Pat

See also: Appendix:Variations of "pat"

English

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pæt/
• Homophone: pat
• Rhymes: -æt

Proper noun

Pat (plural Pats)

1. A diminutive of the female given name Patricia.
2. A diminutive of the male given name Patrick.
   • 2015 May 12, Alexandra Jaffe, “First on CNN: New Rove-linked group spends $2M to boost GOP incumbents”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     One Nation, a new 501(c)4 linked to the Karl-Rove-backed American Crossroads super PAC, is spending more than $1.9 million on print, radio and digital ads highlighting the efforts of Illinois Sen. Mark Kirk, North Carolina Sen. Richard Burr, New Hampshire Sen. Kelly Ayotte, Ohio Sen. Rob Portman and Pennsylvania Sen. Pat Toomey to pass the “doc fix” legislation that realigned payments to Medicare providers with inflation.

Quotations

• 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

• on the Pat and Mick
• Pat and Mick

Translations

diminutive of Patricia

• Slovak: Paťa f

diminutive of Patrick

• Manx: Padeen m
• Slovak: Paťo m

Noun

Pat (plural Pats)

1. (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

Various origins:

• Borrowed from Yucatec Maya Pat. This surname is mostly found in Yucatán.
• Borrowed from Khmer.

Proper noun

Pat (plural Pats)

1. A surname from Khmer or Yucatec Maya.

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Pat is the 36585^th 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

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Pat”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 3, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.

Anagrams

• tPA, APT, Apt, atp, pta., PTA, apt., ap't, TPA, apt, tap, ATP, TAP