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
- cut someone off (or down) in their prime
- cut someone out
- cut someone some slack
- cut someone/thing loose (or free)
- cut someone/thing short
- cut someone to pieces
- cut someone to the quick
- cut someone up
- cut something down to size
- cut something off
- cutter
- cut the cackle
- cut the corner
- cut the crap
- cut the Gordian knot
- cut the ground from under someone's feet
- cut the mustard
- cut the (umbilical) cord
- cut-throat
- cut-throat finch
- cut-throat razor
- cut-throat trout
- cut-throat weaver
- cut time
- cutting