bash
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See also: Bash
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bæʃ/
Audio (General Australian): (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, Richard Nixon, “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
Descendants
- → German: bashen
Translations
to strike
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collide — see collide
to criticize
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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.
Derived terms
Translations
gala
an attack
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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 (make ashamed)
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 37:
- His countenance was bold and bashed not.
References
- “bash”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
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