Pat
See also: Appendix:Variations of "pat"
English
editEtymology 1
editPronunciation
editProper noun
editPat (plural Pats)
- A diminutive of the female given name Patricia.
- A diminutive of the male given name Patrick.
Quotations
edit- 2006, Anne Tyler, Digging to America, Alfred A. Knopf, →ISBN, page 25:
- Pat and Lou, their names were. The man was Pat and the woman was Lou, or was it the other way around? Maryam knew she was going to have trouble with that.
Derived terms
editTranslations
editdiminutive of Patricia
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Noun
editPat (plural Pats)
- (slang, possibly offensive) An Irish person.
- Synonym: Paddy
- 1868, Irish Assurance and Yankee Modesty, page 18:
- I'll do it, sir, by the honor of the Pats, just take your two good looking selves into the garden, […]
- 2015, David Wagner, Miracle Worker and the Transcendentalist, page 28:
- The stereotypes of the Irish were more negative. Irish men, the “Pats,” were seen as “always drunk, eternally fighting, lazy, and shiftless.”
Etymology 2
editVarious origins:
- Borrowed from Yucatec Maya Pat. This surname is mostly found in Yucatán.
- Borrowed from Khmer.
Proper noun
editPat (plural Pats)
- A surname.
Statistics
edit- According to the 2010 United States Census, Pat is the 36585th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 611 individuals. Pat is most common among White (30.93%), Hispanic/Latino (28.31%) and Asian/Pacific Islander (25.2%) individuals.
Further reading
edit- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Pat”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 3, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.
Anagrams
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