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Richard Glover Broadcaster and columnist October 11, 2025 — 5.30am

Does anyone have a pash any more? I realise people kiss, but what do they call it? “Snog”, I’ve always thought, was disgusting, “smooch” is too cutesy and “tonsil hockey” is, of course, beyond the pale.

Pash – on the other hand – is perfect. It’s a shortening of “passion”, a term freighted with romance and heightened feelings but given an accessible form. You might be apprehensive about a full bout of passion but you could get away with a pash.

Dictionaries regularly publish lists of new words, the latest being the Cambridge Dictionary, which has listed 6212 new words, phrases and meanings, all of them added in the past 12 months.

Most of the words, it seems to

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