Dogpatch

American  

[dawg-pach, dog-] / ˈdɔgˌpætʃ, ˈdɒg- /

Or dogpatch

noun

1. a poor rural community in the U.S., especially in the South, whose inhabitants are unsophisticated and have little education.

   He acts like he's been raised in a Dogpatch.

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adjective

1. noting or pertaining to such a community, or a person who lives there.

   a Dogpatch hoedown.

Etymology

Origin of Dogpatch

From the name of a fictional hamlet in “Li'l Abner,” a comic strip by Al Capp

Example Sentences

Mark Lampert and his daughter came to a campaign event in the Dogpatch neighborhood of San Francisco over the weekend, hoping to get a chance to meet the Burbank congressman.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 6, 2024

The invitation to exhibit “Broken Spectre” in San Francisco came from the philanthropists Andy and Deborah Rappaport, founders of the Minnesota Street Project Foundation in the city’s Dogpatch neighborhood.

From New York Times • Jun. 8, 2023

Patch O'Furr, proprietor of the furry news site Dogpatch Press, tells The Daily Beast that many of the same people spreading bogus furry rumors are the same people agitating to ban books they don't like.

From Salon • Feb. 3, 2022

Instead of quaint Sesame Street-style neighborliness, I was now living in Dogpatch, a former dockyard where massive, hulking warehouses and factories had rapidly converted into glossy condos.

From Washington Post • Jan. 25, 2021

He let them into Dogpatch, where they frolicked among the ruins for six hours.

From Washington Times • Dec. 15, 2019