pash
/paʃ
/informal
noun dated
A brief infatuation: Kath’s got a pash on him...
- Find someone that you can maybe fall in love with or maybe just have a nice, comfortable relationship for awhile. Find a mad pash.
- Today's 10-year-olds can discover for themselves my long-ago pash.
- Then there's the ex-boyfriend, the one a friend of mine named the ‘mad pash of my life,’ which is about the long and the short of it.
verb [no object] Australian /NZ
Kiss and caress amorously.We don't even have to tell one or more of the girls we're pashing....
- ‘No, you want to go back to the bar, yell at your girlfriend and punch that bloke she was pashing,’ Adele scorned.
- It made her sick, especially when she realised that it was Drew who was pashing the unknown female.
Origin
Early 20th century: abbreviation of passion.
Rhymes
- multi-figured
- multifilament
- multifile
- multiflagellate
- multiflash
- multiflex
- multiflora
- multifloral
- multiflora rose
- multiflorous
- multiflowered
- multi-flue
- multifocal
- multifocally
- multifoil
- multifoiled
- multifold
- multifoliate
- multifoliolate
- multifont
- multifork
- multiforked
- multiform
- multiformity
- multiformly