bash
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bæʃ/
Audio (AU) (file) - Rhymes: -æʃ
Etymology 1
From Middle English *basshen, *basken, likely from Old Norse *baska (“to strike”), akin to Swedish basa (“to baste, whip, lash, flog”), Danish baske (“to beat, strike, cudgel”), German patschen (“to slap”)[1]
Verb
bash (third-person singular simple present bashes, present participle bashing, simple past and past participle bashed)
- (informal) To strike heavily.
- The thugs kept bashing the cowering victim.
- If the engine won't start, bash it with this hammer.
- 1951, C. S. Lewis, Prince Caspian: The Return to Narnia
- It isn't the creature's fault that it bashed its head against a tree outside our hole.
- (informal) To collide; used with into or together.
- Don't bash into me with that shopping trolley.
- 1998, Katharine Payne, Silent Thunder (page 74)
- The bulls backed apart and ran together, tusks clashing — Ed held his trunk down while Conrad curled his high over his head, out of the way of Ed's tusks as the faces bashed together.
- (transitive, informal) To criticize harshly.
- He bashed my ideas.
- 1994, Nixon, Richard, “America Beyond Peace”, in Beyond Peace, New York: Random House, →ISBN, page 236:
- The entertainment industry, the artistic community, and much of the educational establishment, which so profoundly influence American culture, relentlessly assault religion, promote promiscuity, encourage illegitimacy, and bash America.
- 2020 February 16, Sonia Sodha, “Politicians should stop bashing the rich… most of us just don’t agree”, in The Observer:
- This is consistent with new research about to be published by Tax Justice UK that found that, when making the case for a more progressive tax system, bashing the wealthy resonated far less well with voters than specific arguments about closing loopholes and increasing particular taxes.
Derived terms
- bash about
- bash in
- bash into shape
- bash out
- bash the bishop
- bash up
- gay bash
- gay-bash
- trans bash
- trans-bash
Descendants
- → German: bashen
Translations
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Noun
bash (plural bashes)
- (informal) A forceful blow or impact.
- He got a bash on the head.
- (informal) A large party; a gala event.
- They had a big bash to celebrate their tenth anniversary.
- 2022 November 30, Paul Bigland, “Destination Oban: a Sunday in Scotland”, in RAIL, number 971, page 74:
- The party level ramps up at Thornaby, where a gaggle of women on a 50th birthday bash join us.
- (UK, informal) An attempt at doing something.
- Synonym: (Australia, New Zealand, Ireland) lash
- I'm not sure I'll be any good at this, but let me have a bash.
- This was my first bash at macramé, so I'm quite pleased with how it's turned out.
- give something a bash
Derived terms
- bash and grab
- basher
- bashment
- beer bash
- megabash
- on the bash
Translations
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Etymology 2
From Middle English baschen, baissen. See abash.
Verb
bash (third-person singular simple present bashes, present participle bashing, simple past and past participle bashed)
- (obsolete, transitive) To abash; to disconcert or be disconcerted or put out of countenance.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938, stanza 37:
- His countenance was bold and bashed not.
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for bash in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)
References
- “baske” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog.
Anagrams
- AHBs, Bahs, HABs, HBAs, Habs, bahs, habs, shab
Albanian
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Serbo-Croatian baš (“exactly, just, right”), present in most Balkan languages. Miklošič argued that the ultimate source is Turkish baş (“head, leader”).[1][2]
Adverb
bash
- (used for emphasis, or as an intensifier) exactly, precisely, right
Etymology 2
From earlier *balsha, a derivative of ballë.
Noun
bash m (indefinite plural bashë, definite singular bashi, definite plural bashët)
- (nautical) bow (of ship)
- center (of room or chamber)
Related terms
- ballë
References
- Topalli, Kolec (2017), “bash”, in Fjalor Etimologjik i Gjuhës Shqipe, Durrës, Albania: Jozef, page 181
- Omari, Anila (2012), “bash”, in Marrëdhëniet Gjuhësore Shqiptaro-Serbe, Tirana, Albania: Krishtalina KH, page 97
Aromanian
Alternative forms
- bashu
Etymology
Inherited from Latin bāsiō (“I kiss”). This is one of relatively few words for which the Daco-Romanian equivalent (in this case săruta) is not derived from the same Latin word.
Verb
bash (past participle bãshatã)
- I kiss.
- I embrace
Synonyms
- (kiss): hiritsescu, gugustedz
- (embrace): ambrãtsitedz, ambrats
Related terms
- bãshari / bãshare
- bãshat
- dizbash
- spribash
Komo
Noun
bash
- blood
Yola
Noun
bash
- Alternative form of baush
References
- Jacob Poole (1867), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, page 25