• IPA: /pæʃ/

pash (pashes, present participle pashing; past and past participle pashed)

1. (Australia, New Zealand, slang) To snog, to make out, to kiss.
   • 2003, Andrew Daddo, You’re Dropped!, ISBN 9780733616129, [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=HhsvaxN_VrcC&pg=PT20&dq=%22pash%22|%22pashes%22|%22pashing%22|%22pashed%22+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22pash%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=mw7TT_6sBumeiAfC8rC4Aw&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22pash%22|%22pashes%22|%22pashing%22|%22pashed%22%20-intitle%3A%22%22%20-inauthor%3A%22pash%22&f=false 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), [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=PRx_227VB7cC&pg=PT152&dq=%22pash%22|%22pashes%22|%22pashing%22|%22pashed%22+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22pash%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=mw7TT_6sBumeiAfC8rC4Aw&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22pash%22|%22pashes%22|%22pashing%22|%22pashed%22%20-intitle%3A%22%22%20-inauthor%3A%22pash%22&f=false 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.

pash (plural pashes)

1. (Australia, New Zealand) A passionate kiss.
   • 2003, Frances Whiting, Oh to Be a Marching Girl, [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=T0ozxkKHHSUC&pg=PT19&dq=%22pashing%22+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22pash%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=8zzTT4rGFMuaiAeew-CPAw&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22pashing%22%20-intitle%3A%22%22%20-inauthor%3A%22pash%22&f=false 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.

2. A romantic infatuation; a crush.
   • 1988, Catherine Cookson, Bill Bailey’s Daughter, in 1997, Bill Bailey: An Omnibus, [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=TRExeEnsZVkC&pg=RA2-PA166&dq=%22pash+on%22+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22pash%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=-DbTT4yHBI2eiQfF-MSZAw&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22pash%20on%22%20-intitle%3A%22%22%20-inauthor%3A%22pash%22&f=false 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, [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=Ez3PUVnsR-YC&pg=PA92&dq=%22pash+on%22+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22pash%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=-DbTT4yHBI2eiQfF-MSZAw&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22pash%20on%22%20-intitle%3A%22%22%20-inauthor%3A%22pash%22&f=false 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, [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=nGLtwzd2wR8C&pg=PA81&dq=%22pash+on%22+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22pash%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=-DbTT4yHBI2eiQfF-MSZAw&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22pash%20on%22%20-intitle%3A%22%22%20-inauthor%3A%22pash%22&f=false 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.

3. The object of a romantic infatuation; a crush.
4. Any obsession or passion.

• (kiss) snog (UK)

pash (plural pashes)

1. (UK, dialect, obsolete) A crushing blow.
2. (UK, dialect, obsolete) A heavy fall of rain or snow.
3. (obsolete) The head.
   • 1623, William Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale, Act I, Scene ii ↗,

     Leo[ntes]: Thou want′ſt a rough paſh, & the shoots that I haue, / To be full like me:

pash (pashes, present participle pashing; past and past participle pashed)

1. (dialect) To throw (or be thrown) and break.
2. To strike; to crush; to smash; to dash into pieces.
   • c. 1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act II, scene iii]:

     I'll pash him o'er the face.

   • 1855, Robert Browning, “Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came”, XII:

     [...] 'tis a brute must walk / Pashing their life out, with a brute's intents.