pash1530
to break out1611
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 653/2 He passhed out his braynes with a stone.
1587 A. Fleming et al. Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) III. 79/2 They left him [sc. Becket] not till they had cut and pashed [1577 tourned] out his braines.
1647 H. More Philos. Poems xxiv. 199 So may their scattered Brain Pash'd from their cursèd Sculls the Pavement stain.
c1669 Life Marmaduke Rawdon of York (1843) 56 If he had light against either of them they had pasht out his brains.
1703 R. Thoresby List Local Words (W. Yorks.) 27 Apr. in J. Ray et al. Philos. Lett. (1718) 334 Pash, I'll pash thy harns [=brains] out.
1828 W. Carr Dial. Craven (ed. 2) (at cited word) I'll pash thy brains out.
1855 R. Browning Childe Roland xii 'Tis a brute must walk Pashing their [sc. dock-leaves'] life out.
5. intransitive. Of rain or waves: to pour down; to come forcefully (against, upon, etc.). Now English regional and rare.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > sound of water > make sound of or like water [verb (intransitive)] > splash
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pash1855
slush1883
sloosh1914
1581 [implied in: A. Hall tr. Homer 10 Bks. Iliades ii. 31 The stormes of Haile & pashing showers. (at pashing adj.)].
1838 R. M. Bird Peter Pilgrim II. 71 The white and sable-silvered clouds..that now sent a heavy rain-drop pashing in our faces.
1855 R. Browning Up at Villa vii There's a fountain to spout and splash!..horses with curling fish-tails, that prance and paddle and pash Round the lady atop in her conch.
1892 S. A. Brooke Hist. Early Eng. Lit. ii. xvi. 87 The black sea waves pash and push upon it.
1896 G. F. Northall Warwickshire Word-bk. 168 The water was pashing out of the broken spout.
a1903 in Eng. Dial. Dict. IV. 430/2 [Lakeland] It [sc. the rain] fair pash'd doon. [S. Worcestershire] The water was pashing out of the broken spout. The rahin come..pashin' agin the windahs.
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pashv.2
/paʃ/, U.S. /pæʃ/, Australian English /pæʃ/, New Zealand English /pɛʃ/ Australian and New Zealand colloquial.
intransitive and transitive. To kiss passionately; to engage in amorous play (with).
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the mind > emotion > love > kiss > [verb (intransitive)] > smooch
mug1890
to get to first base1892
smooch1932
to suck face1979
pash1990
1990 A. Duff Once were Warriors ix. 118 She had her arms up and he walked over to her and they started pashing. Wow. As old as that and pashing.
1997 Courier Mail (Brisbane) (Nexis) 24 Apr. I..had a bit of a dance, had a few wines, pashed a few spongy boys.
2002 Age (Melbourne) (Nexis) 6 June (Culture section) 1 The scene where Mary Jane pashes her masked fantasy man as he hangs upside down is the best screen kiss in many a year.
2003 Sydney Morning Herald (Nexis) 15 Mar. Young viewers pashed on the couch, looking up occasionally when something interesting happened on screen.
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