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patting
Variant of pat
adjective
- apt; timely; opportune
- exactly suitable
- so glibly plausible as to seem contrived
- designating a poker hand to which no cards are drawn because of the unlikelihood of improving it
adverb
in a pat manner
Related Forms:
- patness noun
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