Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pæt/Category:English 1-syllable words#PATCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#PAT
• Homophone: patCategory:English terms with homophones#PAT
• Rhymes: -ætCategory:Rhymes:English/æt#PATCategory:Rhymes:English/æt/1 syllable#PAT

Proper noun

Pat (plural Pats)Category:English lemmas#PATCategory:English proper nouns#PATCategory:English countable nouns#PATCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#PATCategory:Pages with entries#PATCategory:Pages with 1 entry#PAT

1. A diminutive of the female given name PatriciaCategory:English given names#PATCategory:English female given names#PATCategory:English diminutives of female given names#PAT.
2. A diminutive of the male given name PatrickCategory:English given names#PATCategory:English male given names#PATCategory:English diminutives of male given names#PAT.
   • 2015 May 12, Alexandra Jaffe, “First on CNN: New Rove-linked group spends $2M to boost GOP incumbents”, in CNN‎:

     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.

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Noun

Pat (plural Pats)Category:English lemmas#PATCategory:English nouns#PATCategory:English countable nouns#PATCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#PATCategory:Pages with entries#PATCategory:Pages with 1 entry#PAT

1. (slangCategory:English slang#PAT, possibly offensiveCategory:English offensive terms#PAT) 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, […]

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   • 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.”

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Proper noun

Pat (plural Pats)Category:English lemmas#PATCategory:English proper nouns#PATCategory:English countable nouns#PATCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#PATCategory:Pages with entries#PATCategory:Pages with 1 entry#PAT

1. A surname from Khmer or Yucatec MayaCategory:English surnames#PATCategory:English surnames from Khmer#PATCategory:English surnames from Yucatec Maya#PAT.