Sentence:  ‘It isn't a <WSD>pash</WSD>. Nancy Burke's got a <WSD>pash</WSD> on Mr Richards and Mary Parkin has a <WSD>pash</WSD> on Miss Taylor, and so have other girls. But I haven't got a <WSD>pash</WSD> on Rupert. It isn't like that. I know it isn't. "I know it isn't".' 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  A romantic infatuation; a crush.