Reverse Dictionary: PAS – PAT

PASS – nouns
– LOGES a faked pass or warrant …17C UK criminals’ sl.
 
PASS (go by) – verbs
– WAIVE † to go by, to pass …1390
 
PASS (a test, etc.) – verbs
– ACE to pass a test easily …sl.
 
PASSABLE – adjectives
– TOLL-LOLL tolerable, pretty good, pretty well, passable …1797 sl.
– TOL-LOL tolerable, bearable, pretty good, pretty well, passable …1797 sl.
 
PASSAGE – nouns
– AMELL-DOORS a passage …B1900 Eng. dial.
– DIMMERY a dark, ill-lighted room or passage …Bk1900 Eng. dial.
– DRONG a narrow lane or passage …L18 Eng. dial.
– ENTANY an ‘entry,’ main doorway of a house; a narrow passage or by-street …Bk1900 Eng. dial.
– ENTRY an alley or narrow passage between two houses or walls …1850 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– ENTRY-MOUTH the end or entrance of a narrow lane or passage …1856 N. Ireland
– GALLERY † 1. a passage made by deer, etc. through brushwood …1674
2. a passage made by an animal underground, or through a rock …1849
– GANG † a way, road, or passage …c950 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
– GANGWAY † a road, thoroughfare, or passage of any kind …c1000 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
– GANK a narrow passage or footway …1819 Eng. dial.  
– GUT on land: a narrow passage between two declivities; hence, a narrow passage or lane of any kind …1615
– JACKY-NICK a narrow passage between buildings …Bk1902 Eng. dial.
– JIGGER a passage between or at the back of houses; a back entry or alley …1902 Eng. dial.
– OPE a narrow passage between houses …1825 Eng. dial.
– OPEWAY an entry, passage; an opening …1881 Eng. dial.
– PACE † a passage; a narrow way; a pass between mountains, rocks, woods, etc.; a narrow channel at sea, a strait …a1300.
– PASS 1. an indoor passage or corridor …1818 Sc.
2. the passage between the pews in a church, an aisle …1871 Sc.
– RAISE a rising passage or road …1877
– RENT a narrow passage between high walls …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
– SNICKET a narrow passage between buildings; an alley …B1900 Eng. dial.
– TALLY-HO a wide, covered passage between two houses …Bk1905 Eng. dial. ​
– TEWER a narrow lane or passage; an alley …1869 Eng. dial.
– THROUGH-GANG a thoroughfare; a passage …1862 Sc.
– THROUGH-GANG CLOSE an open passage leading from one street to another …Bk1905 Sc.
– THROUGH-GOING a thoroughfare; a passage …1897 Sc.
– THROUGH-GOING CLOSE an open passage leading from one street to another …1882 Sc.
– THROUGH-GOING ENTRY a passage running right through a house …1890 Sc.
– THROUGHWAY a narrow passage between houses …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– THRUTCH a narrow passage or gorge; a thick, dense growth of underwood, etc. through which it is difficult to push a way …1872 Eng. dial.
– TROT a covered, open passageway between two sections of a house or cabin …c1937 Amer. dial.
– TUER a narrow lane or passage; an alley …1869 Eng. dial.
– TURKEY RUN a covered, open passageway between two sections of a house or cabin …1937 Amer. dial.
– TURKEY TROT a covered, open passageway between two sections of a house or cabin …1937 Amer. dial.
– VENNEL a narrow lane, passage, or thoroughfare in a town or city; an alley or wynd …1435 chiefly Sc.
– VINNEL an alley; a narrow lane or passage …1853 Sc.
– WIND SWEEP a covered, open passageway between two sections of a house or cabin; a breezeway …1936 Amer. dial.
 
PASS BY – nouns
– GO-BY a passing by …1949 US sl.
 
PASSED THROUGH – adjectives
– IMPERTRANSIBLE † that cannot be passed through or crossed …1677
 
PASSENGER – for airline passenger, see AIRLINE
 
PASSENGER – person
– BACK-SEAT DRIVER a passenger in a vehicle who constantly gives the driver unwanted advice on how to drive …1927
– RABBIT a short-journey passenger …c1910 busmen’s and tram-men’s usage
 
PASSERBY – person
– BYPASSER a passerby …1904 Amer. dial.
– GANNER an occasional visitor, passer-by …1889 Eng. dial.
– PASSENGER a passer-by, a passing pedestrian, a wayfarer …1729 Sc.
 
PASSION – nouns
– AFFECT † feeling, desire, or appetite, as opposed to reason; passion, lust, evil-desire …1531
– AFFECTION † feeling as opposed to reason; passion, lust …1398
– AMOR passion; love, esp. sexual love
– AMOUR passion; love, esp. sexual love
– BARLEY-HOOD a fit of drunken, angry passion …Bk1911 Sc.
– BIRR force, impetus, energy; violence; passion …Bk1911 Sc. 
– BLEEZE a rage, passion …Bk1911 Sc.
– CALENTURE burning passion, ardour, zeal, heat, glow …1596
– COOLING CARD something that defuses one’s enthusiasm or deflates one’s passion …M16 sl.
– DILDRUM a ridiculous passion or temper …1897 Eng. dial.
– DIRDUM passion, ill-humour …Bk1900 Sc.
– DOG-FLAW † a burst of passion …a1625
– EARNEST † ardour in battle; broadly, intense passion or desire …c1205
– EBENESER temper, passion …M19 US sl.
– FAME a rage, passion …Bk1900 Sc.
– FANTEAGUE a state of excitement, a commotion, a fuss; a fit of ill-temper, passion …1825 Eng. dial.
– FANTIGUE a state of excitement, a commotion, a fuss; a fit of ill-temper, passion …1825 Eng. dial.
– FANTOD an hysterical passion, fit of querulousness …1896 Eng. dial.
– FOUGUE † fury, passion; ardour, impetuosity …1660 
– FUFF a sudden burst of ill temper, anger, passion …1834 chiefly Sc.
– GARE †* a sudden and transient fit of passion …1606
– HASTIFNESSE † hastiness, rashness, passion …c1330
– HASTIVENESS † hastiness, rashness, passion …c1330
– HASTIVESS † hastiness, rashness, passion …c1325
– HASTIVITY † hastiness, rashness, passion …c1450
– HEARTBURN †* burning of heart; fire of passion …c1250
– HEYDAY * a state of high spirits or passion …L16
– ILTA anger, passion, resentment, ill-will, spite, malice …a1838 Sc.
– IMPOTENCE † lack of self-restraint, violent passion …1634
– IMPOTENCY † lack of self-restraint, violent passion …1542 
– IRE a passion, a fit of wrath …1898 Sc.
– IRISH passion, anger, rage, fury, temper …Bk1902 Eng. & Amer. dial.
– IRY passion, anger, rage, fury …Bk1902 Eng. dial.
– MAJESTY a rage, passion …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– MELTING MOMENTS ardent, intense passion …L19 sl.
– OESTRUS something that stings or goads one on, a stimulus; vehement impulse; passion, frenzy …1850
– PADDY a passion, a temper …1894
– PADDYWHACK a rage, a passion, a temper …1899
– PANKIN a rage, a violent passion …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– PANSHEET a state of excitement, confusion, sudden passion, etc. …1895 Eng. dial.
– PASH passion …1910s sl.
– PURPLE PASSION an intense passion …Bk1995 US sl.
– RAMP a fit of furious anger; passion …1798
– RAVERY † delirium, raving; a violent fit of passion attended with loud vociferation …1721 Sc.
– TEARANSY rage, passion; violence; outrageous haste …1896 Sc.
– TEESIE a ft of passion …1808 Sc.
– TER anger, passion, headstrong resolution …1781 Eng. dial. obs.
– TILAVEE a sudden fit of passion …1889 Sc.
– TIPTOO † a violent passion …1825 Sc.
– TIRRIVEE a fit of temper; a tantrum, rage, passion …1813 Sc.
– VAKE a fit of ill temper; a passion, a rage; a sudden, capricious freak; a vagary; a whim …1857 Eng. dial.
– VEAK a fit of ill temper; a passion, a rage; a sudden, capricious freak; a vagary; a whim …1857 Eng. dial.
passion – verbs
– BE UP IN THE RALS to be in a great passion …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– CATCH FIRE to become inflamed or inspired with passion, zeal, etc. …1734
– CAVE to rave, to rage, to get in a passion; to be angry, to make a rumpus …1902 Amer. dial.
– CAVE AROUND to rave, to rage, to get in a passion; to be angry, to make a rumpus …1916 Amer. dial.
– FLARE UP to fly into a passion …1849 sl.
– FLY OFF AT A TANGENT to fly into a passion …Bk1905 Amer. dial.
– FLY OFF THE HANDLE to become excited; to fly into a passion
– IMPASSIONATE to fill or inflame with passion; to excite deeply or strongly …a1641
– POISON to affect with passion or enthusiasm …1893 Amer. dial.
– PUT ONE INTO A TAPTOO † to excite one’s wrath; to produce violent passion …Bk1905 Sc.
– RAMP AND RAVE to be mad with passion …Bk1905 Sc. ​
– TEAR to rage; to get in a passion or rage …1746 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– TIPTOO † to be in a violent passion …1825 Sc.
 
PASSIONATE – adjectives
– AFFECTIONATE † passionate, wilful, self-willed, headstrong, obstinate …1542
– AFFECTIONED † passionate, wilful; self-willed, obstinate …1582
– ALL HOT AND BOTHERED angered, emotional; lustful; passionate …World War II Amer. sl.
– BARMY flighty; passionate; irascible …Bk1911 Sc.
– BIRSIE hot-tempered, passionate …1825 Sc.
– BRAINISH † headstrong, passionate, hot-headed, furious …1530 obs. or arch.
– BRIMSTONY subject to passion or strong emotion; fiery …1885
– FAIRDIE passionate, irascible …1821 Sc.
– FLAMING vehement; passionate
– FRUNTY free in manner; spirited, implying the idea of forwardness; keen, eager; passionate …19C Sc.
– GLIMFLASHY angry, in a passion …a1700 sl.
– GUTSY lusty; passionate …colloq.
– HASTIF † quick-tempered, passionate; in a passion, angry …1297
– HASTISH quickly excited to anger; quick-tempered, passionate, irritable …1749 Eng. dial.
– HASTIVE † quick-tempered, passionate; in a passion, angry …1297
– IMPOTENT † unable to restrain oneself; unrestrained, headlong, passionate …1596 
– IRACUND inclined to wrath; prone to anger; passionate, irascible, irritable …1821
– MAGGOTY-HEADED passionate …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– MAN-KEEN of a woman: passionate …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– PASH passionate, obsessive …1920s sl.
– PEACH-ORCHARD CRAZY very passionate, licentious …1953 Amer. dial.
– RAGEOUS † in a rage, furious, mad, angry, vexed; violent with pain or anger; full of passion …1440 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
– RAMPTIOUS violent and reckless in behaviour; wild, active, dangerous; outrageous, quarrelsome, passionate …1953 Amer. dial. 
– RAMSTUDIOUS violent and reckless in behaviour; outrageous, rambunctious, quarrelsome, passionate …1847 Amer. dial.
– RAMSTUGENOUS violent and reckless in behaviour; outrageous, quarrelsome, passionate …1847 Amer. dial.
– RAMSTUGINOUS violent and reckless in behaviour; rambunctious, outrageous, quarrelsome, passionate …1847 Amer. dial.
– RAMSTUGIOUS violent and reckless in behaviour; rough and strong, coarse, uncouth; rambunctious, outrageous, quarrelsome, passionate …1811 Sc. & Amer. dial.
– RAMSTUJOUS violent and reckless in behaviour; outrageous, rambunctious, quarrelsome, passionate …1847 Amer. dial.
– RANK vexed, passionate, in a temper …1875 Eng. dial.
– RANTY-TANTY very angry, wrathful; in a violent passion …1846 Eng. dial.
– SALAMANDROUS * living as it were in fire; fiery, hot, passionate …1711
– SPUNKIE irritable, fiery, passionate …1822 Sc.
– TABANKCA passionate, obsessed …20C W. Indies sl.
– TANTRUMY passionate; given to bursts of ill temper …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– TEARING passionate, headstrong; violent, rowdy or reckless in behaviour …M17
– TEMPERSOME hot-tempered, passionate, hasty-tempered …B1900 Eng. dial.
– TIMEROUS furious, passionate; difficult to please, fretful; tiresome, difficult …1684 Eng. dial.
– TIMMERSOME passionate, turbulent; restless, troublesome, tiresome …1777 Eng. dial.
– TIMOROUS furious, passionate; difficult to please, fretful; tiresome, difficult …1684 Eng. dial.
– TINDERY easily enflamed, passionate …1754
– UGLY-TEMPERED ill-tempered, passionate …1890 Ireland & Eng. dial.
– UPPISH-LIKE pettish, easily provoked; passionate …1892 Eng. dial.
– WARM-BLOODED ardent, fervent, passionate …1831
passionate – person
– AMORET an amorous female; a passionate woman …15C
– AMORETTE an amorous female; a passionate woman …15C ​
– ARAB any wild-looking person; an excitable or passionate person …c1850 Amer. sl.
– BARGE a cantankerous, argumentative woman; a scold; a passionate, boisterous, imperious woman …1880 Sc. & Ireland
– BARMY QUEAN a passionate woman …1825 Sc.
– BEARCAT a beautiful, spirited, or passionate girl or young woman …1929 Amer. sl.
– BEAST a homely, unattractive, ugly, or slovenly woman, esp. if sexually passionate or promiscuous …1946 US sl., chiefly college usage
– BIG BOY WITH A FEVER a passionate man …World War II Amer. sl.
– BROAD ON FIRE a passionate woman …World War II Amer. sl.
– BROAD WITH A FEVER a passionate woman …World War II Amer. sl.
– BROAD WITH A HEAT WAVE a passionate woman …World War II Amer. sl.
– HOT AND HEAVY a passionate sweetheart …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
– LUST DOG a passionate, promiscuous female …1975 US sl.
– PASHY-PETTER a sexually obliging and passionate girl or woman …M20 US sl. 
– PASSION FLOWER a sexually passionate woman …M20 US colloq.
– SCALLY-BRAT a passionate, noisy child; a young vixen; a scold, a virago …1889 Eng. dial.
– TAISTREL, TAISTRIL, TAISTRILL a passionate, violent, or sour-tempered person; a churl  …Bk1893 Eng. dial.
– TARRAN a passionate, brawling child; a peevish, cantankerous, ill-humoured person; one who tries to get his own way by persistent nagging or fractiousness; an exasperating person …1802 Sc.
– TASTRILL a termagant; one of violent temper and tongue; a passionate child …Bk1873 Eng. dial.
– TEARER a passionate, irascible person; a shrew, a vixen, a virago …1850 Sc.
– WARM BABY a passionate woman; an affectionate or amorous woman …c1900 Amer. student sl. arch. 
 
PASSIONATELY – adverbs
– IN A BIG WAY conspicuously; to a great extent; hence, passionately …1897
– RAGEOUSLY † furiously, passionately …1509
 
PASSIONATENESS – nouns
– HEAT † passionateness, excitability, ardour of temperament …1689
 
PASSION FRUIT – nouns
– LILIKOI the passion fruit …1929 Hawaii
 
PASSIVE – adjectives
– VEGETIVE leading a merely physical existence; dull, passive, inactive …1882
– WUSSY cowardly, weak, effeminate, timid, passive …1970s sl.
passive – person
– WOSSIE a weak, timid, passive person …1982 US sl.
– WUSSIE, WUSSY a weak, timid, passive person; someone who cannot be depended on  …1960s US sl.
 
PASS OVER – verbs
– MAKE LEAP YEAR OF † to pass over …1606
– SCALE to cross, to pass over …1776 Sc.
– SKAIL to cross, to pass over …1776 Sc.
 
PASSWORD – nouns
– HARD WORD, THE * a hint, a tip-off; a piece of inside information; a password …1804 colloq.
– MASONRY secret signs and passwords …M19 sl.
– ORDER-WORD the military password of the day, a watchword …1898
 
PAST – adjectives
– BACKWARD belonging to the past, old-fashioned, ancient …Bk1898 Eng. dial.
– BYWENT † bygone, past …a1522 Sc.
past – adverbs
– ABYE ago, past …1894 Sc.
– APAST of place: past …Bk1898 Eng. dial.
– BACK-CAST of time: long ago, in the past …1874 Eng. dial.
– BACK ALONG some time ago; in the past …1923 Amer. dial.
– TOFORE of time: previously, beforehand, earlier; in the past …c1175 obs.
past – prepositions 
– APAST of time: after, past …1892 Eng. dial.
past – nouns 
– ANCIENT HISTORY the past or a past event considered as no longer relevant, important, or interesting …1838 colloq.
– BACK-LOOK a retrospect, a record of the past …1880 Eng. dial.
– DARK OF TIME, THE the remote past; the beginnings of time …1901 Sc.
– FATHER-AGE † an age earlier than the present, a period gone by; time long past …1633
– GOOD OLD DAYS the past, remembered fondly and better than it ever was …1986 UK sl.
– HAVE-BEEN something that has been but is no longer; a thing belonging to the past …1742
– LONG DAY a time far distant in the past or future ..1889 Amer. dial.
– MEMORIAL TIMES days long past …1933 Amer. dial.
– POD-AUGER DAYS older and simpler days …1863 Amer. dial.
– YEAR BLOB, THE a notional date that, within context, was a very long time ago …1997 UK sl.
– YEAR DOT, THE a notional date that, within context, was a very long time ago …1895 UK sl.
past – phrases
– BATTLE OF HASTINGS history, in the past …2002 UK sl.
– BLAST FROM THE PAST anything from the past that is now striking or impressive; originally, a formerly popular recording that remains enjoyable …1965 Amer. sl.
– WHEN ADAM WAS AN OAKUM BOY IN CHATHAM a very long time ago …M19 sl.
– WHEN ADAM WAS AN OAKUM BOY IN BROOKLYN NAVY YARD a very long time ago …M19 sl.
– YEAR DOT, THE very long ago …Brit. colloq. ​
 
PASTIME – nouns
– GAUD † a game, sport, or pastime …a1300
– GAWD † a game, sport, or pastime …a1300
– LUSION †* a playing, game, or pastime …1656
– MAKE-ADO something to do to pass the time …1897 Sc. ​
– PADDY a hobby, a fad, a pastime …L19 sl.
 
PASTRY – adjectives
– BLITZ of food, esp. pastry: easy or quick to prepare …1946 Amer. dial.
pastry – nouns 
– BAKE-MEAT † pastry; a pie …c1386
– BLANKET a pastry crust …1918 Amer. sl.
– FART † a ball of light pastry, a ‘puff’ …1552
– SATURDAY PIE pastry, esp. when covering the week’s collected leftovers …L19
– TANTABLET † a tart or round piece of pastry …1630 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
– TANTABLIN † a tart or round piece of pastry …1630 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
– TANTADLIN † a tart or round piece of pastry …1630 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
pastry – person 
– CAKEY-PANNUM FENCER a street-seller of pastries …M19 sl. ​
– PANNAM-FENCER a street pastry-seller …M19 UK sl.
– SUGAR-BAKER † a confectioner, a pastry-cook …1650
 
PASTURE – adjectives
– BATFUL † of pasture-land: good for the sustenance of flocks and herds; feeding, fattening …1549
– BATSOME †* of pasture-land: good for the sustenance of flocks and herds; feeding, fattening …1555
– BATTABLE † of pasture-land: good for the sustenance of flocks and herds; feeding, fattening …1570-87
– YARE of grass or pastures: fresh, green …1691 Eng. dial.
pasture – nouns 
– EDDISH † a park or enclosed pasture for cattle …a700
– FENCE a field, a pasture; a fenced-in area …1914 Amer. dial.
– HAM a plot of pasture ground; in some places esp. meadow-land …901-9 Eng.
– ING a meadow, pasture, esp. low-lying land by the side of a stream or river, etc. …1788 Eng. dial.
– LAUND † an open space among woods; a glade; untilled ground, pasture …1340 obs. exc. arch.
– LEASE † pasture; pasturage; meadow-land …a1000 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
– LEASOW † pasture; pasturage; meadow-land …c950 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
– PADDLE a pasture …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– RAIK † the space of ground over which animals, esp. cattle, usually move or pasture; a piece of pasture-land, etc. …c1425
– SCORE a field, a public pasture; a patch of land …Bk1904 Ireland & Eng. dial.
– VACCARY † a cow pasture …1613 Eng. dial.
– WALK † land, or a track of land, used for the pasture of animals, esp. sheep …1549 obs.
pasture – verbs
– LEASOW † to pasture, to graze …c950 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
 
PAT – nouns
– TICK † a light but distinct touch; a light quick stroke; a pat, a tap … c1440 obs. exc. Eng. dial. ​
– TICKET a pat; a slight stroke with the hand, etc.; a smart blow; a beating …1833 Sc.
– TIG a touch; usually a light but significant touch, a tap or pat …1721 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
pat – verbs 
– BEPAT to pat frequently; to strike, to beat …1676
– BICK to pat gently …Bk1898 Sc.
– PALP * to touch, to feel; to handle gently, to pat …1534
– PATTLE to pat gently with the hand; to caress, to pat …1882 Eng. dial.  EDD Wright 1903
– TIG to dally; to give a gentle pat or caress …Bk1905 Sc.
– TIT † to strike or tap lightly; to pat, to tip …1589 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
 
PATCH – nouns
– MEND a patch, repair …Bk1905 Sc.
patch – person 
– CLOBBERER a patcher of clothes and shoes …1864
– SARCINATOR † a mender, a patcher …1646
patch – verbs 
– CLOBBER to patch up, to cobble …1851
– FAKE UP to patch, to alter …1892 Eng. dial.
– GOBBLE to mend or patch hastily …1950 Amer. dial.
– GOBBLE TOGETHER to mend or patch hastily …1965 Amer. dial.
– GOBBLE UP to mend or patch hastily …1950 Amer. dial.
– PADGEL to mend, to patch …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– PAGGEL to mend, to patch …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– PAGGLE to mend, to patch …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– PALCH to patch, to mend; to patch clothes untidily …1790 Eng. dial.
– PALSH to patch, to mend; to patch clothes untidily …1790 Eng. dial.
– PATCHEL to mend clothes, to patch …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– REVIVE to mend, to patch …1865 sl. ​
– TINKLER to patch, to mend; to tinker …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– TOGGLE to repair, esp. in a makeshift way; to patch together …1837 Amer. dial.
– VAMP to mend or repair with or as with patches; to furbish up, to renovate, to restore …1599
– VAMPETH † to put a vamp on, to patch …c1430
– VAMPEY, VAMPY † to put a vamp on, to patch …1416
 
PATCHED – verbs
– VAMPED-UP mended or repaired with or as with patches; patched or furbished up; made up or composed of old materials and produced as new …1729
– YCLOUTED † patched …1377
patched – nouns  (includes PATCHWORK) 
– VAMP anything patched up or refurbished; a patchwork; a book of this nature …1884
 
PATCHY – verbs
– SCAMMY with patchy marks …1812 Sc.
 
PATERNITY – nouns
– SIRESHIP the state of being a sire; fatherhood; paternity; also, authorship …1837
paternity – verbs 
– FATHER to admit paternity or responsibility …1966 Amer. dial.
 
PATH, PATHWAY – nouns
– ALA a path, a road …1951 Amer. dial. (Hawaii)
– ALANUI a main path; a wide and frequented path …1938 Amer. dial.
– ALLEY a pathway in a garden between flowerbeds, etc. …1580 Eng. dial.
– BELLY TICKLER an abrupt dip or bump in a road or path, either naturally occurring, esp. in ice or snow, or deliberately made. esp. to divert runoff, or to slow automobile traffic …1950 Amer. dial.
– CAREER † the course over which any person or thing passes; a road, a path, a way …1642
– GATE † a way, a road, a path …c1200 obs. exc. Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
– HAG-ROAD a path or way cut through the undergrowth of a wood …1878 Eng. dial.
– HAG-WAY a path or way cut through the undergrowth of a wood …1878 Eng. dial.
– LEAD a path; a garden path; a trail; an alley …1590
– PAD a path, track; the road, the way …1567 orig. sl., now also Eng. dial.
– RACK † a narrow path or track …a1400-50 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
– RACKWAY a path made by deer in a forest …Bk19C Eng. dial.
– RAKE a way, a path; a rough path over a hill; a narrow path up a cleft or raving …a1300 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
– SITHE † a going, journey, path, way …971
– TIRLY a winding in a path …1824 Sc.
– TRACE a path, a trail, a country road …1783 Amer. dial.
– UP-GANG an uphill path or track; the act of ascending …1818 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– UP-LEAD a hilly ascent; an upward path or tendency …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
path, pathway – verbs
– BERRY † to beat a path, etc. …1382
– PAD to make a path by walking on a previously untracked path; to tread down under foot; to press down firmly and closely …Bk1905 Sc. & Eng. dial.
 
PATHETIC – adjectives
– LAME out of style, pathetic …1960s Amer. sl. ​
– PAMELA pathetic …2003 S. Afr. homosexual sl.
– TENDER pathetic, touching …1901 Sc.
– TRAGIC inferior, pathetic, no good; used esp. in a sporting context …1984 UK sl.
pathetic – person 
– SADDO a pathetic or contemptible person …1990s sl.
– TRAGIC an inferior or pathetic person …2005 UK sl.
– WUSS a weak, timid person; a wimp; someone who cannot be depended on; an exceedingly pathetic, timid, or ineffectual person …1960s US sl.
pathetic – verbs 
– PATHETICATE to make pathetic …1885 nonce word
 
PATHLESS – adjectives
– GATELESS † pathless …c1200
 
PATIENCE – adjectives
– PECKY tedious, intricate, requiring patience and attention to detail …1967 Amer. dial.
patience – nouns 
– END OF THE BEAN ROW, THE the limit of one’s patience or endurance …1965 Amer. dial.
– END OF THE ROW, THE the limit of one’s patience or endurance …1904 Amer. dial.
– LAST DROP the last straw, the limit; the end of one’s patience …1966 Amer. dial.
– LAST BUTTON ON GABE’S COAT the limit of one’s patience …1956 Amer. dial.
– LAST DROP IN THE BUCKET the last straw, the limit; the end of one’s patience …1966 Amer. dial.
– LAST PEA IN THE DISH the last one, the last thing, esp. the last piece of food left on a place; the last straw, the limit, the end of one’s patience …1909 Amer. dial.
– LAST PEA IN THE POT the last one, the last thing, esp. the last piece of food left on a place; the last straw, the limit, the end of one’s patience …1965 Amer. dial.
– MAIN patience, endurance, self-restraint …1845 Sc.
– PAYOFF the last straw; the limit of one’s patience …1965 Amer. dial.
– SUFFERANCE patient endurance, forbearance, long-suffering …a1300 arch.
patience – verbs 
– NOT TO GET ONE’S WATER HOT to exercise patience, to refrain from making a hasty judgement …1935 Amer. dial.
– OUTPATIENCE to cause to lose patience …c1950 Amer. dial.
– POP ONE’S CORK to lose one’s temper; to lose patience …1950s sl. ​
– TAKE TENT to take time, to have patience …1790 Sc.
patience – phrases
– AT THE END OF ONE’S ROW at the limit of one’s patience or endurance …1904 Amer. dial.
– THAT CAPS IT said when at the end of your patience …1965 Amer. dial.
– THAT CAPS THE CLIMAX said when at the end of your patience …1965 Amer. dial.
– THAT PUTS ON THE CAPSHEAF said when at the end of one’s patience …1968 Amer. dial.
– THAT PUTS THE CAP ON THE BOTTLE said when you have come to the end of your patience; to be the ‘last straw’ …1969 Amer. dial.
– THAT’S THE ENDGATE said when you have come to the end of your patience …1968 Amer. dial.
 
PATIENT – adjectives
– LONGANIMOUS * long-suffering; enduring, patient …1620
– MEEK AS MOSES, AS very patient and mild-mannered; quietly accepting …1860
– OMNIPATIENT patient of everything, having unlimited endurance …1831
– PATIENATE patient, long-suffering …Bk1903 Eng. dial.  
– PATIENTABLE patient …1895 Eng. dial.  
– PATIENTFULL † very patient; waiting with patience …1773 Sc. & Eng. dial.  
– SUFFERABLE † patient, long-suffering …1303 obs. exc. arch.
– SUFFERANT † long-suffering, patient …c1330
– THOLEMOODY patient …1773 Sc.
patient – person  (also see HOSPITAL)
– SUFFERANT † one who is patient or long-suffering …c1374
– SUFFERER * a patient …1809 now
patient – verbs 
– DWELL THE BOX to be patient …1956 UK sl.
– HOLD ONE’S POTATO to be patient, to wait, not be hasty …1965 Amer. dial.
– KEEP ONE’S LATHER DOWN to be patient …1965 Amer. dial.
– PATIENT to make patient; to content …1895 Amer. dial.
patient – interjections/phrases
– COOL THE BEANS! calm down!, be patient! …1988 Sc. sl.
– DAMPER IT! an expression to tell someone to be patient …1970 Amer. dial.
– DON’T GET YOUR DANDER UP! be patient! …1965 Amer. dial.
– DON’T GET YOUR DANDRUFF UP! be patient! …1966 Amer. dial.
– DON’T GET YOUR TAIL FEATHERS UP! be patient ..1966 Amer. dial.
– DON’T GET YOUR TAIL OVER THE CRUPPER! be patient …1967 Amer. dial.
– HANG TO THE RIGGING be patient …1966 Amer. dial.
– HOLD YOUR ASS! be patient! …1961 Amer. sl.
– HOLD YOUR DANDER DOWN! said to a person to make him be patient …1965 Amer. dial.
– KEEP YOUR BRITCHES ON! used to tell someone to be patient …1965 Amer. dial.
– SIT ON IT! be patient …1965 Amer. dial.
 
PATIENTLY – adverbs  
– SUFFERABLY † with patient endurance …1483
 
PATRIOT, PATRIOTIC, PATRIOTISM – nouns
– FLAG-WAVING an emotional appeal or display intended to arouse patriotic or nationalistic feeling …colloq. ​
– IMPATRIOTISM †* want of patriotism …1805
patriot, patriotic, patriotism – person
– ARM-WAVER one whose enthusiasm, self-righteousness, patriotism, etc., leads to wild arguments or inappropriate speeches …20C Amer. sl.
 
PATROL – verbs
– WALK to patrol, to inspect something on foot …1919 Amer. dial.
 
PATRON – person
– ANGEL an influential sponsor or patron …1930s US sl., orig. police
– DADDY-O an older male patron, esp. of a young woman …1940s Amer. sl.
– FAUTOR † a protector, a patron …1460
– FAUTRESS † a protector, a patron …1596
– FAUTRIX † a protector, a patron …1582
– FAVOURER † a patron …1625
– LIVE ONE a generous and enthusiastic patron of nightclubs, theatres, and places of entertainment, including brothels …20C US sl.
– RABBI an influential sponsor or patron …1930s US sl., orig. police
– TAKER-UP † one who takes another under his charge or protection; a patron, a guardian, a protector …1388
 
PATRONAGE – nouns
– ADSPIRATION † gracious or favouring breath; favour, patronage …1532
– FAVOUR †* the act of favouring; patronage of an object …1692
 
PATRONIZE – verbs
– IMPATRONIZE † to patronize, to favour …1629
 
PATRON SAINT – nouns
– OLD MAN JOSS the patron saint of all submarine men …Amer. World War I sl.
 
PATTER – nouns
– BARRIKIN a hawker’s sales patter …M19 sl.
– CACKLE the patter of clowns …c1840 sl.
– FLASH-LINGO patter interlarded with cant words and phrases … Bk1893 sl.
– SNOW JOB an untrue but totally convincing story; an instance of deceiving or overwhelming someone with elaborate often insincere talk; a con-man’s patter; strong and persistent persuasion, esp. in a dubious cause …1940s US sl.
– TIGHT JEFF well-rehearsed patter …1960s US Black sl.
patter – person 
– BULLDUST ARTIST. a person with a good line of persuasive, if insincere patter …1920s Aust. euphemism
– BULLDUSTER a person with a good line of persuasive, if insincere patter …1920s Aust. euphemism
 
PATTERN – adjectives
– PARADIGMATIC serving as a pattern; exemplary …1793
– PARADIGMATICAL † serving as a pattern; exemplary …1577
pattern – nouns
– PARADIGM a pattern, exemplar, example …1483
– RAINBOW a pattern book …E19 sl.
– SAMPLER † example to be imitated; a model, a pattern; the original from which a copy is or may be taken …a1300