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Dogpatch

name

Etymology

From dog + patch, the fictional setting of Al Capp's comic strip Li'l Abner.

  1. derived from pieche
  2. inherited from *plakjō✻ — “spot, stain”
  3. inherited from *plakkju✻
  4. inherited from *plæċċ✻
  5. inherited from pacche
  6. compounded as dogpatch — “dog + patch”

Definitions

  1. Any community inhabited by hillbillies.

  2. An abandoned theme park in Arkansas.

  3. A neighborhood of San Francisco, California.

    • As the start-up took off, they opened an office in Dogpatch, and moved into a house big enough for their growing family in the Marina, a pricey neighbourhood where pastel-coloured terrace houses look over the Golden Gate.
    • Another startup employee, who came to San Francisco to work for an early-stage AI company, showed me dismal photos from his office: a two-bedroom apartment in the Dogpatch, a neighborhood popular with tech workers.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA