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Patty

proper nouncommon in dialogue

  • //ˈpæti//

A unisex given name.

proper noun

  1. 1

    A unisex given name.

  2. 2

    A diminutive of the female given name Patricia.

    "That sounds like Aunt Isabel. They always called me Patricia there. Don't you think, papa, now that I'm getting so grown up, I ought to be called Patricia? Patty is such a baby name." "Patty is good enough for me," said Mr. Fairfield.

  3. 3

    rareA male given name, a diminutive of the male given name Patrick.

  4. 4

    rareA surname.

Etymology

From Pat + -y.

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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).