subs. (common).—An Irishman. Also PATLANDER.
1828. BADCOCK (‘Jon Bee’), Living Picture of London, 170. Mild rebuke is little calculated to cool a PATLANDER.
1836. M. SCOTT, Tom Cringle’s Log. The officer was a PATLANDER.
Adj. and adv. (old: now recognised).—Apt, convenient, suitable; timely; exactly to the purpose.—B. E. (c. 1696); GROSE (1785).
1592. SHAKESPEARE, Midsummer Night’s Dream, v. i. It will be full PAT as I told you.
1612. BEAUMONT and FLETCHER, The Coxcomb, iii. 2. This falls out PAT.
1678. BUTLER, Hudibras, III. iii.
| I thank you, quoth the Knight, for that, | |
| Because ’tis to my purpose PAT. |
1838. The Comic Almanack, 137. ’Tis a matter, I know, that you’re PAT in.
1869. BLACKMORE, Lorna Doone, lvii. You are very PAT with my granddaughter’s name, young man!
1895. H. B. MARRIOTT-WATSON, The King’s Treasure, in The New Review, July, 16. A brave bold tongue you ply for a common cut-throat. You have it all PAT.
