1987,Archie Randolph Ammons, “Coming Round”, in Robert Pack, Jay Parini, editors,Introspections: American poets on one of their own poems, Hanover and London: University Press of New England for Middlebury College Press, published1997,→ISBN, page18:
The oar squeaks, adash sound like moon-hustle on the river:
2018 January 24, “Irrelevant Things”, performed by C1 from LTH:
They say that I’m way too cold, I never get tired of rappin My word is bang where I come from Watch be one work is magic Do it and dash it Smile on MAT No way this peng one acting Who got whacked and who got slapped And who got spared bydashes
1992, George Billy Nii Ayittey,Africa Betrayed,→ISBN,→OCLC,→OL, page44:
The traditional practice of offering gifts or "dash" to chiefs has often been misinterpreted by scholars to provide a cultural explanation for the pervasive incidence of bribery and corruption in modern Africa.
2006, Adiele Eberechukwu Afigbo,The Abolition of the Slave Trade in Southeastern Nigeria, 1885–1950 (Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora;25), University of Rochester Press,→ISBN,→ISSN, page99:
Writing in 1924 on a similar situation in Ugep, the political officer, Mr. S. T. Harvey noted: "In the old days there was no specified dowry but merelydashes given to the father-in-law, from 8 to 20 rods according to the status of the man[…]The dowry is made small because whatsoever a woman farms or reaps during her life time is by native custom the property of her parents."
2008, Lizzie Williams, updated by Mark Shenley,Nigeria: The Bradt Travel Guide, published2012,→ISBN,→OCLC,→OL, page109:
The only other times you'll be asked for adash is from beggars.
Sir Thomas looks as if to ask what thedash is that to you! but wanting still to go to India again, and knowing how strong the Newcomes are in Leadenhall Street, he thinks it necessary to be civil to the young cub, and swallows his pride once more into his waistband.
Comment: Some editions leave this passage out. Of those that include it, some change the 'you!' to 'you?'.
1884, Lord Robert Gower,My Reminiscences, reprinted in "The Evening Lamp",The Christian Union, (29) 22, (May 29, 1884)p. 524
Who thedash is this person whom none of us know? and what thedash does he do here?
2018, anonymous, quoted in Mélanie Bourdaa, "'May We Meet Again': Social Bonds, Activities, and Identities in the #Clexa Fandom", inA Companion to Media Fandom and Fan Studies (ed. Paul Booth),page 392:
-i hope you find at least one thing on yourdash that will make you laugh today.
2018, "notthesameknowledge", quoted in Randall Lake,Recovering Argument,unnumbered page:
i cannot tell you how happy it makes me when i see mydash filled with selfies from other folks who look like me.
2018, Krista Ritchie, Becca Ritchie,Alphas Like Us,unnumbered page:
“You wanna know what else is all over mydash? Gifs of you and your boyfriend."
1961 November, H. G. Ellison, P. G. Barlow, “Journey through France: Part One”, inTrains Illustrated, page670:
As our train to Parisdashed through the labyrynthine flyovers at Porchefontaine, barely a mile fromVersailles, the 75 m.p.h. limit was already almost attained.
There were the tawny rocks, like lions couchant, defying the ocean, whose waves incessantlydashed against and scoured them with vast quantities of gravel.
Kala was the youngest mate of a male called Tublat, meaning broken nose, and the child she had seendashed to death was her first; for she was but nine or ten years old.
The man wasdashed from the vehicle during the accident.
1627 (indicated as1626),Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, inSylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries.[…], London:[…]William Rawley[…];[p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee[…],→OCLC, paragraph 792:
If youdash a stone against a stone in the bottom of the water, it maketh a sound.
The rooks are blown about the skies; The forest crack’d, the waters curl’d, The cattle huddled on the lea; And wildlydash’d on tower and tree The sunbeam strikes along the world: […]
2018 January 24, “Irrelevant Things”, performed by C1 from LTH:
They say that I’m way too cold, I never get tired of rappin / My word is bang where I come from / Watch be one work is magic / Do it anddash it / Smile on MAT / No way this peng one acting / Who got whacked and who got slapped / And who got spared by dashes
[W]hen I draw any faulty character, I consider all those persons to whom the malice of the world may possibly apply it, and take care todash it with such particular circumstances as may prevent all such ill-natured applications.
2011 September 13, Sam Lyon, “Borussia Dortmund 1 – 1 Arsenal”, inBBC[2]:
Arsenal's hopes of starting their Champions League campaign with an away win weredashed when substitute Ivan Perisic's superb late volley rescued a point for Borussia Dortmund.
^Oryol, Vladimir E. (2000),A concise historical grammar of the Albanian language: reconstruction of Proto-Albanian[1], Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill,→ISBN, page14
dash comes in the second position in a clause, indicating that one thing happened after another. It can also have a contrastive meaning and then may be translated withbut.
