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noun

Pat n.

A light, quik blow or stroke with the fingers or hand; a tap.

A small mass, as of butter, shaped by pats. "It looked like a tessellated work of pats of butter."

verb

Pat v. t. (past & past part. patted; pres. part. patting) To strike gently with the fingers or hand; to stroke lightly; to tap; as, to pat a dog. "Gay pats my shoulder, and you vanish quite."

adjective

Pat adj. Exactly suitable; fit; convenient; timely. "Pat allusion."

adverb

Pat adv. In a pat manner. "I foresaw then 't would come in pat hereafter."

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Etymology of 'Pat'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Pat" Quotes from Famous Books

... by the enemy's which you have tasted. After you have been scared stiff, while pretending that you were not, by sharing with Mr. Atkins an accurate bombardment of a trench and are convinced that the next shell is bound to get you, you fall into the attitude of the army. You want to pat the demon on the back and say, "Nice old demon!" and watch him toss a shell three or four miles into the German lines from the end of his fiery tongue. Indeed, nothing so quickly develops interest in the British ...

— My Year of the War • Frederick Palmer

... not fine enough for them to be out of doors, Abel would play with his charge in the round-house, and the windmiller never drove him out of the mill, as at one time he would have done. Now and then, too, he would pat the little Jan's head, and bestow a word of praise on his ...

— Jan of the Windmill • Juliana Horatia Ewing

... allusion whatever to the conversation of the previous evening. "Ah no," he said, when Neville proposed that they should walk up together to the cottage before he went down to his boat. "What's the good of an ould man like me going bothering? And, signs on, I'm going into Ennistimon to see Pat O'Leary about the milk he's sending to our Union. The thief of the world,—it's wathering it he is before he sends it. Nothing kills me, Mr. Neville, but when I hear of all them English vices being brought over to this poor suffering ...

— An Eye for an Eye • Anthony Trollope

... grip o' the callan til hersel!—Think ye aither o' the auld men ever mintit at sic a thing as fatherin baith? That my father had a lass-bairn o' 's ain shawed mair nor onything the trust your father pat in 'im! Francie, the verra grave wud cast me oot for shame 'at I sud ance hae thoucht o' sic a thing! Man, it wud ...

— Heather and Snow • George MacDonald

... Hardee's and Pat Cleburne's command went into position in front of us. We left them alone till Stanley could come up on our left, and swing around, so as to cut off their retreat, when we would bag every one of them. But Stanley was as slow as he always was, and did not come up until it was too late, and ...

— Andersonville, complete • John McElroy

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