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Pat
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Appendix:Variations of "pat"
English
Etymology 1
Pronunciation
en /pæt/
en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-pat.wav Southern England
en en-us-pat.ogg US
en en-au-pat.ogg AU
en pat
en æt 1
Proper noun
s
en female Patricia.
en male Patrick.
en Alexandra Jaffe First on CNN: New Rove-linked group spends $2M to boost GOP incumbents w:CNN https://www.cnn.com/2015/05/12/politics/one-nation-gop-group-launch/index.html 2015-05-12 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. https://web.archive.org/web/20260228000358/https://www.cnn.com/2015/05/12/politics/one-nation-gop-group-launch/index.html 28 February 2026
Quotations
en 2006 w:Anne Tyler Digging to America Alfred A. Knopf 0307263940 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
en Patty on the Pat and Mick Pat and Mick
Translations
diminutive of Patricia
Slovak: sk Paťa f
diminutive of Patrick
Manx: gv Padeen m
Slovak: sk Paťo m
Noun
en slang possibly offensive An Irish person.
en Paddy
en 1868 Irish Assurance and Yankee Modesty 18 I'll do it, sir, by the honor of the Pats, just take your two good looking selves into the garden,
en 2015 David Wagner Miracle Worker and the Transcendentalist 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:
en yua Pat. This surname is mostly found in Yucatán.
en km -.
Proper noun
s
en Khmer,Yucatec Maya.
Statistics
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
Anagrams
en apt tPA APT Apt atp pta. PTA apt. ap't TPA apt tap ATP TAP
en unisex given names