pash

verb

1. (Australia, New-Zealand, slang)To snog, to make out, to kiss.

   “‘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.”

   “A few hours later, having pashed near the bins outside a supermarket, I stumbled towards my tube station certain I had met the love of my life.”

2. (dialectal)To throw (something), as if to break (it).
3. To smash; to crush; to bash; to break into pieces.

   “Hercules, that in his infancie Did paſh the iawes of Serpents venemous:”

   “I'll pash him o'er the face.”

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

4. To fall heavily or forcefully.

   “... sent a heavy rain-drop pashing in our faces and now woke the woods with rattling peals of thunder.”

   “... the rain came "pashing" down again and drove her indoors.”

noun

1. (Australia, New-Zealand)A passionate kiss.

   “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.

   “‘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.’”

   “Not until the outcome of Denise’s pash did I admit that my pash on Joan had been very different.”

   “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.
5. (obsolete)The head.

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

6. A smash, a crash; a heavy collision, fall, or blow, or the sound made by it.

   “[…] the pash of a crushed skull, an oath, or a grunt caused by the impact of a rifle's muzzle against the abdomen transfixed by its bayonet.”

   “[Neither] the pash of a hoof on the marge, crack of whip, nor the shout of driver gladdens the quiet: the foul weeds knot, strangling the sluggish flow of the waterway; […]”

7. (dialectal)A sudden and heavy fall or gush of rain, snow, hail or other water.

   “BACKEN, To retard, "This pash o'rain 'ul backen our potatoes."”

   “A pash of rain then raised it about 6 inches, but four dry days reduced it to its previous level.”

   “Mony a thunner pash it's been oot in.”

   “... the water came down with such a pash that ...”

   “Labes, a great fall, or pash of rain or hail, etc.”