different between passionate vs pash

English

Etymology

From Middle English passionat, from Medieval Latin passionatus, past participle of passionare (“to be affected with passion”); see passion.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pæ??n?t/, /?pæ??n?t/
• Hyphenation: pas?sion?ate

Adjective

passionate (comparative more passionate, superlative most passionate)

1. Given to strong feeling, sometimes romantic, sexual, or both.
2. Fired with intense feeling.
   • 1718, Matthew Prior, Solomon, and other Poems on several Occasions, Preface, in Samuel Johnson (editor), The Works of the English Poets, London: J. Nichols, Volume 31, 1779, p. 93,^[1]

     Homer intended to shew us, in his Iliad, that dissentions amongst great men obstruct the execution of the noblest enterprizes […] His Achilles therefore is haughty and passionate, impatient of any restraint by laws, and arrogant of arms.

3. (obsolete) Suffering; sorrowful.
   • 1596, William Shakespeare, The Life and Death of King John, II. i. 544:

     She is sad and passionate at your highness’ tent.

   • 1599, William Shakespeare, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, I. ii. 124:

     Poor, forlorn Proteus, passionate Proteus,

Synonyms

• (fired with intense feeling): ardent, blazing, burning, dithyrambic, fervent, fervid, fiery, flaming, glowing, heated, hot-blooded, hotheaded, impassioned, perfervid, red-hot, scorching, torrid

Derived terms

• passionate friendship

Related terms

• passion
• passive
• passivity
• patience
• patient

Translations

Noun

passionate (plural passionates)

1. A passionate individual.

Verb

passionate (third-person singular simple present passionates, present participle passionating, simple past and past participle passionated)

1. (obsolete) To fill with passion, or with another given emotion.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.xii:

     Great pleasure mixt with pittifull regard, / That godly King and Queene did passionate [...].

2. (obsolete) To express with great emotion.
   • 1607, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Titus Andronicus, III. ii. 6:

     Thy niece and I, poor creatures, want our hands / And cannot passionate our tenfold grief / with folded arms.

Further reading

• passionate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• passionate in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Latin

Adjective

passi?n?te

1. vocative masculine singular of passi?n?tus

References

• passionate in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)

Middle English

Adjective

passionate

1. Alternative form of passionat

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pæ?/
• Rhymes: -æ?

Etymology 1

Clipping of passion.

Verb

pash (third-person singular simple present pashes, present participle pashing, simple past and past participle pashed)

1. (Australia, New Zealand, slang) To snog, to make out, to kiss.
   • 2003, Andrew Daddo, You’re Dropped!, ?ISBN, unnumbered page,

     ‘You gonna pash her?’

     ‘We only just started going together,’ I said. Pash her? Already? I hadn’t even kissed a girl properly yet.

     ‘Do you know how to pash?’ It sounded like a challenge. Jed Wall was a bit like that. When he wasn’t just hanging he was fighting or pashing or something that no one else was good at.

   • 2005, Gabrielle Morrissey, Urge: Hot Secrets For Great Sex, HarperCollins Publishers (Australia), unnumbered page,

     There are hundreds of different types of kisses; and there are kissing Kamasutras available in bookshops to help you add variety to your pashing repertoire.

Noun

pash (plural pashes)

1. (Australia, New Zealand) A passionate kiss.
   • 2003, Frances Whiting, Oh to Be a Marching Girl, page 18,

     Anyway, the point is, my first pash — or snog, or whatever you want to call it — was so bloody awful it’s a miracle I ever opened my mouth again.

2. A romantic infatuation; a crush.
   • 1988, Catherine Cookson, Bill Bailey’s Daughter, in 1997, Bill Bailey: An Omnibus, page 166,

     ‘It isn’t a pash. Nancy Burke’s got a pash on Mr Richards and Mary Parkin has a pash on Miss Taylor, and so have other girls. But I haven’t got a pash on Rupert. It isn’t like that. I know it isn’t. I know it isn’t.’

   • 2002, Thelma Ruck Keene, The Handkerchief Drawer: An Autobiography in Three Parts, page 92,

     Not until the outcome of Denise’s pash did I admit that my pash on Joan had been very different.

   • 2010, Gwyneth Daniel, A Suitable Distance, page 82,

     At school it was called a pash. Having a pash on big handsome Robin, who used to cycle up to the village in his holidays from boarding school, and smile at her. She still had a pash on Robin. He still smiled at her.

3. The object of a romantic infatuation; a crush.
4. Any obsession or passion.

Synonyms

• (kiss): snog (UK)

Etymology 2

Scots word for the pate, or head.

Noun

pash (plural pashes)

1. (Britain, dialect, obsolete) A crushing blow.
2. (Britain, dialect, obsolete) A heavy fall of rain or snow.
3. (obsolete) The head.
   • 1623, William Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale, Act I, Scene ii,

     Leo[ntes]: Thou want??t a rough pa?h, & the shoots that I haue, / To be full like me:

Etymology 3

Probably of imitative origin, or possibly akin to box (“to fight with the fists”).

Verb

pash (third-person singular simple present pashes, present participle pashing, simple past and past participle pashed)

1. (dialect) To throw (or be thrown) and break.
2. To strike; to crush; to smash; to dash into pieces.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Piers Plowman to this entry?)

   • 1855, Robert Browning, “Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came”, XII:

     [...] 'tis a brute must walk / Pashing their life out, with a brute's intents.

Anagrams

• HSAP, HSPA, PAHs, PHAs, SAHP, Shap, haps, hasp, pahs, psha