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Pat

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Etymology 1

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Pronunciation

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Proper noun

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Pat (plural Pats)

  1. A diminutive of the female given name Patricia.
  2. A diminutive of the male given name Patrick.
Quotations
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  • 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.
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Noun

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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

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Various origins:

Proper noun

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Pat (plural Pats)

  1. A surname.
Statistics
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  • 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.

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