What does "pat" mean?
Pat: A light, quik blow or stroke with the fingers or hand; a tap.
Additional senses
- 2.A small mass, as of butter, shaped by pats. It looked like a tessellated work of pats of butter. Dickens.
- 3.Exactly suitable; fit; convenient; timely. "Pat allusion." Barrow.
- 4.In a pat manner. I foresaw then 't would come in pat hereafter. Sterne.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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